Smarter Lunchrooms Multimedia

Would you like celery or carrots? Carrots please! By giving kids a choice in the school lunchroom the consumption of vegetables and fruits increases dramatically! Try it out!

An easier way to an apple a day! Simply putting fruit in a nice looking bowl increased consumption of fruit by 103% in some school lunchroom studies

Including a convenience line for healthy foods in the school lunchroom can cut back on the amount of junk foods being purchased for your kids' lunch!

Simply by including a little bit of "suggestive selling" in your child's school lunch you can increase the amount of fruits or vegetables they eat!

Would you like to eat next to garbage cans? Or lost and found? Set up your lunchroom with these things in mind and kids may eat a little more and a little healthier!

MTV's Channel One accompanies Dr. Brian Wansink and Dr. David Just on a Smarter Lunchrooms Makeover. Watch and see what happens!

MTV's Channel One accompanies Dr. Brian Wansink and Dr. David Just on a Smarter Lunchrooms Makeover. Watch and see what happnens! This segment reveals the results.

Location! Location! Location! Your kids may drink more white milk if it is in the right place at the right time!

How can get our kids to drink more white milk? The Smarter Lunchroom Movement knows!

Just like a game show...naming boring foods can increase sales and consumption! Even in school lunchrooms! Try those "X-Ray Vision Carrots" and maybe walk away a lunchroom hero!

A cash for cookies line in school lunchrooms can help keep the "Cookie Monster" at bay in your school's lunch line!

Easy changes in your child's lunchroom can increase their consumption of healthy foods! Like apples! The Smarter Lunchroom Movement shows you how!

Introducing you to 6 principles designed to assist you in the customization of your smarter lunchrooms.

Teaching you tricks to manage portion sizes as to prevent the over consumption of food.

Encourage healthy eating through the strategic placement of nutritional items in the forefront of food exposition.

Increase the popularity of healthy options by putting them in a prominent place in serving areas and on menus.

Exciting names enhance the expected taste of entrees and sides, which in turn augment the actual experience.

Publicize healthy options through verbal and visual cues.

Create bargain bundles with healthy sides and entrees to bolster their sales.

A quick overview of the three types of data we collect.

What data do production, sales and tray waste records provide and how does this data help us to evaluate the interventions we put into place in school lunchrooms?

A brief overview of how to conduct a field experiment in promotion of healthier lunchroom choices.

An overview and examples of the experimental design we use in promoting healthier food choices. 

A brief explanation of the importance of data in gauging the alterations made to school lunchrooms.

An overview of the importance of data and examples from research we've conducted.

A brief intro about tray waste and the function of the data we gather from it.

What is tray waste, what does it tell us, how do we use it and how do we conduct a collection period?

An introduction to the School Lunch Challenge, Behavioral Economics Theory and the Smarter Lunchrooms movement.

A challenge to school lunchrooms to encourage healthy food options while maintaining low costs and participation in a shrewd manner.

An Introduction to the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement and this series of videos designed to provide insight into it.

An introduction to setting up for tray waste measurement day.

An introduction to setting up a play tray waste study.

An overview of how a tray waste data collection team is organized and conducts its business.

An introduction to a series of videos illustrating how to collect tray waste data.

A demonstration of the 1/4 method, our way of logging how much of an item was left on the tray.

A guide to setting up in a lunchroom for tray waste data collection and the optimal processing procedure for waste.

A demonstration of how to collect tray waste weight data.

An introduction to a video series designed to help in working with adult learners.

An overview to working with adult learners and stratagems to keep them engaged.

An overview of the mission metaphors activity.  A great jumping off point for opening up ideas of improving lunchrooms.

An overview of the role play activity where members of a lunchroom act out different roles than their own to increase awareness of alternate perspectives on lunchroom change.

An overview of the lunch line redesign activity.

An overview of the Problem solving activity where groups go about working out problems through many different lenses.

An overview of the think-pair-share designed to get all opinions on a question rather than just picking on a few.

A quick description of the best/worst activity designed to help reach a consensus on ideas for lunchroom improvements.

An overview of the spot checks activities which intends to asses how receptive the learners were to your message.