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Top 10 healthcare dining stories of 2022

The year’s top healthcare dining stories include profiles of some innovative operators, some great healthcare recipes and a report on the growing food-as-medicine trend.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

December 7, 2022

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Over the past year, healthcare institutions have been adapting to the emerging post-pandemic environment while embracing the growing awareness of the link between diet and health. Meanwhile, major healthcare dining programs are looking at ways technology can provide efficiencies and extend service to previously un- or underserved areas and populations while covering labor shortage issues. FM has been following these developments and others over the course of 2022 with numerous stories of individual initiatives.

Here are 10 stories from the past year focusing on the healthcare dining market.

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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