Omnivore Atlanta

Hey, guess what. You’ll never guess. It seems that chain restaurants advertising healthy dining choices may be stretching the truth.

A Seattle resident has filed two class-action suits against Applebee’s and three chains owned by Brinker International.

We’re not talking marginal differences:

An independent laboratory tested the dishes, according to a Scripps Howard News Service article. “Dishes targeted to health-conscious consumers a popular chains like Chili’s, Taco Bell and Applebee’s contained as much as twice the calories and eight times the grams of fat than the restaurants claimed in their published nutrition information,” the article said.

And those discrepancies include Applebee’s “Weight Watchers” menu. Read the full story here. Read the original story that prompted the class action suits here.

And read a very funny blog post about dining at Applebee’s here.

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Oh, here’s some good news. Now you, too, can own an Applebee’s:

GLENDALE, Calif. - IHOP Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to buy Applebee’s International Inc. for $1.9 billion in cash, and plans to sell restaurants to franchisees to reduce costs and debt.

News of the agreement sent IHOP shares to their biggest gain in 21 months. IHOP stock increased $4.99, or 8.9 percent, to a record $61.24, on the New York Stock Exchange, its biggest jump since October 2005. Shares of Applebee’s increased 53 cents, to $24.91, on the Nasdaq stock market.

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