{"id":56,"date":"2007-10-19T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/12-things-to-think-about-when-eating-out-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:14:29","slug":"12-things-to-think-about-when-eating-out-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/12-things-to-think-about-when-eating-out-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Things to Think about when Eating Out in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>12 things to think about when planning to eat out in the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>>> Does the restaurant use organic \/ local \/ fair trade produce?  <strong>Do you care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>>> Fast food is full of salt, sugar and fats \u2013 often twice the recommended daily amount.  <strong>Eat sparingly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>>> Is the food cooked fresh or microwaved?  <strong>Does it bother you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>>> Are you looking for sparkling crystal and starched linen or plastic beakers and formica tables?  <strong>Or something in between?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>>> The average restaurant meal contains well over 1,000 calories.  Without wine!<\/p>\n<p>>> New restaurants often have special deals to lure customers in.<\/p>\n<p>>> <strong>Many burgers contain 48% chicken, water, beef fat, beef heart, rusk, starch, onion, salt, spices hydrolysed vegetable protein, etc \u2013 but no beef!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>>> Is the restaurant child-friendly?  Good if you have children but could be a no-no for adults seeking a quiet venue.<\/p>\n<p>>> Seasonal foods have better flavour \u2013 and are more ethical.<\/p>\n<p>>> Check your local paper for restaurants offering money-off or free wine coupons.  Or, if you\u2019re a parent \u2013 \u2018children eat free\u2019 offers.<\/p>\n<p>>> Mark-up on wines can be as much as 400%.<\/p>\n<p>>> <strong>Service charges are discretionary.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 things to think about when planning to eat out in the UK >> Does the restaurant use organic \/ local \/ fair trade produce? Do you care? >> Fast food is full of salt, sugar and fats \u2013 often twice the recommended daily amount. Eat sparingly. >> Is the food cooked fresh or microwaved?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/12-things-to-think-about-when-eating-out-in-the-uk\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}