CookSmart (10th Issue) Page32

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Recruitment of EatSmart Restaurants 2011!

Visit an EatSmart Restaurant for healthier dishes! The number of EatSmart Restaurants has been growing from some 100 at the beginning to more than 600 now. They are offering some 400 EatSmart Dishes covering a variety of regional cuisines and tastes. EatSmart Restaurants 2011 are now being recruited. Customer-oriented restaurants and chefs are cordially invited to join the EatSmart force! For enrollment details, please call 2572 1476.

With immediate effect, existing EatSmart Restaurants may submit their renewal application together with at least five “EatSmart Dish” recipes to the EatSmart Secretariat. The application form can be downloaded at the EatSmart Restaurant Website (http://restaurant.eatsmart.gov.hk).

Courtesy Visit

To strengthen the liaison with restaurants and to offer the public more healthy and quality EatSmart Dishes, officers of the Department of Health regularly visit EatSmart Restaurants and give them advice and assistance on the provision of a wide variety of tasty EatSmart Dishes and the proper use of promotional materials. Meanwhile, EatSmart Restaurants should take note of the following requirements:

• Offer at least five EatSmart Dishes (including “Dishes with Fruit and Vegetables” and “3 Less Dishes”) in selected business hours every day;
• Ensure the best use of product information and promotional materials at the point of purchase so that customers can easily recognise EatSmart Dishes. These include the display of EatSmart Restaurant decal at the entrance and the EatSmart menu stickers in the menus; and
• Ensure that “Customer Opinion Forms” are available in the restaurant so that customers could make their comments.