Sodexo modernises food services at Ipswich Hospital with new Kitchen Works restaurant
Sodexo is continuing to roll out its global Kitchen Works restaurant brand with the launch of a second outlet at East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, marking another milestone one year on from mobilising the contract.
Sodexo has unveiled the fully refurbished Kitchen Works restaurant at Ipswich Hospital, introducing a modern dining space incorporating new digital ordering services, to provide busy time-pressed frontline staff, visitors and patients with an enhanced, convenience‑led food services experience.
The Kitchen Works restaurant now provides a warm, welcoming, ergonomically-designed dining space featuring different seating options including traditional tables and chairs to soft‑seating areas and relaxation zones.
Sodexo has also introduced a new digital ordering service which speeds up service and provides convenience and flexibility to customers who can order in advance via an app. The restaurant design has been carefully considered to minimise queuing and waiting times.
The restaurant serves freshly cooked hot meals with menus including a wide range of dishes, including vegetarian options, and smaller meal options such as salads and jacket potatoes. In addition to this core offering Sodexo will also be providing cook-to-order specials and regular global street food concepts.
An extensive grab and go range has also been introduced and a full selection of hot and cold drinks is on offer including coffee supplied by Combat2Coffee, an Ipswich-based social enterprise and existing supply partner to Sodexo.
Careful consideration has been made in the redesign of the restaurant to ensure hard-working healthcare teams can take the time to rest and refuel.
The new Kitchen Works restaurant provides a comfortable, relaxing environment and has been designed to give time back to people while delivering high‑quality, affordable food options, enabling us to deliver on our promise of ‘good food made easy’.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust appointed Sodexo Health & Care as its soft facilities management services partner following the decision to move to a single, consistent approach across all its sites with one partner. These services include catering, housekeeping, cleaning, portering and security.
Sodexo has invested £1million in upgrading the catering and dining facilities at both Ipswich Hospital and Colchester Hospital, the Trust’s other acute hospital where a Kitchen Works restaurant opened in September 2025, to improve the workplace experience for frontline clinical teams, patients and visitors.
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