K-12 Digital Menu Boards with Nutritional Labeling
Summary
According to Mr. Friedman, "By creatively combining information, motion, imagery and food photography, we produce visually compelling multimedia menus and promotions to help sell menu items and enhance the dining experience.Epicure Digital’s clients include colleges and universities, hospitals, K-12 Schools, independent and chain restaurants, contract food service companies, business & industry, and cinemas and casinos among others.Digital menu boards are at the battlefront, ready to combat childhood obesity and educate students to make healthier food choices.A health impact assessment conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and published on the Center for Science in the Public Interest website on “Menu Labeling as a Potential Strategy for Combating the Obesity Epidemic” concluded that “Using conservative assumptions that calorie postings would result in 10% of large chain restaurant patrons ordering reduced calorie meals, with an average reduction of 100 calories per meal, and no compensatory increase in other food consumption, menu labeling would avert 38.9% of the 6.75 million pound average annual weight gain in the county population aged 5 years and older.All of this data can be easily entered manually or imported from third party nutritional scoring and food service management systems such as Computrition® Hospitality Suite®.Epicure Digital was founded by Harvey Friedman, a software developer and restaurateur.Over the next nine years, Mr. Friedman combined his experience operating a restaurant chain with his interest in emerging digital technologies to develop what is now known as the Epicure Digital Menu System.According to Mr. Friedman, "By creatively combining information, motion, imagery and food photography, we produce visually compelling multimedia menus and promotions to help sell menu items and enhance the dining experience.