Smaller portions for kids at Biggs?

With children’s waistlines expanding, Mr. Biggs Family Fun Center in Colorado Springs is eliminating its all-you-can-eat pizza buffet in favor of more healthy alternatives.

“There’s nothing right about selling kids all-you-can-eat pizza,” said Steve Bigari, coowner and chief executive officer of Mr. Biggs.

So even though the $4.99 buffet has been a success financially, Bigari said, it will be replaced in the next month or two with a line of “healthful, low-fat, greatvalue options.”

A salad buffet will remain and cost less. There will still be pizza, but it will be sold by the slice and will include a whole-wheat, low-fat pizza. Kid favorites such as fries will be available but sold in moderation, alongside new options such as turkey burgers and panini sandwiches.

Bigari, a former McDonald’s franchisee who sold his dozen McDonald’s restaurants in 2006, said the decision to end the Mr. Biggs buffet is a bad one from a business standpoint. But with childhood obesity labeled a growing crisis, he said, “I don’t see that I have a choice.”