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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:58:33 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
> > Although they are somewhat unappealing to me on the big food level. Most of
> > what is on the menu is what I would term as big food because they give you
> > mammoth proportions of everything! So perhaps the prices themselves are not
> > less than Red Robin, you do get a huge amount of food that you could easily
> > split two or three ways if so inclined.
>
> We usually run into places like that when we're on vacation. We're in
> an unfamiliar place, traveling around - staying in a different motel
> almost every night (so no desire to take leftovers with us) and most
> likely will never make a return visit there. Portions are so huge
> that we would have split it had we known before hand how much they put
> on the plate. We can only look at all that food in amazement and say
> "no wonder Americans are fat".

Is it perfectly acceptable in US restaurants, to order only one
portion to share between 2 or 3 occupying a table? Or is this
restricted to a certain class of eatery?

Janet UK