Comments on: Fired Up Friday – Limited Drink Options at Restaurants

By: David B

David B — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:17:09 +0000

I have a pet peeve about places that offer diet soda, but don’t offer a sugar free caffeine free choice. A solution is to order water and buy the powder individual packets to add at the supermarket.

By: Need A Nap2

Need A Nap2 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:38:49 +0000

Our oldest daughter (age 9) is T1. Before she was diagnosed, I noticed Fazoli’s has diet Minute Maid Lemonade and some McDonald’s have the diet MM Lemonade too. But the McD varies a lot, it would be nice if they would standardize. Most Chick-Fil-A’s have expanded to having caffeine free Diet Coke (what I drink most of the time), Diet Coke, and Coke Zero (though if you don’t like cola that doesn’t help at all!). I wish there were more choices! She’d probably like diet orange too.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:44:19 +0000

I feel the same way you do but having managed various convenient stores for years I understand. The diet sodas are more short dated than the regular. Look at them in the cases and you can see that. If the resturant does not sell the diet soda it will go bad and they will lose money. However, I feel that more people are diet conscious and would drink diet if it were offered, just to save calories.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:21:18 +0000

I don’t think you are over-reacting. As I was reading the post, I didn’t understand the point of people saying you shouldn’t eat there if you want a diet soda because you already stated they had diet sode (although no depth in options). I’m so conditioned to appreciate the need/desire to minimize carbs, the point of eating a completely healthy meal was lost on me. Of course it would be nice to have a longer list of options. What I think is great is that there are places that offer what you are looking for so you can decide which places to patronize, albeit, it seems the list is unfortunately short.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:45:25 +0000

This has always bugged me, too. What’s worse, there are so many “fine dining” restaurants that have three choices for a diabetic: water (ick with a meal), diet cola (coke, pepsi), or booze. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, they’ll have unsweetened tea. So, if you want a non-caffinated, non-alcoholic drink, you’re stuck with water. It drives me bonkers!

By: Cara

Cara — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:31:00 +0000

I like Sonic. Diet Limeaide. Yummy. I also love Chick-fil-a because of the lemonade and dt. dr. pepper. Zaxby’s chicken also has the lemonade too.
I usually get unsweet tea (I don’t like diet coke) or ice and I bring my own.
I go back and forth. More options would be nice…but how many more? I’d settle for 1 more. Places like Sonic, Zaxby’s, and Chick-fil-a usually do it for me in cases like that.
(Oh and I’ve gotten the weirdest looks for ordering a root beer float w/ diet root beer at A&W; I’m w/ you, less insulin the better.)