Restaurant woes

Apparently we're going to Ruby Tuesday with boyfriend's family tomorrow for lunch. I went online to look up the menu and try to decide the best options, and I found that they don't list protein. It's better than the last place we went with them (Longhorn, whose website didn't list protein OR fiber), but still...is it too much to ask that restaurants post ALL their nutritional information online? How can they expect people to make good choices if they don't have all the information they need in order to decide? Sure, I know grilled chicken is better than fried, and that tomato sauces are better than cream sauces, but it would still be nice if I could calculate the points for each option I'm considering.

Everyone criticizes fast food places for having terrible food, but I have yet to go on one of their sites and not found their entire menu's nutritional information. Some even have interactive menus where you can choose all the different foods you're going to get, and it calculates the information for everything in your basket. How come fast food places can help you make good (or at least decent-ish) choices but restaurants can't?


My boyfriend says I'm being ridiculous because I could just go to the waiter tomorrow and ask for the complete information. But I'm not good at that. Like I said yesterday, it was a huge step to ask for sf powder instead of syrup, and the week before was the first time I had ever ordered sf/ff anything because I always felt like the cashier was looking at me and thinking, "Really? You think that's going to be enough to lose weight, fattie?"


Yes, I'm being ridiculous with that last part (because even if they are thinking it, who cares?), but I still don't feel comfortable asking for that information when I'm out with his parents and two other people I have only met once. I only just told them I was on WW yesterday, and that's because they were talking about ways his brother could lose weight (he's 15-20 pounds away from being able to join the navy). I don't want to be the annoying person who makes everyone wait to order because she has to pull out her calculator and figure out the points. I would rather go online and figure it out beforehand.


I eventually found the information that I needed (I had to go to several different sites and trust that their information was correct). It just really hurt that my boyfriend, who's constantly complaining about things I think are stupid, would tell me I was being unreasonable for wanting restaurants to post all that info online.