It’s a familiar dilemma among food managers responsible for purchasing new equipment: on the one hand you welcome the opportunity to upgrade worn-out gear. On the other, there is the...
These days in Canada there’s a growing interest in Room Service for patient feeding, an idea that promotes all day meal service using touchtone phones or touchscreen television systems to...
Hello Everyone! With the Christmas holiday season (and party) fast approaching, I felt it fitting to discuss the topic of holiday eating. To preface our discussion, I would like to...
Stress is an inevitable part of our lives, it’s sometimes good and sometimes bad. It can cause us to be more efficient, or it can simply make us go crazy. ...
Preparing hundreds of pre-poured coffees and teas each day for your patients or residents? If your operation uses an automatic cup-filling machine to pour five cups at one time then...
Our body requires seven things to function properly: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, water and air. However, next to air, water is the item most necessary for survival. A normal...
1. Conventional Ordering Method – while slowly becoming an archaic method, we do still see cases of passing meal plans ( a daily menu selection sheet) to patients for them...
Nice guys finish last, so the saying goes, and so what better name for this ingenious equipment than the letter Z. It’s not because the Z Rack is a nice...
It is true, environmentalism is here to stay. Everywhere we go we hear the mantra ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. It is the right thing to do. At Burlodge we can find...
A reality in Canada’s Health Care Foodservice operations is Food Outsourcing – obtaining food products in ready to eat (RTE) formats from reputable food manufacturers. In Europe this concept has...
Take the ingredients of the global innovation to serve hot food hot and cold food cold called the RTS and add some carbon fibre to lighten the load, powerful refrigeration...
In the late 1980s, following discussions with clients, legislative bodies and healthcare experts across Canada, Burlodge Canada Ltd. identified the primary challenges healthcare managers were facing in the delivery of...
Sometimes, it takes a thoroughly fresh approach to the accepted norm in order to change not just perceptions, but in this case, tastes. That’s the innovative thinking behind apetito’s unique...
At Burlodge we’ve always emphasized the importance of great design – of creating equipment that that combines functionality, effciency and durability with great visual appeal and, above all, an appreciation...
For many hospitals and health centres there’s been a steady of growth of single use dishware over the past decade. The increased use can be attributed to stringent standards around...