In industrial environment such as hospital and prisons, prisoners and patients need to be provided with nutritional meals. Prisoners need to be provided with five main options and sides and sweet options. Patients also need to be offered nutritional meal options.
Prior to presenting menu options to prisoners and patients, Athena our catering solution provides dietitians and catering staff with the ability to build model recipes and menus. Model recipes are defined in terms of their caloric, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, allergens, consumer acceptance, etc. There are some forty elements that need to be considered in the analysis, including special menus to meet dietary conditions, vegetarians, vegans, allergen free, etc.
Athena uniquely provides the facility to measure recipes and menus at the planning, preparation and serving stages.
The issue that Athena addresses is that as ingredient suppliers and ingredients change, cooking methods change in recipes, athena provides an accurate measure as to how production recipes and menus meet model recipes. Hence alerting staff if the recipe and menus do not meet standards.
Athena can also determine at production level which recipe from a range of recipes meets the model recipes.
Menus are presented to patients and prisoners with complete nutritional and allergen details so informed decisions can be met.
Meals in prisons are normally selected by prisoners two weeks in advance providing time for ordering and preparation. In a hospital same day selection, preparation and service occurs.
Athena uniquely provides several options for obtaining meal selections from prisoners and patients: paper and scan menus, tablet computers, smart phones (Bring Your Own Device), computers on wards.
Once the menu numbers have been collated: meals are prepared, purchasing takes place, inventory pick and pack lists prepared, meal severed, receipting good in, etc.
Athena provides a consolidated system that meets the needs of the whole catering process. From inventory control, recipe maintenance, menu planning, meals selection, meal preparation, serving meals, health and safety, cost control and purchasing. Athena provides a ful range of management reports and financial operational reports to monitor the catering operation.
The real beauty of the system is that it can be implemented in Schools, Colleges, Hospitals, Care Homes, Prisons, etc. it is a system which is highly functional, but can be adapted to any environment. The system architecture has been designed to meet individual client’s needs.
The solution provided by Athena can also be extended to schools and colleges, home cares and chains of restaurants. Visit our lending application here:
