That free bread at dinner might make you fork out some extra dough.
That’s right — the deliciously zero-cost carb-load before your entree could be costing you more than you bargained for, at least according to one TikToker.
Denise, who goes by @sweetfiber online, revealed the real reason restaurants load up customers on homemade bread — or chips and dip, depending on cuisine — prior to a meal.
“It’s not because they want you to fill up on the ‘free stuff,’ and they’re not being generous,” she said in a clip.
“This is actually a way for them to make more money.”
Munching on bread while eyeing the menu, Denise claimed, will make you hungrier and crave more due to a blood glucose spike that happens while consuming the bread.
“So, while it feels like they’re being generous, they are actually winning,” she said of the restaurants’ scheme.
“You order more food, they bring you some more bread and then offer you a dessert that’s nearly impossible to resist.”
Thus, diners blow more cash, claimed Denise, who uses her online platform to share her lifestyle changes after learning she was pre-diabetic.
But some of her 1.3 million viewers didn’t necessarily agree with her theory, claiming they’re too full after a bread basket and appetizers to eat any more.
“The opposite for me. I ended up being full and ordered less,” one user argued.
“I usually am so full after the bread and can’t finish my food,” agreed another.
“I actually get full from the bread and don’t end up ordering much,” lamented someone else.
“Ha! Their science can’t beat my poverty. I’m still just gonna order one thing and no dessert … with a water,” one person said.
Experts previously told Time that the processed carbohydrates trigger a large release of insulin to “normalize blood sugar” and send it into “storage” — cue the hunger pangs.
“The prime culprit at restaurants is the basket of bread,” Dr. David Ludwig, a Harvard nutrition professor, told Time.
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