Hospital food service: is a chilled meal system best?
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, introduced the first chilled meal system into a major Australian hospital twenty years ago. Recently the food service has been converted back to a centralised system with conventional food production. The change has resulted in reduced operating costs and better quality food. This suggests that a chilled food system is not always the most economical form of hospital food service.
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