[Delicious food] Solving nursing home management issues with freezing and cooling technology

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In recent years, the number of people running nursing homes has increased significantly, but there may be some who are worried about not being able to increase occupancy rates or being unable to run their homes successfully due to high costs.

In this article, we will tell you how to support the good management of nursing homes and nursing care facilities by providing delicious meals while reducing labor costs.

Facilities that serve delicious meals will receive support from residents, which will lead to a good reputation.

Please read it!

Nursing home issues

Regarding management of nursing homes

In Japan, due to the recent boom in nursing home management, a large number of nursing homes have been established.
The number of large companies entering the market is also increasing.

As a result, the market has become competitive, and we have entered an era in which nursing home management must aim to improve both the hard aspects (facilities, location, etc.) and the intangible aspects (staff, meals, services, etc.).

In fact, although the company set out to manage a nursing home and built a facility, it faced challenges, such as a lack of nursing staff to provide care and the inability to provide satisfactory services for meals and events. There are also many homes.

As a result, the number of nursing homes and nursing care facilities that are going bankrupt is increasing, and it can be said that it is becoming difficult to manage them.

In 2015, 76 nursing homes and nursing care facilities went bankrupt, the highest number ever.

In order to improve management and prevent bankruptcy, it is necessary to increase income by increasing occupancy rates while keeping management costs such as personnel costs and facility maintenance costs low.

The importance of “meals” in nursing homes

Meals are extremely important in nursing homes.

The residents look forward to the meals very much.
This is because there are three meals a day and you have the opportunity to communicate with other residents during those meals.

Above all, there are few people who don't love good food.
Residents will be more satisfied if they can eat delicious meals while having fun and talking.

If the residents are satisfied, the reputation of the facility will be good and the number of applicants will increase.

dietary challenges

However, providing delicious food is very difficult and not a simple task.

In nursing homes, the health conditions of residents vary greatly from one person to the next, and the optimal diet for each person also differs.
In other words, it is not advisable to provide meals together, as is the case at school.

It takes a lot of effort to provide meals that all residents will enjoy. You must pay careful attention to the details when cooking, such as soft or bland meals.

Cooking like this costs a lot of money.
Labor costs for cooking staff and time costs will also increase due to the diversification of the cooking process.

Due to these factors, many nursing homes currently have difficulty preparing delicious meals.

This leads to not receiving very good reviews from tenants, and also increases costs and puts pressure on management.

At a nursing home, food plays an important role in whether the business is good or bad.

What is the latest technology recommended for nursing homes?

cook chill

Introducing Cook Chill, a system that helps people with meals in nursing homes.

By using the latest rapid cooling technology, such as blast chillers and tumble chillers, the shelf life can be significantly extended from about 5 days to several 10 days after cooking.

This technology allows food to be prepared in advance and stored, and then simply reheated just before serving.
This system is called Cook-Chill.

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(See #2. Cook-chill system for safe and delicious food)

In recent years, Cook Chill has been widely introduced in facilities such as nursing homes, nursing care facilities, and hospitals that must provide large amounts of food at once.

Additionally, some cookchill vendors sell pre-cooked foods, so if you are looking to reduce the number of staff involved in cooking, why not try using Cook Chill?

rapid freezer

The next thing I'd like to introduce is rapid freezer.

This is also the latest technology, and in recent years, it is a machine that has been increasingly introduced by farmers, restaurants, fishermen's cooperatives, etc.

The strength of rapid freezing is that it can be frozen without compromising quality.

By combining powerful power and delicate technology, it is possible to freeze to below -30 degrees in a short time, thereby achieving a much higher quality of freezing compared to regular commercial freezers.

This is because normal commercial freezers damage food cells during the freezing process, but rapid freezer can freeze food without damaging the cells.

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In addition to freezing fresh ingredients, we can maintain the quality of all kinds of processed foods, such as fried, boiled, and stir-fried foods, to the extent that even after thawing after freezing, the quality is almost as good as freshly prepared foods.

Also, of course, even when eating soft meals such as nursing care meals, the texture and taste of the food is almost never lost.

In addition to being able to freeze delicious food while maintaining its quality,

Can have a longer shelf life than regular freezing
Freezing time can be significantly reduced
Can reduce waste

There are also characteristics such as:

Benefits of the latest technology for nursing homes

We will explain the benefits of introducing the latest technologies mentioned above.

Gaining popularity due to delicious food

First of all, the first benefit is that we can provide delicious meals.

Instead of making it in a hurry when you don't have much time and ending up with a sloppy meal, you can take advantage of the strength of both the cook-chill system and rapid freezer, which is the ability to preserve food, and cook slowly and carefully when you're not busy. .

That way, you can feed them delicious home-cooked meals prepared by our cooking staff.

In addition, with rapid freezer, you can provide meals that are almost as delicious as freshly prepared foods, even if they are fried.

Not only will the food be delicious, but it will also lead to good reviews from the residents, which is sure to increase the popularity of the nursing home.

Also, being able to promote safety by complying with HACCP will lead to a good reputation.

What is HACCP?
It is necessary to eliminate or reduce all the dangers that exist in food, but there is a way to ensure safety by constantly controlling this work.

Reduce costs such as personnel expenses

It also reduces labor and time costs.

Up until now, many cooking staff had to concentrate on cooking during lunch hours, etc., but by introducing this technology, the work can be done evenly, such as cooking during free time. It is possible to

Therefore, it can be said that cooking can be done efficiently without using a large number of people, thereby reducing labor and time costs.

Conclusion

As I have written so far, by introducing the latest technology of cook chill and rapid freezer

Increase popularity
Reduce costs

It is possible to improve management from two aspects.

You can also consult with us regarding rapid freezer, so please feel free to contact us.

We have introduced two systems, but which one is more suitable depends on the current situation of the facility, so we recommend that you carefully consider the installation.