How often do you find yourself wishing your favorite restaurant offered more nutritious choices for kids? If you live in the San Marcos, TX, area, your wait is over. Local favorite, Grins Restaurant, has crafted a kids’ menu your children will gobble up.

Since 1975, Grins Restaurant has been serving up mouthwatering burgers, sizzling fajitas, and succulent steaks that keep customers coming back for more. With fresh vegetable plates, veggie burgers, grilled chicken, and child-sized hamburgers, your little one won’t be starved for variety. 

Are your kids in a chicken-fingers-only phase? Don’t worry—Grins Restaurant has those too. Accompany the classic entrée with broccoli, salad, green beans, or protein-packed pinto beans to create a balanced and delicious meal. Even grown-up vegetarians can indulge at this celebrated local eatery.

But the Grins Restaurant commitment to nutritious choices doesn’t end there. Too often, sugary sodas and juices are the only beverage options on kids’ menus. Unfortunately, these drinks play a critical role in childhood obesity rates, and many parents are speaking up. Lucky for San Marcos residents, Grins Restaurant is listening. Sugary beverages have been removed from the kids’ menu and replaced with milk, tea, and sugar-free fruit punch.

The owner of Grins Restaurant, Paul Sutphen, updated the kids’ menu after Texas State nutrition professor Sylvia Crixell and her students set out to raise awareness of rising obesity rates. Grins Restaurant was one of the first local restaurants to get on board with the new menu options, as Sutphen was moved by Crixell’s statistics. Plus, as a long-time member of the San Marcos community, he wanted to do his part to build a healthier Hays County.

Bring your family to Grins Restaurant for lunch or dinner today and check out the delicious, nutritious kids’ menu options. You can grab a table inside or enjoy ample patio seating. Prefer takeout? Call (512) 392-4746 or place your order online for a filling meal you can feel good about serving your family.