NACA alignedHosted in Australia

Replace the paper meal matrix with software built for aged-care kitchens

Name: Mealward
Availability: PreOrder

Fewer ordering errors, faster service, dietary safety at every step — and 30 minutes of staff time back at every mealtime.

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Prefer an app icon? Mealward installs on phones, tablets, and PCs.

PCA taking lunch orders on a phone — resident list with dietary tags

Live screen · real data

The problem with paper

Every residential aged-care kitchen knows these pains.

Matrices get lost, mis-read, or arrive too late

Paper dockets travel between residents and the kitchen twice a day. One misplaced sheet means the kitchen cooks blind.

Dietary needs slip through the cracks

Minced & moist, thickened fluids, religious diets — a handwritten tick on a grid is an incident waiting to happen.

Manual meal counts waste 30 minutes per service

Someone still has to tally totals before every breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's a nursing aide doing data entry at 7 AM.

How Mealward works

Four steps from bedside order to served plate.

PCA or GSO takes orders at the bedside

Staff tap through residents on any iPad, phone, or PC. Dietary tags surface automatically — no separate lookup needed.

Kitchen sees live aggregate counts

As orders come in, kitchen staff see real-time totals and per-item ticks. No manual tallying, no last-minute phone calls.

Kitchenette plates by combo

Chicken parm + apple crumble × 3. The screen groups identical combos so plating is fast, consistent, and accurate.

PCA or GSO delivers room-by-room, marks served

A room-by-room delivery sheet guides each run. Tap to confirm each resident received their meal — instant audit trail.

See it in action

Real screens from a real facility

These are screenshots from the live demo. Same software, same UI - click through it yourself at demo.mealward.com.au.

Mealward dashboard showing daily order status and meal services for a facility — **Manager dashboard.** Today's order status at a glance, plus active meal services.

Mealward residents list grouped by wing with room numbers and quick search — **Residents list.** Grouped by wing, searchable by name or room, one tap to drill in.

Mealward order-taking screen with residents grouped by wing, texture tags, and meal-option buttons — **Order at the bedside.** Resident name, room, texture tag (Soft, Minced & Moist), today's options. One tap to confirm.

Mealward Reports and Analytics with tabs for popularity, history, delivery, intake, conflicts and activity — **Reports.** Popularity, history, intake, delivery, conflicts, activity — seven tabs of analytics.

Works on every device

Same software, every screen on the floor

No app to install. Mealward runs in any modern browser — manager dashboard on the office PC, kitchen view on the iPad, bedside ordering on the phone in your pocket.

Mealward dashboard on a laptop showing daily order status — **Office PC.** Manager dashboard with live counts, services, and alerts.

Mealward kitchen view on an iPad showing aggregate meal counts — **Kitchen iPad.** Aggregate counts and per-item ticks update in real time as PCAs take orders.

Mealward take-orders view on a phone — **PCA phone.** Resident list with dietary tags. One tap to confirm an order.

Mealward take-orders service screen on an iPad — **Bedside iPad.** The same order screen, optimised for tablet-on-the-trolley use during meal service.

Built for aged-care reality

Not a generic food-service app. Designed for residential facilities.

Minced & moist workflow

Auto-skip ordering for texture-modified residents. Prep counts still surface in the kitchen — nothing falls through.

Wing-based workflows

Every facility organises by wings or houses. Mealward matches your floor plan, not the other way around.

Live dietary tag warnings

Allergies, texture levels, religious requirements. Warnings fire at order time — before the plate is assembled.

Australian-hosted, RLS-isolated

Your data never leaves Australia. Row-level security means no cross-organisation leakage. See trust details →

Works on the devices you have

iPads, Android tablets, desktop PCs, nurses' phones. No app install required — it runs in any modern browser.

14-day rotating menu cycles

Set up a fortnight cycle once, then customise per facility. Seasonal specials slot in without rebuilding the whole menu.

Hosted in Australia · APP-aligned · Row-level data isolation · MFA on every admin account · Nightly backups · 7-year audit retention

Full trust details →

Built for residential aged care. Try it now.

demo.mealward.com.au is a live, fully working sandbox. Drop your email at the gate and you're in. Resets every night - explore as much as you like.

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Mealward acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate and pays respect to Elders past and present.