12 Jan 2019 03:29 AM

Patient food experience with redbean hospitality catering

Have you ever been admitted to a hospital and had the opportunity of trying food served to patients at a hospital? What was your experience like? I am sure for majority of us the experience was an unpleasant one. Boiled food that is bland and lacking in flavour is not at all appetizing especially when you are recuperating. Ask anyone who has ever been hospitalized about their food experience at the hospital and they will mention how bad the food was. It is a household joke that when a dish has not been prepared well, it is said that why are you serving us food given to patients. This myth needs to be broken. Food served in the hospital to patients can be tasty and nutritious. This is possible with modern and pioneering Healthcare catering services who strive to make the food experience for patients in hospitals exciting and enriching. Nutritious food is so important while you are recovering from an ailment. It gives you the much-needed energy to recover and boosts your morale to get better. Hospitals need to make sure to select the right Healthcare catering services to ensure that balanced and tasty meals are served to the patient. Medicine and other forms of therapy are very important while recovering, equally important is the food served to the patient. The hospital authorities should give equal importance and attention to food along with drugs and other forms of treatment given to the patient. Equal attention and importance must be given to the food experience of the patient while he is in the hospital. Hospitals should hire hospital catering services who are innovative in their approach. They must be ready to try out new ideas and innovations in providing excellent patient food experience. This is slowly, but surely happening in all major hospitals with a lot of scope for improvement. For better food experience the following trends are being implemented in most hospitals leading to positive change.

• “Call to Order” room service food delivery model where patients order by telephone from their hospital rooms anytime.
• Trained chefs creating customized meals depending on the requirement of the patient.
• Some of the fruits and veggies are even grown on the premises, in the medical centre's terrace gardens. Use of local and organic produce and supplies are given more importance.
• The advent of on-demand dining, restaurant-style menus.
• Hospital catering services keep altering their menus to avoid menu fatigue and create a new way to engage with patients.

The Food Services Industry is avast one. Gone are the days when catering services was used only for weddings or parties. Nowadays, corporate catering, institutional catering, hostel catering, etc. are also equally popular and in huge demand. Food is medicine – it is part of health care and not a utility – both hospitals and healthcare catering services should understand this and strive to work to bring a change in the food experience of patients admitted in a hospital.