They weren’t too good but they were a limited time offer for a while!
The hot dog, sans bun, is a fine low carb snack. Not low fat or low sodium, though, of course. You can always grab a shrimp cocktail platter from the meat section and enjoy it in the snack bar seating area.
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I suppose one could also collect half a dozen in-store samples, and take them to the food court, too. Haha.
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Or a $5 rotisserie chicken
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Those chickens cost $8.99 CAD in Canada. Lol ($6.28 USD right now)
The chicken fingers cost 6.99, so that doesn’t seem like a stretch for someone who wants a healthier option (since we are all ascribing to the premise of the thread).
People rarely actually buy healthier options…several local eateries have offered healthier options at patrons’ request…onky to drop them later when even the requesting patrons didnt ask for them.
When I was on the board of the local Little League, we had a mom who went full Karen on a board meeting, insisting that we offer apples and carrot sticks and veggie burgers.
It was a reasonably cheap trial, but it lasted 2 weeks…til we saw her and her family with a full complement of cheeseburgers, fries, and walking tacos.
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Agree.
That said, I can’t eat Canadian Costco chicken. The chickens from Costco in London, Ontario and Toronto are salt bombs. Much saltier than the other grocery store rotisserie chickens or Portuguese churrasco chickens I buy.
I haven’t tried the chicken fingers and fries at Costco.
I admit I’m not currently a Costco member. I was a very enthusiastic Costco member from around 2006-2015ish. I stopped being a member around 2016.
I’m going to guess that their food court is not truly designed to encourage hungry people to linger and to get a healthy, enjoyable meal. Most Costco’s I’ve been in have bare minimum seating, and when you add in the folks with their carts of goods, it’s about damn near uncomfortable wading through that area. It’s opportunistic to get folks to spend a little extra money and to satisfy a craving or itch before they leave. Ikea seems to want people to have a real sit-down cafeteria experience, but Costco seems more of a grab cheap food and move on type of place.
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I can’t speak for Costco, but the food court / cafe at Sam’s Club has pizza, hot dogs, fries, and hoagies (?). Sometimes lil packages of their sushi (meh), and packaged Caesar salads.
I’ve never seen anyone eat a salad there, TBH.
I think Costco’s food court is mostly lost leaders and lost leaders are usually about either a great deal or something you want, sometimes both. Hence you’ll never see buffalo cauliflower rings there….but instead hot dogs, pizza, soft serve. Costco use to sell a roast beef sandwich which seemed reason. Anyone mention the chicken Caesar salad?
The chicken Caesar may be the healthiEST thing on the food court menu, but I bet that dressing is a calorie bomb!
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Never again! The time I saw one of the vendor’s blow her nose and then go on finish slicing bread for a sample, without sanitizing her gloved hands or changing her gloves, was the last time I ate a sample at Costco. This was just before covid happened here. 
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Nope.*
*I mean, healthy for sure, but… I think I’d take the dog over that concoction 
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Um… that looks like it’s been eaten once already.
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We seem to have a lot of lost leaders.
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Leading multitudes of lost sheep…
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the loss leaders are lost!
I’d like to lose a few more of them.
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