Table 1.
Kilocalorie content of dishes from eligible restaurant chains included in analyses
| Restaurant type | Restaurant chain name | N | Starters | Sides | Desserts | |||
| Number | Mean (SD) kcals | Number | Mean (SD) kcal | Number | Mean (SD) kcals | |||
| Fast-food | Burger King | 39 | – | N/A | 19 | 332.1 (136.7) | 20 | 311.5 (153.4) |
| KFC | 83 | – | N/A | 73 | 562.9 (240.1) | 10 | 309.5 (81.1) | |
| Leon | 25 | – | N/A | 10 | 209.3 (65.0) | 15 | 270.0 (81.0) | |
| McDonalds | 23 | – | N/A | 6 | 216.3 (167.1) | 17 | 242.0 (115.5) | |
| Subway | 5 | – | N/A | 1 | 705.0 (–) | 4 | 213.8 (2.2) | |
| Wimpy | 20 | – | N/A | 12 | 282.2 (168.8) | 8 | 456.3 (230.2) | |
| All fast-food restaurants (n=6)* | 195 | – | N/A | 121 | 453.6 (249.7) | 74 | 297.2 (142.4) | |
| n (%)>600 kcal† | –(N/A) | 40 (33.1) | 3 (4.1) | |||||
| Full-service | All bar one | 11 | – | N/A | 6 | 447.7 (140.0) | 5 | 587.2 (222.6) |
| Ask | 89 | 27 | 565.7 (278.0) | 9 | 315.2 (336.1) | 53 | 273.2 (137.3) | |
| Bills | 33 | 19 | 318.9 (123.4) | 5 | 265.4 (161.7) | 9 | 535.4 (298.2) | |
| Chef and Brewer | 39 | 8 | 481.1 (124.8) | 13 | 302.6 (213.4) | 18 | 486.1 (300.3) | |
| Ember Inns | 29 | 7 | 307.6 (102.9) | 8 | 206.1 (135.2) | 14 | 522.2 (135.1) | |
| Flaming Grill | 26 | 4 | 644.8 (111.4) | 14 | 459.4 (233.9) | 8 | 767.1 (343.7) | |
| Harvester | 34 | 14 | 424.5 (119.2) | 9 | 254.0 (148.7) | 11 | 670.9 (156.2) | |
| Hungry horse | 44 | 18 | 660.2 (247.5) | 16 | 454.3 (280.0) | 10 | 867.9 (517.6) | |
| JD Wetherspoon | 24 | – | N/A | 14 | 406.1 (325.9) | 10 | 571.3 (169.3) | |
| Nando’s | 40 | 6 | 486.0 (265.5) | 24 | 365.0 (320.7) | 10 | 330.0 (217.4) | |
| Old English Inn | 87 | 11 | 433.5 (199.6) | 10 | 364.4 (209.4) | 66 | 408.3 (141.5) | |
| Pizza Express | 49 | 11 | 379.5 (196.4) | 3 | 328.7 (126.0) | 35 | 467.8 (97.9) | |
| Pizza Hut | 18 | 11 | 463.6 (107.7) | 4 | 412.5 (158.2) | 3 | 624.7 (82.7) | |
| Sizzling Pubs | 36 | 13 | 477.7 (167.0) | 10 | 391.6 (227.4) | 13 | 723.5 (210.8) | |
| Slug and Lettuce | 17 | – | N/A | 7 | 754 (656.4) | 9 | 400.9 (147.7) | |
| Stone house | 33 | 18 | 622.6 (329.9) | 2 | 88.0 (26.9) | 13 | 686.4 (230.0) | |
| Table Table | 30 | 9 | 455.9 (154.4) | 12 | 303.3 (159.7) | 9 | 519.3 (223.1) | |
| Toby’s Carvery | 33 | 10 | 423.3 (134.3) | – | N/A | 23 | 671.5 (251.2) | |
| Vintage Inns | 27 | 9 | 357.7 (271.9) | 8 | 239.5 (206.7) | 10 | 738.9 (345.9) | |
| Wagamama | 35 | – | N/A | 22 | 328.1 (117.6) | 13 | 352.6 (120.4) | |
| Zizzi | 81 | 17 | 575.6 (155.1) | 1 | 222.0 (*-) | 63 | 246.5 (150.0) | |
| All full-service restaurants (n=21)* | 815 | 212 | 488.0 (227.7) | 197 | 397.5 (265.3) | 405 | 430.6 (251.5) | |
| n (%)>600 kcal*† | 56 (26.4) | 29 (14.7) | 95 (23.5) | |||||
– indicates the absence of dish from restaurant chain menu.(–) indicates the absence of SD as only one eligible dish from restaurant.
N/A - Non applicable
*For descriptive purposes, values in this row represent the one-level mean (SD) of individual restaurant values for mean kcals per dish.
†The values presented in these rows are the numbers of the dishes exceeding the 600 kcal and their representation among the total meals identified (n (%)).