Availability of Healthier Children's Menu Items in the Top Selling Quick Service Restaurant Chains (2004-2015).

Objectives: To describe time trends in the availability of healthier children's menu items in the top selling quick service restaurant (QSR) chains.

Methods: We used Technomic Inc.'s MenuMonitor to construct a data set of side and beverage items available on children's menus from 2004 to 2015 at 20 QSR chains in the United States.

Orders Of Healthier Children's Items Remain High More Than Two Years After Menu Changes At A Regional Restaurant Chain.

In a previous study we showed that customers ordered healthier food following the April 2012 implementation of a healthier children's menu at Silver Diner, a regional restaurant chain. In this study we used newly available data to assess orders of children's menu items both one and two years after our last assessment. Previous assessments took place in September 2011-March 2012 and in September 2012-March 2013, before and after implementation of the new menu, respectively.