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Chains Tailor Dishes to Suit Followers of Latest Diet Trend.
Byline: Victor Godinez
Feb. 12--Laura Herndon started following the low-carb Atkins Diet a little over a year ago.
She's lost 50 pounds since then, but the Irving, Texas, resident said she didn't get much help from restaurants. When she did eat out, eliminating carbohydrate-heavy bread, sugar and milk from her order proved tough.
"People would ask, 'Why are you eating your cheeseburger with a knife and fork?' " said Herndon, an information technology worker for Accenture.
Just in time for diet season, restaurants from Izmir Mediterranean Tapas in Dallas to T.G.I. Friday's and Subway are introducing menu options aimed at the growing legion of carb-careful diners.
"I'm really happy to see that there are different types of restaurants (with low-carb offerings)," she said. "I can go to Subway and get a meal I don't have to pick apart with a fork."
Diet trends are nothing new to the nearly half-trillion-dollar restaurant industry, which has been reluctant to latch on to the fad of the month. But the unwavering popularity of Atkins, South Beach and other low-carb diets has restaurant purveyors across the country engineering new recipes with both taste and low-carbohydrate content in mind.
"I've read some of the studies, and they say there are 32 million people on the Atkins diet," said Kristin…
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