San Francisco Defeats McDonald's

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 Blaming McDonalds is so ridiculous. The adults take them there replacing home cooked meals for an easy way out.  I let my children eat their happy meals.  They get plenty of exercise and I buy the toys only and bring them home if that is what they really want is just the toy.  Sometimes instead of the fries, I will substitute those for a healthy portion of vegetables to eat with the nuggets or hamburger.  Parents step up and stop blaming others for your child's weight problem.  Gee Whiz!

Banning the toys sold with fast food won't make kids healthier.  I think the focus should be on healthy families - healthy groceries, making nutritous meals together, being active together.  It's about a healthy lifestyle and that means everything in moderation.  I don't eat fast food often but sometimes I enjoy a #3 from McDonald's, I would hate to have that taken away by the govenment. blog.mydiscoverhealth.com

I don't get it -- I thought these options have been available for quite some time (at least 2 years maybe?). And not just "hidden" -- they are options on the menu board. Am I missing something? Maybe this has only been the case in CA or the Bay Area and they are expanding it? I'm confused... Anyhow, my kids will voluntarily choose the apples about 80% of the time, and milk or apple juice about 50% of the time (and it's easy to convince them otherwise those times they do want soda). I think parents (myself included) and companies underestimate kids' willingness to eat healthier. 

You are absolutely right.."Guess what? Just like in the World Series, San Francisco won!" When SF really cares about something, we are not afraid of being laughed-at.  It is refreshing to see this kind of spirit alive and well in San Francisco again, this story would made Herb Caen's column for sure... 

Those healthier options for the kids meals have always been there, you just had to ask!  They may not have been marketed as heavily as they are now, but 9 years ago when my now pre-teen was a toddler it was milk and apple slices - and they were not a soggy mess.So I wouldn't say that SF "won" anything, I'd say that McDonald's is now on the healthy kid badwagon.

I do not understand. Washington has had Washington grown Apples for years. Option for Milk, chocolate milk, apple juice and can always upgrade to water and sometimes orange juice. In Seattle we have composte, recycling and waste too. It is nearly required to follow the rules to reduce waste. The happy meal packages often promote healthy lifestyle with comic strips. I wonder from posts like this what it must be like other places but if we are this far ahead maybe folks should take a que from Seattle, WA. (We didn't even have to fight for it. The fanchise owners followed nicely)

this is hilariously blunt. mmm... blunts.

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While San Francisco may have defeated McDonald's, it will be McDonald's and any other business that will defeat San Francisco. This city is so business and middle class unfriendly that nobody wants to do business here. Nobody wants to open a business or expand into the city. The company that I work for is already in the process of moving its 7000+ jobs to Phoenix & Denver and others are doing the same Nobody wants anything to do with San Francisco. Go ahead and be smug with your comments. Most of the nation is laughing at us. While the city may have won the battle, it's already losing the war as most middle class jobs/business have gone elsewhere. Good Job San Francisco. For the 1st time in my life I am ashamed of my city.

Get off your righteous high horse already. No one won with San Francisco's regulations. If you really believe in them, they should apply to most Mexican street food (fat much?) and anything else that is deemed unhealthy. 

As for San Francisco changing McDonald's mind, you really have an inflated ego. 

And, please, get over this organic kick. Organically grown has nothing to do with "healthier," and has not been proven to be healthier.

why don't you nosey know it all liberals mind your own business..I wonder how many of these happy meals were paid for with food stamps? We never had these problems until the government got involved in every facet of our lives..yeah we had fat kids back in the 50's..but very few..there was no TV, computer or smart phones to keep them on their asses, they went outside and played..nowdays they can't do that due to all the protected perverts slinking around waiting to prey on them.

strange... those kids [in the picture] aren't even eating happy meals... the drinks and fries are way too big... but, you know, never mind the bad parenting, that's journalism... (i guess without the smaller portions of kid's meals, parents are free to offer their kids the meals that are much higher in calories).  Why not try education if you want the public to be healthier?

I love San Francisco as much as the next person but it's articles like these that make it hard to love (or even like) us. Smug much?

This is actually mirroring what they had to do in the UK. In fact many McDonalds in the UK now sport a green/brown/beige color scheme and promote their salads, fruit, and coffee more. As well as having comfy chairs.

Basically they want to move away from the Red/Yellow = unhealthy fast food image that they helped to create - and associate themselves with their popular (and highly profitable) "cafe items" (coffee, muffins, etc).