After work or on weekends, groups of friends gather at long, wooden tables at the four New York City locations of Clinton Hall to watch sports on giant screens, eat smash burgers and wash them down with any one of 20 rotating draft beers.
In all the commotion, it can be hard to notice that a quarter of those diners are eating and drinking miniature versions of those very items.
In April, Clinton Hall introduced its “teeny-weeny mini meal.” For $8, diners get a bite-size burger and fries paired with a miniature beer, margarita or wine. With a two-ounce patty, 1.5 ounces of fries and a five-ounce drink, it’s a kid’s meal for the 21-and-older set.
Aristotle Hatzigeorgiou, the owner, introduced the special after seeing how many people in his own life were taking GLP-1s, a class of drug used for weight loss because they suppress appetites. “I am always with someone who is taking Ozempic, Mounjaro, one of those things,” he said. “They have one or two bites of food and a couple of sips of drinks, and they’re done.”
He disliked the food waste created, and he was concerned diners would tire of paying for items they mostly discarded. “I was worried that as people’s belts were getting tighter, their wallets were also getting tighter,” he said.
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