Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, hold the ... nutrition?
That's a possibility, according to John Stanton, Ph.D., chair of food marketing at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Stanton posits that "frills" in hamburgers -- you know, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions, the only healthy part of it -- will no longer come gratis. Want a pickle? Be ready to pony up more coin.
His prediction isn't that far-fetched. Look at the airline industry, charging us for peanuts now.
"In the long run consumers will accept the added costs -- we always have," Stanton says in a news release.
What's next? Restaurants charging us for salt and pepper shaker access?
