Rob Percival rpercival@soilassociation.org www.soilassociation.org/outtolunch

1. A healthy choice: Are chains and attractions providing variety and making healthy eating easy? Are their menus laden with sugar? Do they offer a variety of fresh veg and fruit as standard?

2. Fresh food you can trust: Is their meat farm assured? Are they serving free range eggs or sustainable fish? Are they cooking and preparing meals fresh in the restaurant? 3. Family friendly: Are they welcoming children and treating them well? Are they accommodating parent needs?

• 66% of parents say they don’t think children’s food in restaurants is good enough.

• Parents are twice as likely to think visitor attractions serve good food to adults, compared to the food they serve to children

2015

Frankie & Benny’s, Pizza Hut, Café Rouge still offer children free or discounted refills of high calorie sugary drinks as standard. 2x 330ml servings of Coca-Cola or Pepsi will add 70g of

free sugars to a meal. This is the equivalent of 17.5 sugar cubes – 291% of the recommended daily maximum for a child of 10.

Pizza Hut offers an unlimited ‘ice cream factory’ with do-it-yourself decorations. A portion of ‘ice cream factory’ ice cream, topped with lemon crunch and milk chocolate beans would include 109g of free sugars. This is 27 sugar cubes – 450% of the recommended daily

maximum for a child of 10.

London Zoo was found to be offering an unhealthy food environment: A day out at London Zoo could see a child consume 132g

of sugar – 700% of a child’s daily sugar allowance. A child’s lunchbox alone could include 36g of sugar – 189%

of a child’s daily sugar allowance.

The Zoo promotes sugary sweets directly to children, with stickers at child height, including ZSL own-brand sweets.

At some kiosks, Pepsi is cheaper than water. There was more plastic fruit in fake market displays then

there was real fruit on offer throughout the Zoo.

2016

1. Pizza Hut: Ice Cream Factory (ice cream, chocolate sauce and 2 toppings): 79.6g sugar *ice-cream factory is ‘bottomless’ – this assumes 2x servings

2. Hungry Horse: Popping Candy Wafer Boat (2 scoops of ice cream, wafer boat, strawberry sauce, sweets and a sachet of popping candy): 78g sugar

3. Harvester: Build your own Sunday (ice cream sundae with a crispy cone and Cadbury flake, plus chocolate fudge pieces, chocolate sauce, honeycomb sprinkle, mini marshmallows): 70.5g sugar

4. TGI Fridays: Sweet Shop Sundae (2 scoops of ice cream and a ‘sweet shop bag of goodies’, served with either strawberry or chocolate dipping sauce): 60g sugar

5. Sizzling Pub and Grill: Buzz the Ice Cream Bee (vanilla ice cream, Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons, Devon toffee sauce, chocolate sauce and wafers): 57g sugar

2017

Public health: the bigger picture

1. Beyond reformulation 2. Antibiotics 3. Sustainable diets

Rob Percival rpercival@soilassociation.org www.soilassociation.org/outtolunch