BC Municipal Recreation Facility
Food Environment Audit Tool
BC Municipal Recreation Facility Food Environment Audit Tool
Personal Information:
Name: ___________________________
Position: _________________________
Contact Info:
Phone: __________________
Email: _____________________
Facility Information:
Facility type (check all that apply):
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Pool
Arena
Field House
Sports Fields
Mixed use ‘events’ facility e.g. (Save-on-Foods Memorial Center )
Recreation Center (programming)
Number of full time staff ___________
Number of part time staff___________
Municipality / community / area served __________________________________
Population of area served ___________
Research Contact Information:
Patti-Jean Naylor
pjnaylor@uvic.ca
250 721-7844
School of Physical Education
University of Victoria
PO Box 3015 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3P1
Canada
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Part A:
FOOD PROVISION
1. Does your facility have a food or beverage service or other food related contracts with any
suppliers? (For example, many facilities have exclusive contracts with companies like Pepsi™
or Coca-Cola™ to stock vending machines. Other facilities may contract out food service to
companies such as Subway™.) Please tick one.
 Yes
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No
IF YES - Please identify the company or companies that have such contracts with your facility.
Also, please tick whether or not these are exclusive contracts.
Exclusive
Exclusive
Exclusive
1.
2.
3.
Not Exclusive
Not Exclusive
Not Exclusive
2. Does your facility have a corporate incentive program (e.g. rental fees) in place involving food
or beverage items or service? Please tick one.
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Yes
No
IF YES - Please identify the company or companies with which you have an incentive program.
1.
2.
3.
3. Does your facility have food or beverage company advertisements or logos on site or on
facility property? Please tick one.
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 Yes
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No
IF YES - Please identify the company or companies.
1.
2.
3.
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4. Does a food or beverage corporation sponsor any Programs and/or Activities at your facility?
Please tick one.
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Yes
No
IF Yes - Please identify the company or companies.
1.
2.
3.
5. Do foundations such as the BC Dairy Foundation sponsor Programs and Activities at your
facility? Please tick one.
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Yes
No
IF Yes - Please identify the foundation(s).
1.
2.
3.
6. What type of food selling facilities are on site? Check all that apply.
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Cafeteria – Publicly funded and/or operated
Cafeteria - Privately operated contractor
Snack Bar – Publicly funded and/or operated
Snack Bar- Privately operated contractor
Snack Vending Machines – publicly funded and / or operated
Snack Vending Machines – privately operated /contractor
Beverage Vending Machines – publicly funded and / or operated
Beverage Vending Machines – privately operated / contractor
Fund-raising food tables by clubs (intermittent)
7. Is there influence or control from facility staff in regards to what types of foods are sold?
Please tick one.
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Yes
No
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8. Are children in out-of-school or daycare programs provided meals or snacks on site?
Please tick one.
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Yes
No
If YES go to Questions 9, 9a, 9b, & 9c
If NO skip to Question 10
9. Tick the best description of the meals that you provide for out-of-school or daycare programs
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free
sponsored or
provided within the cost of the program
9a) Please describe how the meals are provided and who provides them.
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9b) Is there input from facility staff in regards to what types of meals and/or snacks provided for
the children?
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Yes
No
9c) Which, if any, of the following are limitations to purchasing healthy food?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Budget
Storage
Preparation
Preservability
Other (Please specify)
 Yes
 No
 Yes
 No
 Yes
 No
 Yes
 No
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10. Do you have any policies or standards in place governing the types of food sold or provided
for child/youth programs on site? If so please describe these and if you have a copy please attach
to this questionnaire.
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PART B: VENDING MACHINES
1. How many BEVERAGE vending machines are in the facility? _____________
If none, → go to QUESTION 3.
2. Rate the accessibility of the beverage vending machines to children.
Circle the applicable number.
Limited
1
Unlimited
2
3
e.g. located in low traffic
areas; not available during
facility hours
4
e.g. located in high traffic
areas; no restrictions on
times available
3. How many SNACK vending machines are in the facility? _____________
If none, → go to Part C.
4. Rate the accessibility of the snack vending machines to children.
Circle the applicable number.
Limited
1
e.g. located in low traffic
areas; not available during
facility hours
Unlimited
2
3
4
e.g. located in high traffic
areas; no restrictions on
times available
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PART B: BEVERAGE VENDING MACHINES
5. MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE ALL OF THE MACHINES IN THE FACILITY - For each machine, count the number of selections in each category and record this number in the table below. If
there are selections in the machines that do not fit in any of the categories listed, please specify these under the category “Other”. Please make and complete additional copies of this table, if necessary.
Beverage Categories
Sugar* Sweetened Caffeine-Free Drinks
*“Sugar” includes all added sugars: sugar, sucrose,
fructose, dextrose, maltose, syrups (cane, rice, corn,
maple), high fructose corn syrup, honey.
Sugar Sweetened Caffeinated Drinks
Artificially Sweetened Caffeine-Free Drinks
Water
100% fruit or vegetable juice, no added
sugars, unseasoned
100% fruit or vegetable juice, unsweetened,
lightly seasoned
100% fruit or vegetable juice, unsweetened,
regularly seasoned
Milk
Basic flavoured milk drinks
Candy Bar Flavoured milk drinks, milkshakes
Coffee containing milk drinks
Regular Coffee, black tea, green tea
Decaffeinated coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify)
Total Number Of Selections In Each
Description
Caffeine-Free Colas; All other Pop except Barq’sTM Root Beer;
Caffeine-Free Ice tea; SobeTM, Hot Chocolate, Sports drinks (e.g.
PoweradeTM);
Fruit Punch/Drink/Cocktails (e.g. Five-aliveTM, SnappleTM, Tropicana
TwisterTM, V8 SplashTM, FruitopiaTM), Flavoured water (sweetened)
Regular Colas; Barq’sTM Root Beer; Ice tea; Caffeinated Drinks like
SobeTM Adrenaline Rush, Red BullTM, etc
Diet Caffeine-Free Colas; all other Diet Pop except Diet Barq’sTM
Root Beer; Caffeine-Free Diet Ice tea; Diet SobeTM, Diet Hot
Chocolate, Diet Fruit Punch/Drink/Cocktails, Diet Flavoured water
(artificially sweetened)
(include unsweetened flavoured water)
(e.g. 100% Apple Juice, 100% Juice combos)
(eg. V8 Original Low Sodium TM)
(eg. tomato juice, V8 OriginalTM)
(plain white milk)
(chocolate, strawberry etc.)
(eg. Starbucks TM)
Machine Machine Machine Machine Machine Machine Machine
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
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PART B: SNACK VENDING MACHINES
6. MAKE SURE YOU COUNT ALL MACHINES IN THE FACILITY - For each machine, count the number of items in each snack category and record this number in the table below. If there are
selections in the machines that don’t fit within any of the categories listed, specify these under the category “Other”. Please make and complete additional copies of this table, if necessary.
Snack Vending Categories
Cheesies; Potato/corn/wheat or rice chips or crackers
(fried), bag size 40 g or less
Cheesies; Potato/corn/wheat or rice chips or crackers
(fried), bag size more than 40 g
Pretzels; popcorn; potato/corn/wheat or rice chips or
crackers (baked), bag size 40 g or less
Pretzels; popcorn; potato/corn/wheat or rice chips or
crackers (baked), bag size more than 40 g
Granola/ breakfast/ sports bars with candies, chocolate,
sugary cereal, or coating
Granola/breakfast/ sports bars without candies,
chocolate, sugary cereal, or coating
Dried fruit, fruit or vegetable bars (eg. SunRype Fruit
Source TM, Rebar TM)
Chocolate bars; candies; fruit flavoured Roll- ups™ and
gummy-bear type candies
Nuts and trail mix, no added sugars
Nuts and trail mix, nut bars, with added sugars or
honey
Pastries; muffins; cookies; squares; donuts; cakes; rice
krispie squares
Ice cream or frozen yoghurt
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify)
Total Number of Selections in each machine
Machine #1
Machine #2
Machine #3
Machine #4
Machine #5
Machine #6
Machine #7
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7. For only the items listed in the following table, please record the typical price in the snack
vending machines.
Item
Fried snack products such as
potato chips, bag size more
than 40 g
Typical price
Baked snack products such as
baked potato chips, bag size
more than 40 g
Chocolate bar or similar
candy product
Granola/ breakfast bar
without candies, chocolate,
sugary cereal, or coating
PART C: CAFETERIA/ SNACK BAR
1. Do you have a cafeteria or snack bar
 YES
If your facility does not have a cafeteria or snack bar, → go to Part D.
 NO
2. What are the hours of operation of the cafeteria/snack bar? ________________________
3. Who operates the cafeteria/snack bar? (e.g. private company, PAC etc.) ____________
4. Is the cafeteria used as a Teaching Kitchen?
Yes  No
5. In an average week how many bags of chips are sold? ____________
6. In an average week how many hot dogs are sold? __________
7. How often are items with whole grain bread, buns, or pizza crusts offered?
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Always
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Sometimes
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Rarely
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Never
Comments:
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8. Please conduct a “walk through” of the cafeteria/snack bar at lunchtime and complete the
following table. List the food and beverage items served by the categories in the table. The
itemization need not be too detailed. Please make and complete additional copies of this table, if
necessary.
Category
Lunch Entrees (e.g.
sandwiches, subs,
burgers, hotdogs, pasta,
pizza, vegetarian stew)
Side Orders (e.g. baked
or fried french fries,
green salad, veggie tray,
soup)
Beverages (e.g. milk,
chocolate milk, 100%
fruit juice, fruit
flavoured drinks, pop)
Desserts/Bakery Items
(e.g. date squares, whole
grain muffins, jello,
cookies, fresh fruit)
Food and Beverage Items in the Cafeteria/Snack Bar
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9. For only the items listed in the following table, please record the regular menu price in the
cafeteria/snack bar.
If available, please attach a copy of the cafeteria/snack bar menu to the report.
Item
Large french fries
Typical Price
Hot dog
Meat/tuna or veggie sandwich
Side salad or veggies and dip
Apple or similar piece of fruit
Part D:
Food Sale Fundraisers
If available, please attach a copy of a typical food order form to the report.
1. During 2005, how many food sale fundraisers (hot dog days, pizza days, PAC lunch) were
held at the facility?
If none, go to → Part E.
2. Please list the main foods (hot dogs, pizza etc.) and the supplementary foods (pop, chips, ice
cream, etc) served at each of the food sale fundraisers during 2005.
Event
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Main Food Items Sold
Supplementary Food Items Sold
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Part E:
Facility Food Policies and Guidelines
1. Is there a committee in place to promote healthy eating at the facility? Yes No
If yes, please list the titles and positions of all the representatives including both internal staff
and external people or agencies.
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2. Please complete the following table describing the current status of food policies and
guidelines at the facility.
If available, please attach a copy of the facility guidelines and policies for the facility to the
report.
Facility food policies or
guidelines
Not
Applicable
In Place
Under
Development
None/not
considering
Types of food sold in facility
vending machines.
Types of food sold in facility
cafeterias.
Types of food sold at facility
stores.
Types of food sold at facility
special events and field trips.
Types of food provided in
children’s programs
Fundraising by selling food
outside the facility.
Differential pricing to promote
healthy food choices by making
them equally affordable.
Discouraging the use of food as
a reward in programs.
Limiting access to less
nutritious foods during facility
hours.
Discouraging the use of food as
a reward at events
Other: Please specify
Other: Please specify
3. If there are food policies or guidelines in place, how are these monitored?
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Part F: Programs and Initiatives
1. Please provide additional information on the facility’s efforts to promote healthy eating and
decrease the sale of unhealthy food choices.
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2. Do you have any programs or initiatives (day, evening or after-school) underway to educate
children or the public about healthy food choices? Please list and describe.
Name of Program/Activity
Program or Activity Description
Status (check one)
Planned
Under Development
Being Implemented
Planned
Under Development
Being Implemented
Planned
Under Development
Being Implemented
Planned
Under Development
Being Implemented
Planned
Under Development
Being Implemented
Planned
Under Development
Being Implemented
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Part G. Availability of Food for Municipal Recreation Employees
The next set of questions will ask about social events for employees, the type of food that is
made available and whether there are policies or guidelines in place which strongly suggests
that food for municipal recreation employees must meet nutritional guidelines.
1. Is there such policy at your recreation facility for:
Please circle
Internal meetings?
YES / NO
External meetings ?
YES / NO
Social gatherings among employees? YES / NO
2a.
In the past two weeks, how many internal and external meetings did you attend that
provided food? ______ (provide the number) → IF 0 SKIP TO QUESTION 3a
2b
Rate the nutritional value of the food provided at meetings:
Circle the applicable number
1
2
3
4
None or almost
none of the
food meets
nutritional
guidelines
5
All food
provided meet
nutritional
guidelines
3a.
How many social gatherings among employees, where food is served, do you typically
have in a month? ________ (provide the number) → IF 0 SKIP TO QUESTION 4
3b.
Rate the nutritional value of the food provided at social gatherings?
Circle the applicable number
1
2
None or almost
none of the
food meet
nutritional
guidelines
3
4
5
All food
provided meet
nutritional
guidelines
4.
Do your work colleagues bring sweets from home and leave it in the employee’s kitchen
for everyone to eat? Please tick
YES
NO
5.
If YES, how often does this typically occur in a month?
____ About once a month
____ About twice a month
____ About three times per month
____ About four times per month
____ More than four times per month
Thank you for your time!