The Eat Smart! cafeteria program is designed to encourage healthy food choices, food safety and non-smoking seating in school and worksite cafeterias across the province. Eat Smart! was fist initiated in 2000 as Ontario’s Healthy Restaurant Program and has now expanded to include cafeterias. The overall goal of Eat Smart! is to contribute to the reduction of food-borne illness and chronic diseases in Ontario.

List of Thunder Bay District Eat Smart Cafeterias

What are the benefits of the program?

• Healthier students and employees
• Efficient and effective employees, as well as students ready to learn
• Reduced in the incidence of food borne illness
• Lower incidence of absenteeism
• What is learned at work or in the school environment can influence choices at home
• Support for promoting the program in your cafeteria through free materials such as posters, point of purchase message cards, prizes, launch day events, as well as resources like fact sheets.

How do you qualify?

It is easy to qualify for the Eat Smart! program. In fact, you may already be meeting the requirements by providing healthier food choices and a healthy environment.

There are three criteria your cafeteria must meet to join the Eat Smart! Program:

Nutrition

Your cafeteria must provide healthy food choices that reflects Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating.

Food Safety

Your cafeteria must have a history of compliance with all requirements of Ontario’s Food Premises Regulation as well as have at least one full-time kitchen employee certified in safe food handling.

Non-smoking Seating

The cafeteria must be 100% smoke free – no smoking permitted in the cafeteria.

See Eat Smart! Standards to the left of your screen for a more detailed outline of the requirements.