Startup Idea: Meal Preference Management Software for Care Facilities

Startup idea to develop a comprehensive software that collects and organizes meal preferences for people in care facilities or in-home care situations. The software would include preferences like allergies, favorite foods, disliked foods, religious restrictions, and preparation methods, providing staff with information to serve meals that cater to individual preference. This could be used by any care agency, family, or community-based program.

I work at an agency that provides staffing when facilities need extra help and can't cover.

I have worked at many different care facilities and in-home. I have yet to see, at any of them, a comprehensive program or plan for providing meals that people actually enjoy eating.

In a long-term facility software for people to submit food preferences would be very helpful in serving meals and in-home and community would help significantly with doing grocery shopping and meal preparation, which is actually huge.

It is essential to quality of life, and there is nothing out there to make this process efficient and ensure people get what they like and need.

It should include allergies, favorite foods and beverages, preferred meals, favorite snacks, dislikes, food excluded for religious reasons, foods that are hated and they will not eat, methods of preparation, and any other category that would assist in giving people what they want so they can enjoy eating again.

It is amazing how many people that can no longer be completely independent lose the ability to have foods and meals they enjoy because there is no system like this.

It isn't because workers and providers don't want to provide what people enjoy, we absolutely do. There is just no easy way to get the information on a large scale.

I think software that could be used by any agency, facility, family, or even a community based program with volunteers that does grocery shopping and provides meals, would be incredibly useful.

It would ensure that people can have what they prefer instead of having to make general, and often very bland, choices because we don't have any way of finding out individual preference.

Users of the service and family that care for them would pay for this. The ability to have food and drink to enjoy is so basic that it isn't often thought of, but it can cause depression and many other issues when that basic need is not met.