The global services company has unveiled the fully refurbished 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 restaurant design has been considered to minimise queuing and waiting times with customers able to order by app. 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.
A 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.
Rob Jepson, chief executive of health & care at Sodexo UK & Ireland, said: "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’.”
Sodexo has invested £1m 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.