The Plated Difference
Smaller Footprint
Our system doesn’t require a fancy commercial kitchen. You can operate a full food service program from the size of a unit pantry.
Scalable Delivery
Manage multiple food service operations of any size with the peace of mind that each program delivers the same quality and safety.
Less Labor
We designed the system to operate with as few people as possible so your team can spend more time caring and less time on food prep.
Predictable Budget
Our system ensures cost transparency and predictability - say goodbye to food waste, mystery ordering, costly equipment maintenance, and food service staff overtime.
How We Do It
We’re the first to bring a comprehensive self-operated food service solution to the healthcare market. Our program is designed to support your community with built-in business logic, performance reporting, and compliance tracking. We call it an end-to-end solution because we’re the only program you’ll need to run a compliant, cost-controlled, quality food service operation.
Our end-to-end solution is made possible with three key components:
Prepared Foods
Just like a meal delivery service our meals are prepared off-site and delivered to you ready to heat and serve.
We offer meals aligned with the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (AND) Nutrition Care Manual and the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI).
Our meals are plated on proprietary plates designed to look and feel like a normal dinner plate.
Smart Heating System
Meals are brought to, and kept at, the perfect temperature until serving time through our unique heating system.
Our Heat & Hold device plugs into a standard wall outlet and uses less energy than a microwave to heat the same amount of meals.
Staff simply scan a sealed meal, load it as directed, and the system does the rest. And because meals are heated sealed, there’s no odor or mess.
Operations Software
Our software is built different so it delivers something that nothing else can. We took the time to build business logic into our core program which means you never have to wonder or worry that your managers and staff know how to run a safe and efficient food service program. We think of it like bowling with bumpers.
Our software enables automation and transparency to key areas, such as compliance, finance, and inventory.
Who We Serve
Seeing is believing - Our headquarters is located outside of Baltimore, MD and we’re always happy to provide a demo of our program if you’re thinking about bringing simplicity, efficiency, and quality to your operation.
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Residential communities of any size who want to find a better way to run their dining program without compromising CMS compliance and resident satisfaction.
Our program is one of the first to be able to support home-based assisted and memory care programs, meaning even programs as small as 6 can use our service and reap the benefits.
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We help bring efficient and quality nutrition programs to crisis, acute, and residential programs of any size.
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We’re an alternative to traditional catering programs for child care, senior care, and disability support programs.
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Acute healthcare locations of any size and location can improve patient dining with Culinex.
Built by Pros
We’re foodservice and nutrition professionals obsessed with diner and team member experience. Our founders are healthcare food service operators. We’ve seen what happens when food service departments don’t have what they need - the staff, the caregivers, and the patients and residents all suffer. After years in contract food service management, we set out to understand why there wasn’t a suitable and attainable solution for self-operated food service programs. We saw a need for a new solution, so we built it.
Our vision is to be the leading provider of institutional food service solutions, empowering healthcare facilities to deliver high-quality meals to patients and residents in new ways.
Our mission is to simplify food service operations, control costs, and improve the overall experience for both diners and employees. Our goal is to transform the way institutional food service is managed, setting new standards for efficiency and quality in the industry.
Join the Revolution.
Join us in our mission to change healthcare food service. Whether you’re interested in using Plated as your dining program, joining our team, or supporting us through investment opportunities, we’re interested in hearing from you.