Healthcare

Walking tacos could be the poster food for socially distanced partying. Metz leadership team served tacos and mock margaritas to the food service team to recognize their hard work during the coronavirus crisis. Plus, tips to ‘get creative and keep...

Sheila Shepherd, full-time cook for Cura Hospitality at St. Clair Hospital, shares her spare time, stitches stylish masks of her own design (they have pockets!) and sells them at cost to customers at hospital café.

In an effort to assist with recovery and to celebrate being discharged, the hospital’s food service team is creating a box of food and meals to send home with patients.

Dining services in the acute-care Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas, has kept its staff busy operating a mini grocery market for staff, making grab-and-go sandwiches for sale in the café and even assisting nurses with basic tasks.

Do you have a member of your foodservice staff who has performed beyond the call of duty during the coronavirus crisis? Nominate him or her to be a Foodservice Hero to be featured in Food Management magazine.

Dining programs in hospitals are likely to see a short-term surge in patient dining but a continued slump in retail dining.

Chad Myers and the food service team at the Mill Valley Care Center in small-town Iowa had to scramble when communal dining stopped and in-room dining started suddenly. Myers has risen to the challenge and created a cozy, comforting environment...