About Steamplicity
Freshly cooked, ready in minutes
We provide patients with a first-class food experience, helping them enjoy their meals while supporting their unique needs.
How can Steamplicity support?
Steamplicity provides a diverse menu of chilled meals, crafted by chefs and dietitians, available to patients 24/7. Our chilled meals are cooked just before they're eaten, putting freshly cooked vegetables back on the hospital menu.
With over 14 million meals served annually, our Cuisine Centre operates to world-class food safety standards, accredited by the British Retail Consortium.
Nutrition
Steamplicity’s steam-cooking process preserves more nutrients than conventional hospital catering, keeping food healthier and tastier. Using natural moisture from the ingredients, our unique steam-release valve cooks meals to perfection within minutes.
Variety
Our menus are updated every 6 months to keep things fresh and exciting. Each week, we include a mix of fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, and different types of meat and fish to offer variety and balance.
Featured:
Steamplicity Roast Pork Dinner
Succulent slices of roast pork served with golden roast potatoes, braised red cabbage and garden peas. New for Spring/Summer 2025.
Quality
All our meals undergo rigorous testing for flavour, texture, and appearance, ensuring they're not only tasty but also meet all the necessary nutritional guidelines.
Flexibility
With a flexible à la carte menu, meals can be ordered just two hours before service. From smaller portions and soups to finger foods and dishes thoughtfully crafted, there’s something to suit everyone.
The menus also cater to diverse needs, offering options for diabetes, high energy, softer diets, vegetarian, vegan, healthy choices, and ethnic cuisines.
Efficiency
By introducing Steamplicity, you can make savings on labour,
waste and energy consumption.
- Food waste reduction: Steamplicity’s model and extended meal life cut food waste to under 2.5%.
- Electronic ordering: Choose meals just two hours before service via tablets, complete with nutrition information.
- Energy saving: Steamplicity uses 36% less energy than traditional catering methods.
- Space saving: With fresh meals delivered every other day, ward kitchens can replace full kitchens.
A taster of our work
We’re incredibly proud of the results we’ve achieved for our clients over the years. The case studies below outline how we have helped fuel a healthy diet in some of the UK’s most esteemed healthcare institutions across the UK.
Meet our Healthcare Dietitian
Maxine Cartz
Maxine Cartz is a registered dietitian with over 25 years of experience in food service dietetics. She manages the nutritional aspects of acute patient menus, working across dietitians, nursing teams, and caterers. Maxine collaborates with the NPD team and supports operations. A member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA), she led the creation of the BDA Nutrition and Hydration Digest, and is now a key guide in patient catering. Maxine received a BDA Fellowship in 2021 for her outstanding work.
Outside of work, she enjoys baking, breadmaking, and Italian cuisine.
Social value & sustainability
Meals for a brighter tomorrow
As part of Compass Group’s journey to Net Zero by 2030, our meal ranges reflect our shared commitment to a greener future.
By working together for meaningful change, we’re making sustainability a priority at every step. From responsibly sourced ingredients to recyclable CPET packaging, we’re fully committed to reducing our carbon footprint.
Have we piqued your appetite?
We’d love to discuss how our catering solutions can help you save time, labour and minimise waste.