GLP-1 drugs are beginning to reshape restaurant menus, but not in the way many operators first expected. Rather than staying home, users of Ozempic and Wegovy kept dining out, ordering with more intention and, in many cases, quietly steering where an entire table chooses to eat. The industry has started to catch up, and what operators are finding is already moving menus in directions nobody planned for.
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