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04-28-2006, 05:56 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Up in the Rockies
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I received treatment at a Bostons (pizza, pasta, beer) that was really nice a few weeks back. I'm a new Type 1 and getting pretty confident carb counting, and smart enough to look for the nutrition guide at fast food places and chain restaraunts. I also look on the Web before we go out, if I'm together enough. Well, we went out to a Bostons, and I had not checked the web. When we ordered I asked our waitress if they had a nutrition guide, and she said she'd check. As our meals got closer to arriving we still didn't have any info. so I went asked the manager - I mentioned I was diabetic - and he promptly had the assistant manager check, and they printed a guide off the web and delivered it to our table! Maybe they just didn't want a diabetic having a super-low in their establishment (I'm a cynic) but I'd like to think they were nicely curteous and customer focussed! I tipped nicely and didn't even leave my syringe wrapped up in the napkin (just kidding). Kudos - to Bostons!
Joe
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04-28-2006, 04:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: CT
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| | I haven't heard of Bostons  , but I will be checking to see if there's one in my area now that I know how attentive they are to their customer's needs. Thanks for the review 
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04-28-2006, 10:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Canada, ontario
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| | | must be an american restaurant..dont have them here in canada =[ |
04-29-2006, 05:12 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Victoria, BC
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Originally Posted by psilocybin must be an american restaurant..dont have them here in canada =[ | Actually, I remember Boston's pizza from my university days in Canada. It is the chain that has the cheese under the other toppings, if I remeber correctly.
Happy that you had good service there!!
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04-29-2006, 03:59 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Paradise, NV
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| | | Getting the nutritional guides at restaurants is rather hit-and-miss. I was in Pahrump (hick town about 70 miles outside of Vegas with brothels) for work a few weeks back. Their KFC had no nutritional guides, and their McDonalds only had the Spanish version. That town is almost completely lily-white, so they had tons of the Espanol guides left. It took a bit of work to figure which thing was which. And of course, I couldn't get any of the newer chicken sandwiches on the menu, unless I "guessed" that they'd be the same as a similarly sized burger.
What I do now is use my PDA. There's a few websites out there that will give you the carb counts in plain HTML. Some of the restaurants' own websites will give it to me in a font so small my smartphone can't show it in a readable manner.
In-N-Out Burger is the best for a diabetic. There's only about four things on the menu, they all taste great. You know how much carbs are in anything, so long as you didn't do a weird custom order (four by four or a lettuce bun thing).  |
04-30-2006, 10:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Canada, ontario
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Cate Actually, I remember Boston's pizza from my university days in Canada. It is the chain that has the cheese under the other toppings, if I remeber correctly.
Happy that you had good service there!! | ya we do have boston pizzas i didnt tthink it was the same as bostons
i go to boston pizza regularly, they have a nice nutritional guide sheet available...one of the ones here actually has gl for some things |
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