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Top 15 healthcare food service stories of 2023

The year’s top healthcare stories tracked how dining operations in hospitals and medical centers tackled issues like sustainability and the use of technology.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

December 6, 2023

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Healthcare foodservice in 2023 faced issues ranging from menuing healthier meals for both patients and retail customers, to using technology to expand services—especially to traditionally off hours—and make more efficient use of increasingly expensive and scarce labor.

These challenges seemed to have brought about a burst of creativity and innovation in the healthcare dining market symbolized by a healthcare operator winning the Best of Show award in the 2023 FM Best Concept Awards competition. But Lancaster General Hospital’s Central Table Eatery, which was that Best of Show winner, was hardly the only operation in the healthcare dining community to step up with forward thinking, and here are 15 examples...

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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