Perris Municipal Code Ch. 7.46 Default Beverages Offered in Children's Meals

The purpose of this chapter is to support children's health by requiring healthy beverages to be offered as the default beverage included with restaurant children's meals.

(Ord. No. 1340, § 2, 3-14-2017)

For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

Children's meal. A combination of food, or food item(s) and a beverage, sold together at a single price, primarily intended for consumption by children.

Restaurant. A food establishment that serves food to customers for consumption on or off premises, including fast-food and full-service dining establishments. It includes, but is not limited to, drive-through or walk-up counters, coffee shops, cafes, pizza parlors, and dine-in establishments. A restaurant, for purposes of this chapter, may provide alcoholic beverage sales for drinking on premises provided that such sales are ancillary to food service.

Default beverage. The beverage automatically included or offered as part of a children's meal, absent a specific request by the purchaser of the children's meal for an alternative beverage.

(Ord. No. 1340, § 2, 3-14-2017)

(a) A restaurant that sells a children's meal that includes a beverage shall make the default beverage offered with the children's meal one of the following:

(1) Water, sparkling water, or flavored water, with no added natural or artificial sweeteners;

(2) Milk or non-dairy milk alternatives; or

(3) 100 percent juice, with no added sweeteners, in a serving size of no more than eight ounces.

(b) Nothing in this section prohibits a restaurant's ability to sell, or a customer's ability to purchase, a substitute or alternative beverage instead of the default beverage offered with a children's meal, if requested by the purchaser of the children's meal.

(Ord. No. 1340, § 2, 3-14-2017)

In addition to all other available remedies at law, this chapter shall be enforceable through the use of the administrative citation procedures set forth in Perris Municipal Code chapter 1.18, section 1.18.010.

(Ord. No. 1340, § 2, 3-14-2017)