We build software for the people who feed hospitals

Food service is clinical care, and it runs on tools that were never built for it. We started Banquet in 2022 to give food and nutrition teams the software they deserve, because every meal is part of how a patient gets better.

2022Founded
500+ hoursOn the floor with food service teams before we wrote the first line
Hospitals to long-term careHealth systems, community hospitals, behavioral health and long-term care
Backed byAlleyCorp, TMV, Bienville Capital and Alaris Capital

Team

Registered dietitians who know the diet office, and engineers who've built health software, enterprise systems and production machine learning.

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Charlton Field

Charlton Field

Co-Founder & CEO

Charlton brings people together around Banquet's mission. He builds relationships across healthcare, develops partnerships that expand what Banquet can do, and creates opportunities for the company to grow. He believes food can be a much more meaningful part of the patient experience. Outside Banquet, he's working on training his four-year-old sausage dog, with mixed results.

Nivi Jayasekar

Nivi Jayasekar

Co-Founder & CTO

Nivi studied computer science and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon and has been building and designing software since 2012, at Facebook, LinkedIn, Blend, Brex, and Turvo before Banquet. At Banquet she works across customers, product, and engineering, often starting inside hospitals with the people doing the work, and turns what she learns into AI that helps teams make better decisions without losing the human judgment behind them. She sees every meal as a chance to shift a patient's health trajectory and has been food-hacking her own for years.

How we work

Value with every touch

We win by creating meaningful value and care in every interaction.

Raise the bar

We take ownership and speak up for quality, no matter whose work it is.

Work in progress

We stay humble, keep learning, and have the hard conversations that help us grow.