Calorie Aggregator and Receipt Broadcasting Service (CARBS)

Finally, there will be a service available that will work with restaurants to enable them to add Calorie count to the sales receipt.  Additionally, it will breakdown exactly how those calories are distributed across the ingredients that were used to make the meal.  This information can the be read by a smart device by scanning the QR code from the receipt. 

Sample receipt with the calories displayed.

What's the challenge?

• For people that are watching what they are eating to lose weight or to gain a specific type of weight, it’s difficult to track this when you’re eating out.

How does the innovation help?

• Now you’ll be able to know the following:

  • What restaurant you visited.

  • The location of the restaurant.

  • What you spent.

  • What you ordered (sometimes you don’t remember if you liked it or not, now you’ll be able to track that)

  • The total number of calories that were consumed (e.g. the sandwich, the wine, the appetizer, etc)

  • The ingredients and amounts of those ingredients.  Maybe you don’t feel good after eating the meal, understanding the ingredients may point to an allergy you may not know you have.

• The complementary App will be able to aggregate the calories consumed and perhaps with integration with your fitness app, will provide you the exercise offset you did for the day.