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Food Management
Top 10 healthcare dining stories of 2021
Mike Buzalka Dec 03, 2021

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Faux taco truck revs up healthcare dining

Bryan Health’s Faux’d pop up “food truck” is one solution for brining back healthcare dining as well as a great example of doing more with less.

Children’s of Alabama makes mealtime fun to keep young patients smiling

All-day breakfast, colorful delivery carts, activity books and friendly faces drive up young patient satisfaction rates at this children’s hospital.

Best Concepts: Eskenazi offers a Passport Menu of global flavors in its retail dining

No better place to go for innovative ideas than the FM Best Concept Award winners, such as this continuous international themed special menu program at Eskenazi Health.

Best Concepts: Mobile carts at Rush Medical center add convenience, reduce cafe congestion

Another Best Concept winner from the healthcare community is this mobile cart program serving busy floor staff that not only adds retail sales but bumps up customer satisfaction while streamlining operational costs and efficiencies.

Beard Award winner debuts hospital-specific concept

Top Chef judge/James Beard Award winner Tom Colicchio opened the first unit of his Root & Sprig concept designed specifically for healthcare environments earlier this year

Hospital nutrition workers create signature meals based on their heritage

Over a span of five weeks, ProMedica Toledo Hospital featured meals developed by individual members of its nutrition staff to highlight their diverse heritages.

Viewpoint: Is Your Hospital Looking to Offer Gluten-Free Programs? Here Are Three Ways to Get Started

This guest column highlighted economic strategies for getting wholesome, tasty gluten-free choices on hospital menus.

Viewpoint: How healthcare food service can refocus on sustainability

Tips on waste tracking, food waste reduction and plant-forward menus from Morrison Healthcare’s national director of wellness and sustainability.

University of California San Francisco Health relaunches delivery in main facility

Early in the year, UCSF Health rebooted a destination delivery service it piloted in 2020 on one of its campuses  and launched a limited delivery program at another

Alaska Native Medical Center is one hospital that really embraces local cuisine, menuing such indigenous comfort foods as seal soup, moose stew and reindeer pot pie.

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