Restaurant Chain Menus: Better Kid Food
The need to produce more nutritious kids meals is a pressing objective at many quick-service and fast-casual restaurant chains.
By Monica Rogers, Contributing Editor -- Chain Leader, 9/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
The need to produce more nutritious kids meals is a pressing objective at many quick-service and fast-casual restaurant chains. Among the new offerings:
Qdoba Mexican Grill is testing some new lower-calorie and lower-fat items. The Lil Naked Chicken Burrito, beans, rice, chicken and choice of cheese or light sour cream, bundled with applesauce and 1 percent milk, is under 600 calories, has less than 10 grams of saturated fat and has no added trans fat. There are also two new sides (applesauce and beans) and two new beverages (1 percent milk and 100 percent juice).
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Tropical Smoothie Cafe's new kids-meal combo, the Big Kahuna, gives kids choice of two new small flatbread sammies (Ham & American cheese or Turkey & Provolone) plus a 12-ounce smoothie and choice of banana, chips or a cookie, for $4.99. The sandwiches are under 360 calories, have no added trans fat, provide less than 5 percent calories from saturated fat, and have less than 1,335 milligrams of sodium. The smoothie includes the equivalent of two servings of real fruit and is 183 calories when made with turbinado sugar, 79 calories if made with no-calorie sweetener.
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Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. is mixing a vitamin boost into its soup
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Quick-service and fast-casual operators promote healthful selections as "better tasting" rather than "better for you"
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