Think mobile food vendors already have built-in cost advantages over brick-and-mortar restaurants? Well, they’re likely to get more. Food truck operators are forming advocacy groups to lobby local government officials, and their efforts have already begun to pay off. Maybe it’s time your local or state restaurant association starts standing up for your interests.

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You don’t need a PhD in nutrition to know it’s impossible to calibrate restaurant dish calorie counts accurately in real world conditions. But that didn’t stop the Journal of the American Medical Association from reporting that nearly 20 percent of restaurant items contain 100 calories more than what restaurants say they do. If JAMA thinks this is a lot of variance, wait until researchers start tracking salt content.

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Restaurant goers may be cutting back on their spending, but one category seems to be holding its own, and more: health-focused concepts.
As evidence, consider three high-profile brands that have become media darlings:

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