One of the top requests we get from our Healthiest Maryland Businesses is for help in improving food and beverage vending so that employees have healthy options. We've compiled some excellent tools that can get you started-everything from sample guidelines and policies, to model contracts, to point of decision posters that will nudge your employees in the right direction.

Is your vending due for a makeover?

Applying nutrition standards for foods and beverages in vending machines can improve access to healthier selections. These model standards were developed for the federal government, but they can be adopted by any worksite.

There are many great "how-to" guides, and we have listed a few. Take a look and see which works for you.

Improving the food environment through nutrition standards: a guide for government procurement

Blueprint for Healthier Vending (City of Chicago)

Healthy Vending Toolkit (King County, WA)

Be a marketing pro-use the 4 Ps!

Products Keep the majority of options healthy and appealing

Placement Have the healthy foods at eye level

Promotion Let employees know which choices are healthier with labels, stickers, etc. Check out these posters

Price the healthier options to be less expensive

HEALTHIEST MARYLAND
Where the healthiest choice
is easy.

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

HEALTHIEST MARYLAND BUSINESSES

Nicole Morris, MS, RN

Regional Coordinator

Mid/Upper Eastern Shore

410.778.2533

nicole.morris@maryland.gov

Made possible with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, and Community Transformation Grants.