ESU is a safe alternative for inmates and mental health patients, providing a humane alternative to eating with fingers.
— CSP-SAC prison authorities in Folsom, California

We Want to Know What YOU Want: Fill Out Our Survey and Win Prizes!

July 17, 2026    /    News

Take the survey HERE!

 

 

We’re expanding our line of safer foodservice-ware and we want to know what YOU want!

 

Do you work in healthcare, corrections, or behavioral health? We want to hear from you! Tell us what will make your life easier, and what you want to see from upcoming ESU products.

 

Complete our survey HERE and be entered to win a Target gift card!

 

Fill out the survey completely and add detailed feedback to join the drawing. PLUS double your chances to win when you give this survey to your foodservice colleague: if they enter, you both can win!

 

 

Paper-wrapped ESU

 

By popular demand, we are developing a wrapped ESU: the same trusted safety utensil, specifically designed to reduce costly and dangerous self-harm incidents for high-risk individuals, with a sanitary paper wrap.

 

• Sanitary paper wrap gives extra protection against the spread of communicable illnesses.
• To reduce excess material, tear off the end of the paper wrap and present to resident to grab.
• Like the original ESU, cannot be sharpened or used for flicking bio-hazards, will not cut skin, and is perforated for quicker breakdown if ingested, inserted, or flushed.
• Promotes dignity, variety, and healing vs. eating with fingers only.
• Made in the USA.

 

 

 

Disposable safety food tray

 

ESU is developing a new disposable tray designed specifically for high-risk individuals in corrections, using a new plant fiber-based technology which is dissolvable, compostable, heatable, and non-melt-able.

 

• The ESU tray breaks down easily and does not cause harm if eaten.
• Helps to prevent self harm and harm to others.
• Lid allows for stackability, and helps keep food warm.
• Lid is separate from the tray: choose whether or not to offer a lid.
• Tray has a separate compartment in the lid to keep cold foods cool; or, use it for a cookie or snack.
• Tray will lose rigidity after a specified period of time, to be determined by this survey – give us your feedback to help us create the best product for your needs!

 

 

Take the survey HERE!

 

 

Here’s how to be entered – click the link below and submit the digital survey:

 

1) Fill out what YOU want in a safer food tray, the more detail the better.

 

2) Then, forward this survey for a colleague in foodservice (they’ll have a chance to win too!), and make sure they put your name under “referred by” which is the last line, and you’ll be entered to win again!

 

 

Take the survey HERE!

 

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