Kitchens for Care Homes
Commercial Kitchens for Care Homes: Supporting Well-Being Through Design
In recent years, kitchen environments and food quality have become increasingly important in the care home sector. A state of the art nursing home commercial kitchen is now an asset to attracting residents and meeting quality of life expectations.
Indigo design and install commercial kitchens for care homes that improve efficiency, meet current regulations for health and safety and impress residents who expect a varied and healthy menu from on-site chefs.
If you are a care home provider contact us to discuss your requirements. Indigo can help with family-run, independent or council owned and larger corporations in London, Reading, Brighton and across the South East.
Nursing Home Commercial Kitchen Design Solutions
Key features of kitchens for care homes:
- Cater for 24/7 food service
- Efficient and easy to use catering equipment
- Innovative workflow design
- Energy efficient fittings to lower running costs
- Efficient extraction systems and kitchen ventilation equipment
- Health and safety compliant
- High-Quality Nursing Home Catering Equipment
Our expert team have over 30 years of experience in commercial kitchens for care homes and completes high-quality projects with minimum disruption to residents and staff.
What Makes a Great Nursing Home Commercial Kitchen?
Families choosing a care home want to know their loved ones will be happy and healthy, and a big part of that is the kitchen. A key factor in choosing a care home for the elderly, family and friends will look to the reliability and specifications of a kitchen against competitors in your area, particularly for residents with allergies.
A well-planned kitchen for care is designed to:
Meet Dietary Needs and Restrictions: Care homes cater to residents with diverse dietary requirements, including those with dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), diabetes, allergies, and other medical conditions. A good commercial kitchen must be equipped to handle these variations, requiring dedicated preparation areas and storage.
Ensure Hygiene and Food Safety: including easy-to-clean surfaces and catering equipment, effective waste disposal systems, proper handwashing facilities and much more. It is very important to adhere to all food safety regulations to ensure that all meals are safe.
Provide Excellent Home Catering Equipment and Efficiency: A well-designed commercial kitchen for care homes incorporates high-quality, efficient and long-lasting catering equipment, essential for preparing large volumes of meals.
Ensure Great Accessibility and Ergonomics: The kitchen layout should be designed to transport and serve food to residents’ rooms or dining areas with ease while reducing strain and preventing injuries to your care home staff.
Optimise Food Service for Resident Needs: Our expert team also takes into account the number of residents, the best flow of foodservice and peak time requirements to enable staff to provide the best service possible at all times.
Health and Safety in Kitchens for Care Homes
Hygiene and cleanliness standards need to be a core focus for commercial kitchens in care homes as residents are likely to be vulnerable to health risks and may have pre-existing conditions, or simply need extra support (dietary or otherwise).
Our care home kitchens are designed to meet all health and safety standards and ensure cleaning can be completed thoroughly and in good time to guarantee good sanitation. A part of this is incorporating durable stainless steel equipment into the design and equipment to meet market guidelines for serving temperature and storage.
Speak to our team
For more information on our services and how you can improve your care home kitchen, from a full turnkey solution to updating specific equipment as part of a refit, call us to book in an initial consultation with no obligation.
White City – London
To supply and install commercial kitchen equipment as well as a new ventilation system.
Indigo were pleased to work on this exciting new project for a large assisted living facility in the centre of London. We provided a variety of equipment to hopefully ensure the staff are easily able to meet the quality of expectation that is demonstrated throughout the rest of the build. As well as a fully functioning commercial kitchen, we were also pleased to help by supplying and installing new laundry equipment.
- Installation of catering equipment
- Installation of new ventilation system
- Installation of new laundry equipment
- CAD design
- Project management
