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I think their name says it all, OP. At least they're upfront about it :-)

The bottom line is that you're never sure whether "straight-forward" foods in restaurants aren't secretly laden with sugar, salt, fat and other things to make then tastier. 
Plus there's the question of portion control.
Then there is the equally difficult question of: "Are you really eating that healthy at home anyway?" [/quote]

Well, except that at Potbelly (and many other restaurants) you can look up all the nutritional information.  I don't know that every single ingredient in their turkey is listed, but you can look at the nutritional info for every item on their menu.

To OP: I guess it depends on what your definition of "healthy" is.  For some people it means on whole, unprocessed foods, prepared from scratch - everything else, to them, is unhealthy.  To others healthy means eating well overall,  moderating intake of saturated fats/sodium/whathaveyou, some processed foods in the diet balanced by other from-scratch whole food meals, etc.

I tend to fall in the latter camp.  When at Potbelly, I get a thin-sliced Mediterranean on wheat with chicken, skip the artichokes and feta, and add lettuce, tomato, onion.  I don't go often, because there isn't one convenient to me - but I'd say that I hit a similar place (Subway, Chipotle, etc.) and make a similar reasonable choice 2-3 times/week.  I'm ok with that when I'm making healthy, homemade dinners most nights of the week, you know?[/quote]

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