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Epicure making digital menu boards healthy in health care

June 29, 2012

Epicure Digital Systems, a provider of digital menu boards, earlier this month showed its Epicure Digital NutriLive nutritional menu labeling system for digital menu boards at The Association for Healthcare Foodservice annual conference in Miami.

"There is a powerful trend in hospital food services to develop nutritious and healthy food choices," said Harvey Friedman, president and founder of Epicure Digital Systems, in a company announcement. "Now the challenge is to educate customers to make healthy choices. By creatively combining our easy-to-use Epicure Digital NutriLive nutritional menu labeling system with motion graphics and food photography, Epicure Digital produces visually compelling multimedia menus that help customers make informed choices."

At the AHF Conference, Epicure Digital presented the Epicure Digital NutriLive nutritional menu labeling system that allows food services to control and present nutritional values, information for customers with special food and nutrition needs and creative ways to highlight special food items. These nutritional labels can display as nutritional data, nutritional scoring and icons representing food groups, healthy choices, allergens, vegan, vegetarian, local and organic, and others.

The Wildflower Cafe in the new 866,000-square-foot Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in Elmhurst,Ill., offers healthier food choices and is the latest addition to a growing list of hospital cafeterias that serving up tasty, nutritious meals. When the Hospital decided to implement the Epicure Digital Menu Board System, "the plan was to offer more selections of food, healthier and more cooked-to order food", said Dave Reeves, director of hospitality services at the hospital. "Each food station features a wide-screen LCD Epicure digital menu board displaying its menu with nutritional data for calories, protein, carbs, sodium, fat, saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol. We wanted to display the nutritional content of our menu items so our customers would make the best menu selections for their individual needs."

Epicure Digital Systems said it custom designs highly graphical digital menu board systems to solve each of its food service client's complex menu issues.

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