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title: "Are Restaurants Getting Healthier?"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/2d458499-5629-435e-b628-579fc6d1a7ca
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/are-restaurants-getting-healthier-2707706
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2018-08-30T16:11:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:08:29.332Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/1eae420b8af2df85975e0d8594c3269f7691.jpg
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# Are Restaurants Getting Healthier?

**TL;DR:** QSR Magazine examines the restaurant industry's progress toward healthier offerings, finding significant strides despite nutrition not being the primary concern. The industry has been repositioning to accommodate health-conscious consumers since McDonald's retired its Super Size option in 2004.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-08-30. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/are-restaurants-getting-healthier-2707706).*

## Story

Ever since *Super Size Me* inspired McDonald’s to retire its Super Size option back in 2004, the restaurant industry has been actively repositioning to accommodate an increasingly health-conscious generation of consumers. But have restaurants actually gotten any healthier?

That’s the question QSR Magazine asks in a recent article that seeks to take stock of the restaurant industry’s advances toward healthier offerings. The article looks at the issue from multiple angles, including how the wage gap affects eating habits, the operational burdens of serving healthier food, the rise of veggie burgers and the increasing availability of nutrition information.

Overall, the article finds that while nutrition is not the driving concern that it was a decade ago, the industry continues to make significant strides toward healthier menus.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- QSR Magazine (publication)
- McDonald's (company)
- restaurant industry (topic)
- nutrition information (topic)
- healthier menus (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/are-restaurants-getting-healthier-2707706). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/2d458499-5629-435e-b628-579fc6d1a7ca).