Introduction

Herbie Healthnut, a child millionaire, is opening a new restaurant in your town. This restaurant will feature healthy recipes that children will enjoy. He has hired your team of workers for his new restaurant. He needs a chef to prepare healthy meals and assist in menu planning. The dietician approves meals according to the food guide pyramid and assists in menu planning. The safety inspector is in charge of being sure food safety steps are followed. The manager will handle the advertising of the restaurant and promote the sale of the specialty cookbook. The manager will also help the staff work together.

A challenge for your team will be to come up with a name for the restaurant. This name must be catchy and promote healthy eating for children. All products your team create must send this healthy eating message.

Roles

Manager - Develop advertising materials. "Sell" specialty cookbook. Design menu based on recipes from chef and dietician.

Chef - Develop recipes for restaurant. Prepare meals. Assist in designing menu.

Dietician - Approve recipes chosen by the chef, stating why the recipes were approved. Make pamphlet for healthy eating to give to customers. Assist in design of menu.

Safety Instructor -Give clinic on safe food preparation, handling, and employee actions. Make poster of safe actions to be posted in kitchen and restrooms.

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Your first task is to complete the activities in the Pyramid Cafe Workbook (cover and pages 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22) to show that you understand how the food pyramid works. Once you have successfully completed this mission, you may move on to the next task.

Your second task is to come up with a name for your restaurant based on the type of food that is being offered. Remember, the goal is to have a restaurant that serves nutritious, kid-friendly meals.

Chef and Dietician- Based on the name of your restaurant, your next task is to develop recipes that will be used by the chef to make the meals. (To find recipes, check out the web sites below.) The dietician must approve the recipes chosen to ensure they are healthy and the portions are correct. To do this, you should use the food pyramid as a guide. These recipes will be used to make up the menu. You will need to find foods to serve for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desert. (Remember, the drinks must be healthy as well.)

Recipes

Click on the links in the table.

Chef and Manager - Using the recipes found, your next task is to design and develop a menu to be used in your restaurant. It is important to make your menu easy to read and understand. Pictures of the foods are always a plus.

Dietician - The next task is to develop a pamphlet with tips for healthy eating to give to customers. This way, the patrons can understand why you are serving the foods you have chosen, along with the portion sizes. Your customers can also take these tips home and hopefully eat well on their own. Use the links below to help you.

Servings and Nutrients

Serving Sizes

Nutrients

more Nutrients

Food Guide Pyramid

Manager and team - Next,your team must come up with a slogan and advertising materials (logo,menu colors, etc.) to promote the grand opening of the restaurant.

Menu

The grand opening of your new restaurant is almost here! Your next step is to train the employees on safety and health standards.

Safety Inspector - The employees need to be told about sanitary procedures and the kitchen staff needs to be told about health standards for preparing and storing food. Prepare your posters.

Food Safety

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You will be assigned a team. Decide who will be working on each role. Use your Pyramid Cafe Workbook, that was handed out in class. The Internet sites will be helpful sources for healthy recipes, food safety habits, tips for healthy eating and the food guide pyramid. (There is also a link that you can use as a guide for your menus.) Be sure you use your theme, advertising method, recipes and menu to promote healthy eating.

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Each team member will receive an individual grade for the portion that they contributed to the overall project. This will be based on the project piece their role had to create. Each team member will be observed for contribution to the teamwork and organization of the project.

Rubric - view of grading

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When you have completed this webquest, you will have learned a great deal about the food guide pyramid as well as how you can use it to plan healthy meals for yourself and your family.You will have also practiced using the computer to find information and make many different documents. Think about what you learned during this project. Do you know a lot more now than you did before you started?

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