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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeyDragon" data-source="post: 3108967" data-attributes="member: 23929">I know where I work, we don't keep nutritional information on hand, and are not allowed to look it up for customers in the store.  My guess is because a lot of our products (particularly the bakery items) are pretty bad for you, and they don't want to lose sales.  We are encouraged, however, to point customers to our website, which lists the nutritional information for just about everything on our menu.One thing I NEVER see, though, is an ingredients list on anything.  It's not on the website and it's not on the packages of the mixes we use for various products (like the powder we mix with coffee to get the base for our blended coffee drink).  A few of the packaged goods (like the smoothie base) do have ingredients on their labels, but the information just doesn't seem to be available for a lot of the common items.  I understand that the company probably sees the ingredients in the products to be trade secrets, but it does get frustrating to have to tell customers that I don't know what's in the item they're buying, and they'll have to go home to look up the nutritional info.</blockquote>