Nutrition in Early Childcare Centers, Restaurants and Worksites

Make Healthy Happen Here

Healthy eating is a critical component to combat cardiovascular risk factors as well as childhood and adult obesity. Adults and children are regularly faced with unhealthy food and beverage options in their daily lives. Providing frequent and easy access to healthy food choices is necessary to improve nutrition in the Miami-Dade community.

Related Key Indicators

Goal 1: Increase the number of non-chain restaurants in Miami-Dade County that offer healthy meal options as a part of their regular menu by:

Educating restaurant owners on the benefits of offering healthy meal options at their restaurant
Utilizing registered dieticians to modify and/or create recipes to meet nutritional guidelines
Advertising the healthy meal options to consumers
Surveying consumers to measure utilization rates, acceptability, and quality of the meal

General Restaurant Initiation Plan

Key Actions:

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In progress

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Contact potential non-chain restaurants about participation in Healthy Happens Here Restaurant Initiative

Meet with restaurant owners for intitial consultation and signing of pledge of participation

Review and modify at least three (3) current menu items for each restaurant to improve nutritional content. If preferred by restaurant owner, dieticians can create new healthy meal options to be added to their menu.

Educate restaurant owners, as well as staff members (including chefs), on the benefits of providing healthy meal options to consumers

Complete sensory evaluation

Implement new healthy items menu in restaurant

Survey consumers to measure healthy menu utilization, quality, and acceptance

Evaluation Plan

Key Actions:

Completed

In progress

Not Started

	Contact and enroll at least 75 non-chain restaurants for Healthy Happens Here Restaurant Initiative
	Complete initial consultation with all participating restaurants (including education and Participation Pledge)
	Review and modify healthy menu options for all participating restaurants
	Complete sensory evaluation of all participating restaurants
	Observe or obtain estimated consumer consumption of healthy meals at particpating restaurants for baseline data
	Implement Healthy Happens Here menu at participating restaurants
	Complete 6 month follow-up survey of consumers
	Complete 12 month follow-up survey of consumers