Toolkit: Nutritional Standards for Restaurant Meals Sold to Kids

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Restaurants market more and parents spend more, but restaurant meal options for kids are typically unhealthy.  This Voice for Healthy Kids toolkit provides tactics to “Serve Kids Better.”

Each year, restaurants spend $715 million—nearly $2 million a day—marketing to children and youth.

American families spend nearly half of all their food dollars (48%) on restaurant foods, which is up from 26% in 1970.

Unfortunately, restaurant meals are typically unhealthy.  86% of children’s meal combinations are too high in calories, 55% are too high in saturated fat, and 66% are too high in sodium.

This toolkit provides information, guidelines, tactics and resources to improve the quality of restaurant meals marketed to and served to children.  It is designed to recruit, engage, educate, organize and mobilize communities to ensure that every child has access to healthy foods and drinks.

Click here for the toolkit.

Click here for a fact sheet for advocates.

Click here for a poster.