Fricker's is known for their wings and sauce varieties.
Fricker's restaurant and bar was founded in 1985 by the Frick brothers in Dayton, Ohio. The restaurant boasts about its fun and relaxing environment as much as it does about its food and bar with "wall to wall TVs everywhere at every location" to view sports while you eat. The nutrition information for menu items varies at each location due to differences in portion size, ingredients, and preparation methods. Nutrition guides can be found online for a few menu items, but as of January 2011, there is not a complete nutrition guide for the entire menu available to the public.
Food Choices
The Fricker's menu offers American style food and is known mostly for their wings that come with a variety of sauces. Categories on the menu include appetizers, sandwiches and burgers, salads, dinner entrees, bunless items such as pizzas, wraps, and quesadillas, and side items. Highlighted items on the appetizer list are Mississippi BBQ Nachos made with "traditional southern pulled pork" and Fricker's BBQ sauce and Breaded Veggies of zucchini, cauliflower, and mushrooms served with cocktail sauce. Specialty burgers and sandwiches include the Big Frickin' Burger with one pound of meat and the Big Frickin' Fried Bologna 'n Cheese Sandwich with sauce of your choice.
Portion Sizes
The variety available on the menu allows diners to choose items that come in different portion sizes, which have a direct effect on their nutrient content. For smaller portions, choose items a la carte off of the "On The Side" or "Starters" sections such as Fricker's Green Beans, Pasta Salad, Applesauce, or Frickin' White Chicken Chili which is 97 percent fat free. Larger portioned items such as dinner entrees come with various side items.
Nutritient Content
The nutritional balance of menu items from Fricker's tend to tip towards carbohydrates, proteins and fats due to the number of breaded or fried items and meat choices. Listed fat content can be deceiving for an item if you choose to add a sauce which would add fat and calories to the menu item. Additional carbohydrates can be avoided or decreased by choosing "bunless" options. Similar menu items can have dramatic differences in nutritional information due to the bread and sauce option. For example the Medium "Nakedly" Frickin' Chicken Wings comes without bread and only contains 12.5 g of fat and 3.5 g of carbohydrates compared to the Frickin' Chicken Wrap which has 14 g of fat and 68 g of carbohydrates.
Consumer Control
Diners can take control, to some extent, of the nutritional content of their meals by choosing to limit the amount of fat and carbohydrates in their food by ordering the healthier choices listed on the menu such as the Frickin' White Chicken Chili, non-fried items, salads, and naked wings. Customers can also order from the sandwich and burger section and ask to have it served without the bun. Asking for sauce and dressing on the side rather than on the menu item also gives the diner the power to choose the amount to put on the meal.
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