Last quarter, the restaurant chain tested a new menu section at a little less than half of its locations: smaller portions, along with reduced prices, for seven of its dinner entrées. From the chain that invented unlimited breadsticks — which, by the way, was included in this trial — what changed for customers? The National Restaurant Association found in their annual survey that 64% of consumers tend to replace three traditional meals with snack items during the day, and 74% of restaurant customers say they crave smaller portions. Some online chatter has also attributed the smaller options to the rise of Wegovy, Ozempic and other weight loss drugs. But Webster predicts that people’s eating patterns are now significantly different enough from when the menus were first designed that these portion trends could spread.