Colorado’s Smart Meal™ Restaurant Program

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) created the Smart Meal program to help customers identify, and eating establishments promote healthy meal options. The Smart Meal seal clearly identifies menu items that meet the designated healthy guidelines.

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Manager Interview Questions

The Manager Interview Questions is an evaluation tool to gain a better understanding of the environmental impact the Smart Meal program has had within the culture of restaurants. This tool can be completed directly by restaurant owners/managers, or may be used utilized by the Smart Meal program manager with the restaurant in a Q & A format.
This tool should be completed at least once/year for each restaurant.

Name:
Email Address:
Phone:
Restaurant Name:
Address:
City/State:
ZIP/Postal Code:

We greatly appreciate you taking the time to tell us why you would like to participate in the Smart Meal program and telling us what we can do to improve.

What do you think about the growing rates of obesity in the general public? Is it a cause of concern? Please explain...

What can your business do to help prevent obesity in your customers?

Do the benefits of promoting healthy foods to your customers outweigh the costs of doing so? Please explain...

What are the main reasons you decided to adopt the Smart Meal Program?

How important to your business is positive media exposure and news coverage about promoting healthy foods?
Please explain...

Is the Smart Meal program easy to use and does it work? Please explain...

How should the program be improved?

Manager Interview Questions

Name:
Email Address:
Phone:
Restaurant Name:
Address:
City/State:
ZIP/Postal Code:

We greatly appreciate you taking the time to tell us why you would like to participate in the Smart Meal program and telling us what we can do to improve.

What do you think about the growing rates of obesity in the general public? Is it a cause of concern? Please explain...

What can your business do to help prevent obesity in your customers?

Do the benefits of promoting healthy foods to your customers outweigh the costs of doing so? Please explain...

What are the main reasons you decided to adopt the Smart Meal Program?

How important to your business is positive media exposure and news coverage about promoting healthy foods?
Please explain...

Is the Smart Meal program easy to use and does it work? Please explain...

How should the program be improved?

Smart Meal Sales Data Collection Form

The Sales Data Collection Form is for restaurants to use to record sales data of the Smart Meal items. The form may be used as-is, or as a guideline for reporting the information requested. Ideally, the restaurant would collect sales data on a weekly (average) basis during the first year of implementation of the Smart Meal program.

Guidelines

Baseline data must be collected prior to the launch of the program.
- If the qualifying Smart Meal items are modifications of existing menu items, then the baseline data would consist of an average of sales of the existing items for a minimum of 6 months prior to the launch of the Smart Meal items.
- If new Smart Meal items have been created, then the baseline data would consist of the sales data from the most similar non-Smart Meal menu items to be used as a comparison.
Sales data to be collected (may be an average or % of overall sales) monthly by the restaurant for the first year of implementation.

Franchise:
Restaurant Name:
Restaurant Address:
City/State:
ZIP/Postal Code:
Name:
Email Address:
Phone:
Instructions: At the end of each month, please list all items labeled with the Smart Meal Seal. Include the baseline* and record the number of each item sold during that month.
Entree Item:
Baseline:
Number Sold:
Month: Year:

Baseline refers to sales data for the month before the items are labeled with the Smart Meal Seal, if available. If the item is new at the time it is labeled with the Smart Meal Seal, note “new item” in this field.

Featured Restaurant

This month's featured restaurant is Beau Jo's Pizza. Click below to find out more.

Download the Smart Meal Mobile Web App Today!

Locate all the Smart Meal participating restaurants. Go to m.smartmealcolorado.com on your phone's mobile browser.