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To answer your question briefly NO, because I don't have direct access to their recipes. HOWEVER I know that chain restaurant food is loaded with preservatives because my husband was offered a job in product development for a company that makes soups/stocks/bases/sauces/gravies for major chain restaurants. He turned the job down because he was so repulsed by the chemical element. Basically this firm(which is one of the nation's largest) has 5 recipe developers.....3 food scientists/chemists and 2 chefs. Getting these people on the same page is a difficult task I can assure you. Now, if you're wondering why these corporations need this the answer is simple: consistency. You simply cannot have a consistent final product at EVERY restaurant if they don't start with the exact same base and once you throw a human element into the situation consistency goes out the window. These corporations cannot afford to let a $9 an hour line cook be the creator of a recipe day in and out so if you notice they have pictures of the plates in the kitchens at these restaurants to tell the cooks where to put the pre-made sauce, the veggies, the meat etc. There's just no way for them to get around it. Hey, don't come after me because I just tell it the way it is. I have no problem with Chilis and Fridays.....people can eat whatever they want it's America for crying out loud, I just know that there is higher quality stuff out there and I prefer to eat it......my restaurant will probably fail while theirs will still be around 20 years from now.