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Encouraging Kids to Make Healthier Food Choices in School Lunchrooms using Menu Boards

Beverly Hills, CA, USA, August 08, 2014 -- Epicure Digital, a leader in MyPlate signage solutions for K12 schools presents it’s line of creative and effective signage solutions for K12 schools to help opening the coming new school year with a new healthier look of food served in school campuses, to Encourage kid to make healthier food choices in school lunchrooms and increase meal participation.

The novelty of the new Epicure Menu Board Signage solution are creative and effective nutritional labeling signage options to update daily changes on menu boards in school cafeterias momentarily – in less than one minute – making sure the school nutrition services will be provided with options to keep up updating their menus daily, taking in consideration their limited resources to spend time on updating their menus daily.

eXtension , an interactive learning environment delivering research-based information emerging from America’s land-grant university system, has just published : 3 Ways to Encourage Kids to Make Healthier Food Choices in School Lunchrooms (https://www.extension.org/pages/68884/3-ways-to-encourage...)
Encouraging kids to select and enjoy healthy foods doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. Choosing one option from each of the following principles to create a customized, effective, low-cost or no-cost makeover for school lunchroom developed by the ’Smarter Lunchroom Movement’ (http://smarterlunchrooms.org/) ( a Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Program , funded by the USDA ERS/FNS). Encouraging schools to use creative and effective menu boards whenever possible is repeatedly mentioned in these principles.

A copy of Epicure’s product and price sheet as well as an order form can be found at:
http://www.myplatemenuboards.com/myplate-dry-erase-boards...

The Epicure Menu Board product line includes:

The newly introduced ’MyPlate Today’ Dry Erase Menu Boards that can help school food services to update their menu selections in an easily and efficient way and without the need to rewrite their menus daily. Just add a check mark to menu items served today, and you are done with changing you menu board daily! http://www.myplatemenuboards.com/myplate-dry-erase-boards.html

MyPlate Dry Erase Menu Boards. As an option, schools can apply to each Epicure MyPlate Dry Erase Menu Board, transparent reusable labels for each MyPlate food group (Protein, Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Dairy). Labels come on 8.5 x 11" sheets for quick and easy printing on school’s standard in-house printers. It will take less than a minute to update schools menu board daily!

MyPlate Dry Erase Boards with Magnetic Strips and Magnet Blocks (a simple system to save time and avoid handwriting and spelling errors). Again, it will take less than a minute to update the school menu boards daily!

MyPlate Dry Erase Boards with Colored Frames.

MyPlate Dry Erase Boards on Wheels
MyPlate Front of Line Dry Erase Boards with suction cups and free-standing models
Smart Snacks A-La-Carte Dry Erase Boards including the newly announced ’MyPlate Smart Snack’ A-La-Carte Dry Erase Menu Boards

Digital Menu Boards with NutriLive Nutritional Menu Labeling and creative ways to add Smart Snacks A-La-Carte Information

Any Epicure dry erase menu board can use any of Epicure dray erase systems, such as: ’MyPlate Today’, Magnetic Strips, Magnetic Blocks, Transparent reusable clings, Colored Frames, On Wheels, Front of the Line and digital menu boards.

Epicure Digital clients include K-12 schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, independent and chain restaurants, contract food service companies, business & industry, and cinemas and casinos among others.

Contact:
Tommy Orpaz
Epicure Digital
8665 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-652-8246
torpaz@epicuredigital.com
http://www.epicuredigital.com