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One On One With: Johns Hopkins Health System experiments with remote-order strategies

Dr. Angelo Mojica, senior director of food & culinary services for the Johns Hopkins Health System, talks about remote-order-based initiatives the dining program has launched or is looking at launching in the near future.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

March 5, 2021

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Remote ordering has been around for years. In the onsite dining world, its major penetration has been in the college market, where there is a ready-made population of tech-savvy customers already used to living online. However, cultural trends, financial pressures and—of course—the coronavirus pandemic have prompted more operations across all segments to look at this and other technology options.

Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore is one major healthcare system looking into the potential of remote-order technology to provide enhanced customer service while keeping costs in check. The health system’s in-house dining program recently initiated deployment of a remote-order system based on the GrubHub platform targeted at security guards, a customer segment that obviously has to be around 24 hours a day. As an added benefit, the initiative is designed to encourage the guards to choose healthy meal options.

In this Food Management One On One With podcast, Dr. Angelo, Mojica, senior director of food & culinary services for Johns Hopkins Health, talks about this initiative and further extensions of the remote-order technology being planned for deployment later this year.

Food Management · One On One With: Johns Hopkins Health System experiments with remote-order strategies

 

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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