{"id":26676,"date":"2026-05-19T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:14:25","slug":"resource-for-promoting-healthy-sustainable-food-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/19\/resource-for-promoting-healthy-sustainable-food-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource for Promoting Healthy, Sustainable Food Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n

Perhaps you work in food service in a restaurant, a hospital, a school cafeteria, a college or university, or elsewhere and you\u2019d like to encourage your customers to choose more vegan dishes. Or, maybe you are a student or a consumer who would like to work with a food service establishment in your community to encourage them to develop and promote more vegan items. The non-profit World Resources Institute has developed a free 92-page resource, The Food Service Playbook for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>which offers many helpful ideas for behavior change techniques to promote healthy, sustainable food choices. <\/em>The resource is not vegan; its goal is to encourage diners to choose more plant-rich dishes and less meat when dining out. Many of its ideas can be used as is or adapted to promote vegan dishes.<\/p>\n

The playbook includes 90 behavior change techniques that can be used to influence diners\u2019 food choices. Of these, eighteen are identified as \u201cpriority\u201d techniques; these have been shown to be effective and feasible. An additional 34 techniques are \u201cpromising\u201d \u2013 they have also been shown to be effective but may have a lower impact or be less feasible to implement (1).<\/p>\n

The \u201cpriority\u201d techniques include:<\/p>\n