Working together in healthcare dining room meal service

Coming together for mealtimes, it’s a tradition!

We naturally eat more and make better food choices in a communal setting. Creating a dining experience for your residents will see new friendships and growing relationships around the table to keep your residents engaged and active in their community. But ensuring that the food is transported, held, and presented safely at the correct temperatures, while still maintaining its nutritional value and appetising appearance after it leaves the central kitchen is a vital requirement for your dining room meal service.

Healthcare meal service is constantly evolving. Current research suggests that the environment where people eat is just as important as what they are eating. Room design, table place settings, food presentation and aroma are all key elements in creating a dining experience for aged care residents. Investing in their resident’s dining experience, homes are putting the call out to chefs from all backgrounds, to bring their knowledge and experience to create modern comfort food. Embracing fresh food for taste and texture, as well as balancing nutritional requirements.

Within the healthcare and catering industry, the Moffat Group has made their mark in the commercial kitchen segment by manufacturing and supplying new technologies to make a difference in the modern food production in all areas of the food service industry.

SDX Thermobox

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Reliable and robust, SDX Thermobox is for anyone that needs to transport and hold food. Quality and flexibility are the keys, with a simple one-touch operation, SDX Thermobox is designed to move with polyurethane insulation that joins the outer and inner containers to form a strong well-insulated trolley with low energy consumption.

Why choose SDX Thermobox?

Central production kitchen, servicing small communal dining areas means food needs to be transported quickly and safely around facilities whilst maintaining the correct food temperatures. SDX Thermobox is a bulk food transport and holding system available in heated, chilled, and neutral combinations, allowing you to transport your food safely and easily. The simplicity and reliability of SDX allows you to just focus on the food and know that from the moment it has been placed into the SDX and until served the food will be transported and stored in the best way possible.

SDX Thermobox is easy to clean with the interior made entirely of stainless steel with rounded internal corners. Easy to load with the 270 degree opening doors with magnetic catch and pressed pan guides, that take a 1/1 GN size tray. The recessed handles and hinges, coloured ABS exterior panels and protective upper and lower bumpers, all mean that the SDX style is suitable to be seen in shared areas.

Burlodge Multigen

Burlodge has long been the preferred choice for meal delivery service in the Australian Healthcare industry. When it comes to dining room meal service, Burlodge has developed solutions to suit the ever-evolving market and offer modern and easy-to-use systems.

Image: Burlodge Multigen

The Multigen is a multi-portion trolley designed for cook-serve, cook-chill and cook-freeze applications. Ergonomic features ensure manoeuvrability and responsiveness with unique wheel placement and design. Dual convection oven technology delivers perfect food quality, temperature, and presentation. Simple to operate LCD control panel at the operator’s eye level, optional cloud-based HACCP monitoring ensures consistency of operation and compliance. Multigen can be customised to suit your needs with features of heated and chilled sections, plate warmer, illuminated gantry and fold-down shelves, that allow a simple workflow, while ensuring that the freshly prepared meals will maintain safe food temperature as well as appetising presentation until it is served to the diner.

Releasing aroma into the air, the Burlodge Multigen can be used to encourage your residents to the dining room. The smell of fresh baked cookies or a delicious fruit crumble, drifting down the corridors, awakening taste buds and bringing people together.

Connect with us today to learn more about the full range of SDX Thermobox and Burlodge Multigen combinations, to make your meal service easier.

Originally published here.