Healthy Kids School Canteen Association

Checklist for Promoting your Menu and Canteen

• Use innovative or novel ways to display foods in the canteen.
• Use posters or menu boards to promote foods in the canteen.
• Decorate your printed menu in an interesting way.
• Conduct a theme day in the canteen eg St Patrick’s day and promote special foods as part of the day.
• Conduct a ‘health promotion’ day such as Healthy Bones week and promote special foods as part of the day.
• Use imaginative names for menu items.
• Use two-for-one deals, prizes, incentives, promotional products, and stickers etc to promote menu items.
• Use free lunch vouchers or ‘frequent customer’ cards to promote the sale of food in the canteen.
• Use the Student representative Committee (SRC) to help promote the canteen.
• Use special ‘meal-deals’ to promote healthy foods.
• Promote the canteen by the school newsletter, PA announcements, school assemblies etc.
• Conduct taste testing of new products to help to promote them.
• Decorate the canteen in a special way to promote healthy food.
• Run a competition to name the school canteen.
• Run a competition to name a new food.
• Run a poster competition to promote a new food.
• Use a classroom activity where students prepare healthy food, sample them and then select those that could be tried in the canteen.
• Contact a local paper to promote a special canteen activity.
• Use technology such as email to promote the canteen menu.