James Martin Operation Hospital Food, Birmingham

woofgang | 13:13 Mon 25th Feb 2013 | ChatterBank

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Just watched the first episode of the second series. The kitchen has no standard recipes, nothing has been costed or dietician checked, they regularly waste a third of what they cook and no one has done anything about it.....

I used to manage a rehab department in the NHS. We knew where every penny had gone (better than our finance department did), how much resource we has spent on each patient and what the outcomes were, and so far as was possible what treatments worked and what didn't.

I seriously cannot believe that whoever has management responsibility for the hotel services has allowed this to happen.

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Smowball

I saw him being interviewed the other day about the series and he said that the hospitals were actually saving money. I just couldnt see how the kitchen staff were going to have time to prep all the new veg etc in time given the huge quantities.

woofgang

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If you only make what is needed it saves a ton of time. Did you see the Scarborough one in 2011?

Sqad

woofy........yes I saw the Scarborough one, as i worked there for a time and had a vestige interest.

My contacts tell me that it has gone back to it's original disaster pre James Martin.

woofgang

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that's a shame, Pat was on this morning's episode and said that they were doing well.

Sqad

woofy.......i apologise in that i have mislead you.........following your post above i have re-checked with the adorable Mrs sqad who is "in the know" and assured me that Scarborough is one of the best hospitals in the country for food.

TheOtherHalf

Scarborough Hospital is doing really well, as is Bridlington now we are on the James Martin Menus. The only problem we have found is that staff especially are getting bored with the menu because we now have a one week rota, whereas it used to be three so a lot of the old favourites have disappeared. There is now much less waste though. I personally like the new menues as there is a lot of nice veggie meals and the home made soups always go down well with everyone

Sqad

theOtherhalf......sorry we crossed posted.
Do you work there?

TheOtherHalf

Both Brid and Scarb are the best for food and we still make all our own sandwiches everyday and fresh cakes, which Scarborough doesnt do. So we are one up on them :>)

shaneystar2

I watched it this morning and also the last series .
Shameful ,the amount of food that was thrown away .
I think that guy was making custard for the world and his wife .
This is only a small hospital compared to the one in the previous series ,so if a small unit can't get it right God knows how much food is being wasted on a national level .

TheOtherHalf

I have worked at Bridlington Hospital catering for 12 years now Sqad and love my job, especially when we get complimented on our food. Even my OH comes up for his meals when Im working weekends or evening shift and he loves the food here

Sqad

theOtherhalf....I was appointed Consultant at Scarborough,Whitby and the new hospital at Bridlington, but the latter was never built in my time, so i improved my snooker at the Yacht Club in Bridlington.......fond memories.

TheOtherHalf

Yes Sqad, Brid has its good points

woofgang

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The finance lady annoyed me. She knew what the money hole was, knew she had no costed recipes but hadn't done anything about it. Also the head chef. You don't need management support to get your staff to write down recipes and follow them. If you are disposing of that much waste every day, you stomp off and find someone and show them. The dieticians department have a responsibility to chase catering departments for their recipes and ingredients. Its all very well to say Oh morale but nothing gets done if you don't get off you arris and do something.

TheOtherHalf

Ive not seen the new series as at work for 10am. Which Bham hospital is it at. Im originally from Bham and would be interested in seeing it. I know when we visited my mum in Heartlands, we went to the restaurant there and it wasnt very nice and very expensive !

woofgang

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Birmingham Royal Orthopaedic.