Hospital chefs cooked up a menu including stir-fried noodles, burgers and chicken wings with BBQ sauce. Hospital staff tried out the new style catering operation headlined by the value offer of a portion of stir-fried noodles at just 95p.
Stuart Hugill, key account manager at ISS Facility Services UK, said: "This is the first time we have ever catered outside the building, and just look at the queue of people; it's fantastic. The restaurants inside the hospital are so popular they get crammed and this gives people a chance to enjoy their food outside in the fresh air."
The Rieber Varithek ACS (air clean system) front cooking station is mobile and small enough to easily fit through standard doorways. It works with cooking modules, including induction woks and hobs, ceran hobs, single and double griddles, pasta cookers and fryers. Varithek ACS, combined with optional self-ventilation and fire suppression, means it can operate anywhere there is a power source, inside or out.
Martin McKeown, Homerton Hospital’s catering operations manager for ISS Facility Services UK, added: “It’s only the first day, but you can see that catering outside has made a massive difference. It gets people away from their desks, gives them different food and a different concept, promotes interaction and gets them talking together."