Dining Services Articles

Baby boomers are demanding more from their senior housing food service. Is your senior living facility addressing these senior living dining trends in 2018?

There’s a transition from the formal dining rooms to more casual dining service happening, addressing the unpopular regiment of a 5 o’clock dinner…

A growing demand for restaurant-inspired dining experiences, regulations, skilled talent shortages and pressures to do more with less are prompting forward-looking operators to outsource dining management to dining service providers that specialize in not-for-profit communities.

This article details a number of things to consider when choosing an assisted living food service company, including the benefits, what to look for and questions to ask.

Todd Lindsay, Glendale Senior Dining Director of Business Development, says mapping out and practicing multiple plan b’s based on different scenarios is central to the firm’s ability to provide uninterrupted service.

A quality meal served by caring, skilled professionals is a source of comfort and vitality to people in need. To people learning to overcome the challenges of living independently with blindness, it’s a much needed respite from the hard work of training and rehabilitation…

Running a dining services program in a senior living or residential healthcare community is a lot more complex than it used to be. Residents expect more than just three square meals a day. Today, they seek communities that can cater to their demands for variety and convenience.

Residents of senior and rehabilitation communities expect to be treated to a special, celebratory meal on a major holiday like Thanksgiving or Easter Sunday. But what about a meatball tasting adventure on a dreary, late-winter Tuesday in March, or a juicy watermelon fest to cool the taste buds during the dog days of summer?

For the elderly living in senior resident communities, celebrating personal milestones with friends and family is vital to enjoying a better quality of life…

To people in need, few experiences offer more dignity or comfort than a quality meal served by caring, attentive, skilled professionals.