Before / after
A photo when the tray is served and another at the end of the meal document what is left.
Care homes & senior living
Understand meals
actually eaten
by each resident.
From a mobile application, Skeal turns quickly captured meal photos into useful data to better understand preferences, textures, portions and plate waste.
For your teams
Tray monitoring without adding a heavy process
Skeal helps teams make meal observations more consistent and useful.
By dish
Results are organised by dish and by meal to make trends easier to read.
Human review
Analyses can be reviewed and corrected: professionals remain in control.
A continuous workflow
Light capture designed for care services.
The workflow fits the meal moments: service, clearance, then data review.
Prepare the meal
Dishes and the required meal information are available in the app.
Photograph the tray
A photo before and after the meal documents consumption.
Review and act
The portal makes relevant information visible to authorised teams.
A shared view
Meal data that supports coordination
The portal helps teams follow consumption trends and share the same information across the ward, dietetics and food service.
- Reading by meal and dish
- History available according to roles
- Items to review visible in the workflow
Meal monitoring in senior living
Every observed meal supports nutrition monitoring.
Each resident’s consumption matters for nutrition monitoring, while every dish helps steer operations. Yet manual observations remain difficult to share and follow over time, even as preferences, textures and portions change every day.
With minimal impact on teams, Skeal documents meals served and cleared in dining rooms and patient rooms, giving teams a structured view of what is actually eaten.
30–40%
Residents may be affected by malnutrition. With higher needs, including protein, their intake is often insufficiently documented.
Source: Avise Nutrition white paper · Aline VictorFood waste,
a related data point
a related data point
30 %
€72kper year for
80 residents
+ Better consumption visibility helps personalise menus and portions, support nutrition and achieve savings.
For your teams
Meal monitoring, without making the service heavier
Skeal turns observations made at mealtime into consistent, structured and shareable data.
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Lightweight set-up
A standard tablet on a support on a dining-room trolley, or a smartphone in a pocket for trays served in resident rooms.
Before / after
A photo of each served dish variation, assigned to residents by diet and texture, then a photo at clearance when a dish is unfinished.
At every meal
Our AI analyses consumption situations, provides a percentage by dish and follows each resident over time for nutrition and food waste, or food waste alone.
Human review
Data remains reviewable by authorised professionals. Your teams keep the decision.
A continuous workflow
Your residence and its meals, always up to date.
Capture every meal served each day, keep residents and menus up to date simply, and benefit from consistently precise data for one or several sites.
Menus and residents
Simple import and update tools for residents. Menus are enriched using the CIQUAL1 database and portions use GEM-RCN2 recommendations.
Serve — record
In the dining room, resident room or elsewhere, whether meals are served at table or on trays: each photo pair generates structured consumption data.
Review and act
Measurements are consolidated in the Skeal portal. Authorised teams access individual data and trends useful for nutrition and food service.
1 CIQUAL: French reference database for food composition. 2 GEM-RCN: reference guidance for portion sizes in collective catering.
Nutrition monitoring
Follow consumption changes meal after meal
Skeal gives teams a longitudinal view of each resident's food consumption. Meals become actionable data for identifying changes that deserve attention.
- Consumption by meal and component
- Consumption trends by resident
- Context for textures and diets served
- Identification of dishes eaten or left aside
- Alerts based on defined rules
- Individual history by user access rights
Recommendations call for regular review of consumption by dish type, resident satisfaction, waste trends, nutritional status and the fit between proposed menus and identified preferences.
Food-service performance
Turn observed meals into decisions for your food service
The same data helps food-service and nutrition teams understand what is really happening on the plate. It identifies dishes, portions and menus to adjust.
- Consumption and waste by dish
- Analysis by meal, unit and period
- Comparison between dish categories
- Identification of recipes and portions that are least suitable
- Waste trends by weight and value
- Associated environmental indicators
One meal produces data that is useful for residents and for the establishment's food-service performance.
In video
Practical meal insights for senior living teams.
See what residents eat, refuse or leave, and share useful insights across care teams.
Evidence & references
Belage Group, a pilot project
in senior living
Within a group of 22 care homes, Skeal was tested with staff at a city-centre residence, in the dining room close to the kitchen and care teams.
- Setting
- Serving residents in the dining room.
- Need
- Monitor food-service performance and food waste.
- Solution
- An application to support meal recording.
- Outcome
- Improved information flow for managers.
- Improvements
- Low-bandwidth functionality and management of substitute dishes.
FAQ
Questions, answered clearly.
Does Skeal replace team observation?
No. Skeal complements observation with consumption data; teams remain the decision makers.
Can analyses be corrected?
Yes. Teams retain the ability to review and correct analyses according to configured permissions.
Can we start with a limited scope?
Yes. Deployment can start with one unit or selected meals before a progressive rollout.