At most fair-to-middling restaurant, like, anything thats not a franchise, you'll usually find in the menu a description of the dressing alongside the salad. Like, Caesar salsd with our home made dressing feature blah blah blah...

At Bistro-style places (and I just learnt [or at least, was told] the other day that bistro was derived from Russian soldiers telling food prepareres to hurry up...) the slada is more often than not undressed.

Chain-store restaurants are the most likely to serve tasty toxic manufactured dressings.

As for veggies vs salad vs chips... bistro-style you usually get to specifcy salad of chips with your meal. I think it's only Maccas, Burger King, or a roadside diner that would serve a burger on its own. In restaurants, you sometimes get the choice of veg or salad or chips. The slightly more flash restaurants will serve the hot veg in a seperate dish, the even flasher ones charge seperately for it, too.

Meerkat,
part-time restaruant minutiae consultant.