In healthcare, every system contributes to patient outcomes - but not every element gets the attention, investment, or imagination it deserves. Food and nutrition in hospital systems have long been underutilized as drivers of recovery, satisfaction, and operational performance—but that’s beginning to change. 

Banquet Health is excited to announce that we’ve closed $4.5M in seed funding, led by AlleyCorp, with additional investors including Bienville Capital, TMV, Alaris Capital.

A New Class of Tools for a New Era of Care  

When we started Banquet Health, we didn’t aim to improve existing services. Instead, we recognized an opportunity to reimagine hospital food service at the system level—through the perspective of modern technology, human-centered design, and thorough operational insight.  

We listened as food and nutrition teams described creative workarounds, relentless  problem-solving, and a deep desire to do more - with better tools. We engaged with clinical leaders seeking tighter integration between diet orders, allergies, and EMRs. We heard from hospital executives striving for measurable value from every department—including food and nutrition.  

Banquet Health is not just a digital tool—it’s a  reimagined foundation for how food service operates across the enterprise.    

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Defining the Future of Performance in Food and Nutrition  

Today’s hospital leaders are rethinking care delivery and redefining success. They’re connecting the dots between patient experience, clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, and brand trust - and food is no longer viewed as a peripheral function.  

It’s being recognized for what it truly is: a critical touchpoint with meaningful influence over quality, safety, and cost.  

This shift in mindset isn’t just theoretical. It’s driven by data, workforce realities, and patient expectations. Nutrition plays a significant role in healing. Meal delivery impacts how patients perceive the entire care journey.  

Technology now makes it possible to close gaps that once felt impossible.    

Food service is ready for transformation. Not because it's flawed, but because it holds  more potential than we have traditionally recognized. The question is not whether it  should evolve, but how it will.  

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Why (and How) We Built Banquet Health:

Banquet Health is a purpose-built platform aimed at advancing and elevating food service to the same level of discipline and accountability found in pharmacy, imaging, or lab services.  

We see our role as providing the system-level intelligence, intuitive workflows, trusted partnership to help hospital systems serve their patients in more effective and impactful ways to their health.  

This isn’t just about better technology. It’s about leadership, alignment, and unlocking potential where few have looked before.  

And because we built our platform on modern architecture, it remains agile. This results in faster implementations, simpler updates, and the flexibility to evolve with the hospital, not against it.  

We built Banquet to:

• Ensure every patient gets the right meal, every time. Real-time tray tracking and dietary rules keep delivery aligned with clinical needs.  
• Minimize manual errors and rework. Seamless EMR syncing keeps nutrition data accurate and current.  
• Stay agile amid workforce changes. Our platform flexes with your staffing model and care complexity.  
• Turn food service into a performance driver. Operational dashboards align nutrition with hospital-wide strategic goals.  

We’re also rethinking the traditional metrics that have long defined food services such as trays served or cost per meal. There’s opportunity for more meaningful indicators of impact and we’re working with hospitals to ask more ambitious and enhanced questions:

How are nutrition interventions supporting clinical recovery?  

• Where are we introducing unnecessary complexity or risk through manual processes?  
• What patterns emerge across departments when food waste, satisfaction, and delivery timing are viewed together?  
• How can we empower our staff to focus on patient care rather than correcting system errors?  

These are not theoretical questions. They’re the kinds of forward-thinking metrics that turn food service from a cost center into a source of strategic value.    

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Let’s redefine what food service means in healthcare—together. 

We believe the future belongs to hospitals that treat food service as a fully integrated component of care delivery. One where patient dignity is protected through personalized meals, where operational excellence is measured in seconds saved and errors prevented, and where leadership has real-time insight into performance.    

Banquet Health is proud to work alongside hospitals that are ready to set a new standard.  

If you’re ready to explore what food service can become when it’s designed with purpose and backed by modern tools—we’d be honored to share what we’re building. Reach out at sales@banquethealth.com