title: Planning and development of the Better Bites program: a pricing manipulation strategy to improve healthy eating in a hospital cafeteria.
abstract: The Better Bites program, a hospital cafeteria nutrition intervention strategy, was developed by combining evidence-based practices with hospital-specific formative research, including key informant interviews, the Nutrition Environment Measures Study in Restaurants, hospital employee surveys, and nutrition services staff surveys. The primary program components are pricing manipulation and marketing to promote delicious, affordable, and healthy foods to hospital employees and other cafeteria patrons. The pricing manipulation component includes decreasing the price of the healthy items and increasing the price of the unhealthy items using a 35% price differential. Point-of-purchase marketing highlights taste, cost, and health benefits of the healthy items. The program aims to increase purchases of healthy foods and decrease purchases of unhealthy foods, while maintaining revenue neutrality. This article addresses the formative research, planning, and development that informed the Better Bites program.
authors.affiliation: LiveWell Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA. mliebert@ppymca.org
authors.forename: Mina L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Liebert
authors.forename: Amy J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Patsch
authors.forename: Jennifer Howard
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Timothy K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Behrens
authors.forename: Tami
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Charles
authors.forename: Taryn R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Bailey
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D004032:Diet; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D016272:Occupational Health; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D017132:Workplace