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Grove Menus is a well-known menu service for senior living kitchens. If you are comparing options, here is a plain description of what MealCare Dietary Services does, who it is built for and what it costs — so you can judge the fit yourself rather than take our word for it.

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Who MealCare is built for

MealCare Dietary Services is made for the food service company that runs dietary programs inside several nursing homes at once — not for a single kitchen. Your office works from a company account covering every facility; each facility manager signs in and sees only their own site's menus, staff, counts, notes and compliance records.

What MealCare includes

Multi-facility menu approvals
Each facility manager builds their own weekly menu as a draft. Your central office reviews every submission in one Approvals queue and approves it or sends it back with a note. Nothing goes to the kitchen unapproved.
Kitchen staff scheduling
Shift-by-shift schedules per facility, with each worker's position and hourly rate stored against the facility they work in.
Daily meal counts
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack counts recorded per day, per facility, so served volume is a number you can report on instead of an estimate.
Cost analysis across the company
Scheduled labour hours and meal counts roll up against each facility's monthly dietary budget, giving cost per meal and cost per resident across every site you run.
Compliance records
Temperature logs, sanitation checklists and staff compliance records kept with the facility they belong to, ready for a survey.
Facility notes
A dated log of resident diet changes, incidents and follow-ups, visible to the office and to that facility's managers only.

What it costs

Pricing is per facility, per month, in US dollars, and the rate falls as your facility count grows. There is no separate per-user charge — facility manager logins are unlimited within a facility.

  • Starter — $50 per facility per month for 1–24 facilities.
  • Growth — $40 per facility per month for 25–50 facilities.
  • Enterprise — $35 per facility per month for 51–100 facilities.

Subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled, seats can be added or removed at any time, and payments are handled by Paddle.com Market Ltd. as merchant of record. Full details are on the pricing page.

Where MealCare may not fit

MealCare gives your team the tools to build and approve menus; it does not supply pre-written dietitian-authored menu cycles, printed tray cards or recipe cards. If what you need is ready-made menu content for one kitchen, a menu service is the better buy. If you need oversight, costing and compliance across many facilities, that is what MealCare is for.

Comparing something specific? Send us the question and we will answer it straight. Also worth reading: how MealCare handles resident diet orders and allergies.

Grove Menus is a trademark of its respective owner. InTechFoundry is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Grove Menus. This page describes MealCare Dietary Services only; please check the other provider's own website for their current features and pricing.