Healthy Fast Food at Pita Time

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia

Staff Reporter

Fast food is usually asscociated with greasy hamburgers and salty French fries. Healthy is the last thing you would think when talking about fast food. Here comes Pita Time, a ``healthy" fast food restaurant serving different kinds of pita in Itaewon.

Pita Time says that pitas are the healthier alternative to sub-sandwiches, a not so subtle dig at Subway, the American chain famous for its sub-sandwiches. Its flyers claim pita bread only has 70 calories compared to sub-sandwich bread's 480 calories. A chicken pita is only 450 calories, versus a whopping 930 calories for a chicken sub-sandwich.

If that's not enough to convince any health-conscious, calorie-counting individual to try out Pita Time, I don't know what will. We decided to check out Pita Time to see if it really lives up to its claim that it's a ``healthier choice.'' A quick scan of Pita Time's menu shows different kinds of pita wraps, pita pizzas and salads.

Since we were feeling a bit hungry, we ordered two pita wraps, chicken Caesar and steak and cheese, as well as a Hawaiian pita pizza and a Greek salad.