Without the resources of large corporations, operators are taking extra steps to ensure diners’ health. Local sourcing helps operators tell a story with their ingredients, but after an E. coli...
Cultural sensitivity in healthcare food service
Allergens in Foodservice
Debunking The Egg Cholesterol Myth
Low Sodium Diet: The New Regular
Think Local
Controlling Food Waste and Increasing Patient Satisfaction
Dressing up Dysphagia Diets
Hospital Food Around the World
Food Safety: Training Ideas for Staff
DESSERT TROLLEY IN LONG TERM CARE? WHY NOT
Gluten Free and Healthy?
Wheatgrass: Detoxify Like Ironman!
Harold, A Purple Crayon, and Customer Service
Hygiene Is a Go
Musings
Articles
In my job I get the privilege of traveling and seeing all sorts of operations in healthcare, assisted living and memory care facilities. I always spend a portion of my...
6 lessons from MenuDirections 2/29/2016 What I learned from MenuDirections: FSDs are a cardiologist’s dream3/2/2016 At MenuDirections 2016, FoodService Director’s culinary conference, which wrapped this week, attendees headed home with...
Our blog this week focuses on an article about buying local. At Burlodge we are committed to helping clients use local, fresh ingredients. We have put together a program called...
We’ve all heard it: “Eggs are high in cholesterol and cholesterol causes heart attacks, so don’t eat too many eggs.” The trouble with that statement is that it’s based on...
Although sodium is required for certain bodily functions such as transmission of nerve impulses and the contraction and relaxation of muscles, it is important to stay within the recommended guidelines...
Imagine going to the hospital for a minor surgery and being offered a chicken breast entrée for dinner featuring “locally-raised poultry”. Or imagine visiting a relative at a long-term care...
Controlling food costs and expenses within the foodservice department in a hospital can be very challenging. Food waste contributes to these expenses, therefore FSMs/FSSs are always trying to find ways...
With the older adult population, there is an increase in the number of people who have suffered from a stroke, have dementia or Alzheimer’s and may develop side effects that...
Hidden Lessons for the Healthcare Foodservice Industry? Have you read the Buzzfeed article”Hospital Food Around the World” article? I’ve recently come across it—apparently I’m the last person in the...