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Online ordering for employees
We are rolling out an online ordering system for hospital employees, which could soon include a mobile app.
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Wrapping up trends from NAFEM
Many manufacturers are downsizing their equipment to fit smaller foodservice footprints.
The Healthy School Meals Realized through Techonology (SMART) Schools is a program designed by preventative medicine experts to track students’ food choices when cafeteria workers scan a student’s identification card and log their food selections. Parents receive a monthly report card that summarizes the food selections that their children have made.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center at Mission Bay will employ 25 robots to traverse the 800,000-square-foot hospital, carrying food trays, pharmaceuticals, and even blood and tissue samples to appropriate parts of the facility. Employees who used to make such deliveries will be assigned other, more meaningful duties, say administrators.