Hospitals & Long-term Care

Menu

Soup Season

Fall is just around the corner. Get a jump-start on soup season with some cream-based options that are sure to comfort and satisfy your customers. 

Steal This Idea

Never Say No

We had a learning moment for our employees when we had a patient who wanted peas. Peas weren’t on the menu that day, but we did have them in house.  

Used to be, if you wanted to guarantee a dish’s popularity, just fry it. But as both diners and public policy makers have continued to push for healthier meal options, non-commercial operators are leaving fried foods by the wayside in favor of those

One of the complaints people make about the push to get Americans to eat more healthfully is that it costs too much.

Jennifer Evans, Manager, Patient Services Call Center UNC Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., has reprogrammed the diet office system and developing systems and protocols to run the new call center. Plus, she's also eveloping a feedback/rating system in

Concerns about healthy food and overall well-being are here to stay. So what exactly is working for non-commercial operators in the struggle to promote wellness? We spoke to operators to get 25 tips from their successful health and wellness programs.

One of the most exciting aspects of my move from New York City to Chicagoland is the opportunity to begin touring the Midwest to see foodservice operations that once required a plane ride and a few days out of the office to visit. I’m envisioning a fall filled with day trips to local colleges, hospitals, schools and corporations.

Here's a look at six of the proposed menu items for Rush Medical Center's planned restaurant-style patient menu.

Click through a Snapshots of all the recipes for the August 2013 issue. This month features unqiue sandwiches, salads and more.

We make our own gelato. Recently we started inviting staff to sign up to make the gelato for a day.  

  • Page 157