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Applebee’s and IHOP Will Eliminate Soda From Their Kids’ Menus

A thing of the past.
A thing of the past. Photo: Stockbyte/Getty Images

Two major casual-dining restaurant chains are shaking things up: Both Applebee’s and IHOP — owned by the same parent company, DineEquity — say they’re purging soft drinks from their children’s menus. Health groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest are already praising this as a responsible move toward “making soda for kids a thing of the past.” Kids, of course, aren’t banned from having a soda, DineEquity notes; it’s now just up to parents to clue them into this fact.

These are the first casual-dining restaurants to adopt this plan, but fast-food chains are already on the bandwagon: McDonald’s, though still happy to push Monster energy drinks on Americans, recently removed soda from kids’ menus, joining Wendy’s, Burger King, and Dairy Queen.

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Applebee’s and IHOP Remove Kids’ Sodas