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Eating with fun at Movenpick
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 12 - 2011

Monkeys, millipedes and little bears will come along with the new children's healthy menu at the Movenpick Hotels and Resorts.
The new “Power Bites” menu makes eating out a child's play in over 30 hotels across the Middle East and Asia, Movenpick said in a statement.
In the kitchen of the Movenpick Hotels and Resorts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, strange and wonderful things are going to happen on November 15.
you can see a tiny farm girl raking spaghetti from a tube, a small bear is peeking from a mug, a mini hard-hat workman putting tomato in a burger and a little girl struggling to keep monkeys away from the cake pops.
“We're having fun launching our new children's menu,” laughs Peter Drescher, Vice President of Food & Beverage, Middle East and Asia. “These days children have constant sources of entertainment in the form of iPads, phones and games. So, we have to be equally entertaining with our food.”
But of course, like all great fun, the new children's ‘Power Bites' menu has a serious point.
“Childhood obesity and heart disease are modern concerns so all our ingredients are low in fat, use low sodium salt and lean meat. We use lots of fruit and vegetables and don't use saturated fats,” he said.
The results are wonderful. Scuba toys prepare to dive into a bowl of mixed fruit, monkeys race up leaves to fresh banana smoothies, a workman examines tomato sauce for organic sausages, a mini-shopping trolley carries rice cakes and a tomato-headed millipede crawls across a plate on cucumber feet.
“Food should be fun and if it's nutritious so much the better,” says Drescher. “We invite children to eat with their fingers, paint carrots, arrange little characters. It's important that restaurants become welcoming places for children and make them enjoy. After all families go out to eat to have fun. We're just here to help.”
The ‘Power Bites' menu is available now at selected restaurants in M?venpick Hotels & Resorts across the Middle East and Asia.
In addition, to celebrate the launch of the menu, a special “Power Bites” offer is available for families staying at the participating hotels.


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