Healthy School Canteen

Includes resources to support transitioning to healthier school canteens for school leaders, canteen managers, parents, and communities.
Healthy Food and Drink in NSW Health Facilities for Staff and Visitors Framework (2017)

Best practice guidelines for health facilities to use for cafes/cafeterias, vending machines, convenience stores/newsagents, retail premises, and catering.
Resources for Victoria School Operations: Canteens, Healthy Eating and Other Food Services

Resources to assist schools develop healthy canteens. The website includes links to the policy, evaluating changes, food planners, and educational materials.
Kaiser Permanente Healthy Picks website

Describes healthy food guidelines and implementation resources for hospital food venues, including patient menus, cafeterias, coffee carts, kiosks, vending and gift shops.
Guía Para Tiendas y Cafetines Escolares (Guide for school stores and cafeterias)

Guide for administrators of school stores and cafeterias to implement the criteria laid out in the national policy for schools. View the technical standards, Implementation Guide (all in Spanish) and summary of the policy on GINA (English).
India’s School Children Regulation

India’s regulation including restrictions on the advertising, marketing, or selling of food products high in saturated fat or trans-fat or added sugar or sodium on school campuses or to school children in an area within fifty meters from the school gate in any direction.
SNAP Ed Toolkit – Healthy Nutrition Guidelines for LA County website

Resources to support implementation of healthy food guidelines for county agencies, including evaluation tools, model policies, a vending case study, and guidance for hospitals.
Seychelles National School Nutrition Policy (2008)

Describes the Seychelles’ efforts to utilize schools as sites for improving the nutritional well-being of all school children. Includes an evaluation tool for schools (page 32).
NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy

This website contains a variety of resources for schools implementing the strategy, including webinars, guidance on how to develop menus, sample recipes, portion size guides, etc., as well as a link to the Food and Drink Criteria booklet summarizing the criteria and providing implementation guidance.
NOURISHING Framework

Searchable database of implemented policies to promote healthy diets and reduce obesity. Use Section O (Offer healthy food and set standards in public institutions and other specific settings) to search for public food procurement examples.
New York City Food Standards website

Describes comprehensive standards that apply to all food purchased and served by city agencies, including specific standards and implementation guides, along with communications materials.
National Healthy Schools Canteen Evaluation Toolkit (2010)

Toolkit includes logic model, research framework, and focus group questions to guide process evaluation and short-term impact evaluation.
Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA)

Searchable database of nutrition programs, country adaptations and lessons learnt.
Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities (2017)

Standards for food, nutrition, facility efficiency, environmental support, community development, food safety and behavioral design for use in food service concession and vending operations.
Eating Well in Government Venues website

Model policies for policymakers. Website links to resources on creating healthy food service on government property and an infographic on buying food for health and equity.
Healthier Food Choices for Public Places website

Resources for improving food and beverage options for vending machines, cafeterias, concession stands, meetings, and events; includes messaging tips, model policies, and implementation resources.
City of Philadelphia Nutrition Standards website

Includes links to the city’s Executive Order, nutrition standards, and implementation resources, such as a menu planning toolkit.
CDC Healthy Food Environments website

Resources to support implementation and evaluation of nutrition standards in childcare site, schools, hospitals and workplaces.
CDC Heathy Foodservice Guidelines website

Guide to implementing the US Food Service Guidelines, including cafeterias, concession stands, snack bars, and vending machines; includes link to Smart Food Choices (Assessment Tool, page 30).
Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet

Provides an overview of how to develop, implement, assess compliance with, and evaluate the effectiveness of a healthy public food procurement and service policy. It is intended for government policy makers or program managers working on public food procurement or service, at either a national or a subnational level, including at regional, provincial and city […]
ACT Public School Food and Drink Policy

Describes nutrition standards for schools, including links to legislation.