Food Service Systems

COOK - FRESH

The Royal Adelaide Hospital inpatient food service is based on a cook fresh system The inpatient food and beverage service is based on a "fresh-cook" system with a "cook-freeze" system to provide selected menu items for 3 other sites.

Meals for the RAH are plated hot in a central kitchen and delivered to the patient bedside by food service staff.

COOK - FREEZE

Selected menu items including main meals, desserts and a limited range of vegetables and modified consistency items are prepared in bulk, packed into foil containers of between 1 and 12 serves, frozen and boxed for delivery to Hillcrest Hospital (130 bed services to the elderly and forensic medicine) and Hampstead Rehabilitation Center (149 bed spinal injury, orthopaedic and geriatric).

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