When a patient is staying in the hospital, they may have certain dietary needs. However, even if a doctor has not imposed a dietary restriction on a patient, they may also have their own personal reasons for adjusting their diet. The last thing you want is a patient going hungry
If you are trying to change the way patients view food at your facility, you are not alone. The perception of food in hospitals is not positive, and this is sad because nutrition plays such a big role in health and recovery. How are individually quick frozen (IQF) meals becoming
One of the things that can be a challenge for the hospital kitchen is providing meals for patients with special dietary needs. This is particularly true when it comes to patients who are gluten sensitive. Culinary Specialties has developed some new and customizable menu items in 2019 that can help
Patient outcomes in a hospital involve many different factors. Obviously, the quality of the doctors, staff, and the facility are of the utmost importance. However, food quality can also have an effect. After all, proper nutrition helps us to heal, and there is reason to believe that a good mental
That’s what your staff and patients will say (or at least think) when they try your new menu items at the cafeteria or in a patient room. How can you make that big of an improvement without updating your kitchen area or hiring a chef? We’re about to give you
The reputation for food at hospitals isn’t much better than that of schools and prisons. People almost expect food to be bad at a hospital. But that doesn’t mean you need to live up (or in this case, down) to their expectations. You can offer appetizing hospital food without having
How do most patients think of hospital food? They imagine a lump of meat under some thick brown gravy, some microwaved frozen vegetable that is either overcooked or too cold, a dry roll, and a brownie that seems like it’s made from plastic. If that’s the kind of criticism you
No one is happy to have to be in a hospital, but one of the things that people are often most disappointed with is the food. What if you could deliver your patients meals that both look and taste good without having to hire on a chef or expand your
Food is a great way to build the morale of both your staff and the patients residing at your medical facility. However, there is a reason that hospitals have the reputation that they do when it comes to food. With all of the overhead that comes along with running a
Let’s face it – hospitals have a bad reputation for offering sub-par food both to patients as well as to the staff who comes through the cafeteria. Why hire a professional chef just to increase your hospital’s food game? If you want to keep costs down but make the food