“Dine with us, We keep you skinny!”

You may be correct on the definition of full-service restaurants. I assumed they meant a restaurant where you sit down and someone serves you, the food requires waiting longer than 5 minutes, etc. I guess the restaurants you’re talking about keep you skinny cause you can’t afford to eat enough to get fat.

Cheers
Scott

I agree with primalman08. I’ll bet you do, too.

And I thought it was rather interesting that when I was reading the excerpt in your post, my idea of full-service restaurant, perhaps erroneously, didn’t include Olive Garden and Chili’s (mentally, I lumped this type of chain in with fast food chains).

When I think of full-service restaurant I guess I tend to picture fine dining establishments, with the foods, especially sauces and dressings, made from scratch. The portions aren’t large, but they are usually freshly prepared and not from Sysco containers. In my region those kinds of fine dining restaurants are definitely denser in the really affluent communities (like La Jolla, where the rich ladies are much skinnier than even the middle class communities).