Dining Services Articles
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.
How can senior resident communities make a positive first impression? Glendale Senior Dining President Jim Hecker recommends special events where families and supporters can taste and see the food, and interact with staff one-to-one.
Memorial Day and other warm weather cookouts, picnics and gatherings can be tough for seniors on low sugar diets who can’t enjoy the desserts and sweets that are often a highlight.
On April 1, Glendale Senior Dining becomes the dining service management provider at Maplewood of Cheshire County, a 150-bed Assisted Living and skilled level nursing community in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
Glendale Senior Dining, Inc. has come of age since it started serving New England senior resident communities a year ago this month. It marks its first anniversary with a strong customer base of ten senior residences. That’s more than double the company’s initial projections and a remarkable track record, considering that the typical industry growth rate is five to six new customers a year.
Since launching in January 2014, the wholly owned subsidiary of Café Services, Inc. has earned the business of eight New England senior resident facilities. Three including the prestigious Somerville Home, Zelma Lacey House and Assisted Living Center of Salisbury (all in Massachusetts), opened in quick succession over a brief period spanning August through November.