Stress is off the menu: How smart pickup solutions help healthcare workers dine with ease

In busy healthcare settings, where nurses, doctors and other hospital staff work long hours and are tight on time during their breaks, it’s crucial that they’re able to get a meal or snack in a quick and convenient manner. Unfortunately, in many cafeterias, lines can be long, or the order pickup process isn’t set up in a way that’s conducive for grabbing a quick meal.

For instance, to-go and mobile orders may be set out on a table which can take time to sort through to find the correct order. Other times orders may not be ready when a diner comes to pick it up. Or, if the order is ready, employees may be busy with other tasks and can’t immediately hand it off.

All of these situations mean the staff’s valuable break time is lost to waiting around for their food.

An alternative to traditional order pickup

There’s a great alternative, however—smart order pickup solutions help streamline the order pickup process, allowing workers to pick up their food as soon as it’s ready rather than going to the cafeteria and waiting. By making the order pickup process faster and more convenient for staff, breaks are more enjoyable, stress levels during the workday are reduced and the work environment becomes a more positive place.

With smart order pickup solutions from Apex, hospitals and other healthcare facilities can help ensure their staff has plenty of time to eat—all while saving on labor (especially important given the industry’s ongoing labor challenges) and delivering a better dining experience overall.

Apex’s smart order pickup solutions provide contactless order pickup that takes mere seconds, increases throughput during peak hours, and reduces dine-in lines and congestion.

They’re also easy to fit in most facilities—which is why they’re a boon to many foodservice operators.

Gathering useful data

Beyond the time and labor benefits that smart order pickup solutions offer, they also help healthcare operators gain valuable pickup data—how long orders stayed in lockers, number of orders per locker, etc. ApexIQ™ provides data that can help operators further refine their processes, including adding more pickup locker solutions if needed to meet demand. The data also helps to ensure that employees, guests and patients alike are satisfied with dining services.

Tailoring order pickup processes to meet the unique needs of healthcare facilities is easy with Apex. To learn more about the benefits of using smart order pickup solutions in the healthcare space, click here.