apetito is a global organisation with 50 years experience in providing frozen food and catering solutions to Care Homes, Local Authorities and Hospitals. We also provide a frozen meal delivery service to the public via our franchise Wiltshire Farm Foods and a community meals delivery service through Local Authorities via apetito Services.

CarteChoix - Key Benefits

Key Benefits

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CarteChoix, our new plated meals range, offers an ideal on-demand, out-of-hours mealtime solution.

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With the apetito plated meal system a ward of 28 patients can be fed in just 35 minutes.

 Rosemarie Hoyle Divisional Manager, Healthcare

CarteChoix, our new plated meals system, provides a wealth of benefits from reducing waste and cost to providing the much needed flexibility on awards with a high turn-over such as admissions and maternity.

Reduce waste, reduce costs

In these times of austerity and comprehensive spending reviews, reducing wastage and running a cost-efficient inpatient food service is more important than ever before. That’s why we’ve developed a new range of plated meals to complement our multi-portion bulk system. The service enables you to quickly regenerate meals, allowing your patients to order closer to mealtimes. The result? Delicious dishes that your patients will enjoy, and a leaner, more cost effective service for you.

Lamb HotpotReady when your patients are

Our individual complete meals can also provide an ideal, on-demand, out-of-hours mealtime solution, so patients can order what they feel like, when they feel hungry. What’s more, our dishes take only 5-6 minutes to cook, and as they’re heated at ward level, you’ll be able to serve piping hot, appetising meals, every time.

Our upside-down cooking method and compartmentalised PET trays help to make sure every meal is well presented every time. All you need to do is flip over the plate, lift up the tray, and you’ll have a perfectly positioned meal that’s ready to be served.  Find out more with our step-by-step guide.

Cheese and tomato omletteWarm china plates for a restaurant-style experience

The great benefit of our new service is that it enables patients to enjoy tasty, nutritious meals on china plates, just as they would at home or in a restaurant. Unlike our competitors, we’ve sourced plates that are specifically designed to conduct and distribute heat evenly for optimum cooking results and maximum enjoyment.

It’s not just the china plate that creates a restaurant-style experience. Every meal in our new range has been created by award-winning Head Chef, Phil Rimmer, so your patients can expect delicious flavours and high quality nutritious food whatever, and whenever, they order. 

MeatballsTempting dishes to help aid recovery

Food plays a key role in aiding patient recovery, which means it’s vital patients receive nutritious meals that they’ll want to eat. This can be difficult when food has to be ordered hours in advance; if first choices aren’t available and instances where patients undergoing treatment don’t know how they’ll feel when mealtime arrives. The new plated meal system from apetito offers the perfect solution to this problem. Our dishes are specially designed to give you excellent results, in a minimum amount of time, so you can serve enticing meals that you know your patients will enjoy.

A plateful of flavour

The use of our china plate and specially designed meal tray not only ensures excellent presentation, the well presented food encourages patients to eat. The cooking method gently steams the vegetables retaining great colours and an al dente texture.