Sodexo at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford blog: Celebrating Healthcare Food Services Week at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (Oct 9-Oct 13)

The Food Services team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital celebrates Healthcare Food Services Week this week from Oct 9- Oct 13. This is the week we honor our food services colleagues who serve an integral role in providing nutritious meals to our colleagues, patients and visitors.

Our main servery, Courtyard cafe opens at 7am-7pm and Java Junction cafe opens till 330am. Our first shift starts at 430am and our overnight shift ends at 400am. Our food services team are our unsung hero that works tiresly to support the hospital mission to be one of the healthiest children’s hospitals in the country. The team are also very humble. Whenever anyone gave them a compliment, they always said " I am just doing my job". This can be summarize by a quote Jay Cabus, retail operations manager provided :

"When I think about what doctors, nurses, and support staff go through, my problems are easy. It is my privilege to support and nourish them, so they can continue healing our patients. When you think about what these families are going through, we should give them options. It is our obligation to educate and provide our customers with healthy options, but most importantly, to give them the best possible service and care."

In addition to serving our patients, colleagues and customers, the team is also preparing for the opening of the hospital expansion, Packard 2.0 on December 9 which will provide a total of 361 licensed beds. The site will have several new food services facilities. http://expansionjobs.stanfordchildrens.org/pages/food-services.

Under the leadership of Dwain Richardson, Director of Food Services, the team had been working tiresly in facilities and menu planning, hiring and training for the new expansion.

Dwain and the management team planned this year event with an array of food and gifts to thank our food services colleagues for their dedication and commitment. Here is what the team has planned:

Monday – Homemade fresh fruit danishes and pastries made in house by Chef Muhammad Siddiqui, Sodexo resource chef
Tuesday – Steak and Tandoori Chicken Lunch prepared by Chef Muhammad Siddiqui

Wednesday – Homemade fresh Bread pudding and desserts prepared by Chef Muhammad Siddiqui

Thursday – Ice Cream Social

Friday – Gifts

Please join me in wishing all our Food Service worker a Happy Health Care Food Services week.

Thank you for all that you do! Thank you for making everyday a better day for all those we served!