Using Interactive Technology to Promote Healthier Eating in Restaurants

描述（由申请人提供）：肥胖和其他饮食相关的风险因素始终与在餐馆和快餐店用餐有关。这项SBIR建议提供了一个新的和潜在的强大的战略，积极影响健康的订购行为时，在餐馆用餐。这项提案的长期目标是减少与在家吃饭有关的营养相关的健康风险，包括低水果和蔬菜摄入量以及高饱和脂肪、总脂肪、钠和卡路里摄入量。这个项目的目的（第一阶段和第二阶段）是开发一个商业上可行的技术平台，使餐馆能够在客人点菜时为其提供1）准确的营养信息，2）符合合格营养标准的营养学批准的菜单选择，3）减少卡路里水平的额外建议，脂肪和钠在大多数标准菜单项目和4）个性化的建议，根据餐厅客人的健康和营养目标。据推测，订购行为可以在销售点（在决策的时刻）通过采用创新的新技术来影响：类似iPad的“智能菜单”，通过诱人且易于使用的平台来识别和促进营养师批准的健康餐饮菜单选择。所有菜单项均可通过智能菜单订购。然而，特色部分将包括目前在HealthyDiningFinder.com上列出的项目，这是一个通过CDC的SBIR计划资助的电子健康工具。所有健康餐饮批准的菜单选项符合健康餐饮的注册营养师团队制定的营养标准，以及美国农业部和其他主要健康组织的建议。在第一阶段，健康餐饮将与Usable Health（智能菜单系统的开发商）合作，进行形成性研究，以衡量消费者在使用智能菜单与传统订购方案时对健康餐饮选择（订购行为）的定量差异。我们将在三家快餐连锁店（每家三家，共九家）实施智能菜单，其中包括健康饮食选择和相应的营养信息。该项目建立在四个 由NCI和CDC授予健康餐饮的其他SBIRs。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity and other diet-related risk factors are consistently linked to dining at restaurants and fast-food eateries. This SBIR proposal provides a new and potentially powerful strategy to positively influence healthier ordering behavior when dining out at restaurants. The long-term goal of this proposal is to reduce the nutrition-related health risks associated with eating away from home, including low fruit and vegetable intake and high saturated fat, total fat, sodium and calorie intake. The aim of this project (Phases I and II)is to develop a commercially viable technology platform that will enable restaurants to provide their guests, at the time of ordering, with 1) accurate nutrition information, 2) a selection of dietitia-approved menu choices that meet qualifying nutrition criteria, 3) additional recommendations to reduce the levels of calories, fat and sodium in a majority of standard menu items and 4) personalized recommendations based on restaurant guests' health and nutrition goals. It is hypothesized that ordering behavior can be influenced at the point of sale (in the moment of decision-making) by employing an innovative new technology: an iPad like 'Smart menu' that identifies and promotes dietitian- approved Healthy Dining menu choices through an enticing and easy-to-use platform. All menu items are available for ordering through the Smart menu. Featured sections, however, will include items currently listed on HealthyDiningFinder.com, an eHealth tool funded through CDC's SBIR program. All of the Healthy Dining approved menu options meet nutrition criteria developed by Healthy Dining's team of registered-dietitians, in conjunction with the recommendations of the USDA and other leading health organizations. During Phase I, Healthy Dining will collaborate with Usable Health (developer of the Smart menu system) to will conduct formative research to measure the quantitative differences in consumer selection (ordering behavior) of the Healthy Dining choices while using the Smart menu versus traditional ordering scenarios. We will be implementing the Smart menus featuring the Healthy Dining choices and corresponding nutrition information at three quick-serve restaurant chains (three locations each for a total of nine locations). This project builds on four other SBIRs awarded to Healthy Dining by NCI and CDC.