Red Robin's Nutrition Customizer is amazing! I wish every restaurant offered this feature (link inside).

Red Robin's menu page has a link to a a Nutrition Customizer that let's you delete ingredients from each of their menu items (and you can even set a "home" location to find out if that menu item is offered at the one you are going to).

My daughter's birthday is this week and she wanted to go there, so I sat down and spent about ten minutes looking through the menu, deleting buns/bread/croutons etc. til I found the best combo that sounded good. It's most helpful for finding out which of their sauces are the safest, which burgers have onion strings or breaded peppers, etc.

We ended up going with the riblets appetizer (minus the fries and with the sauce on the side). They were actually great, lots of flavor even without the sauce and just a teeny tiny drop of the sauce made them great. For my main course I had the grilled chicken caesar salad without the croutons (5 net carbs). Next time I'll ask for the dressing on the side. It's not heavy in carbs, but they definitely put too much sauce on for me.

I love how empowering it is to go in knowing what I want and to be able to eat my dinner without just crossing my fingers and hoping I haven't underestimated the carb count!

Taco Bell's site has a feature that is pretty good, but Red Robin's is the most thorough nutrition site that I've seen so I wanted to share. Although, fair warning, the sound effects are wicked obnoxious, I recommend turning your sound off before clicking the link. Overall though, it made a fun dinner even better having done my homework.