Senior Living Food Services
Historically, senior living food services was mass produced, often characterized as lacking quality, variety, and value – which reflected badly on institutions and service providers seeking to retain the patronage and goodwill of consumers.
Today, Glendale Dining Services™ has risen to effectively shatter the stereotype and squelch the stigma of institutional foodservice by providing restaurant style food services for institutions throughout the eastern U.S.
As the Food Service Company brand dedicated to providing restaurant-style dining for institutions, Glendale Dining Services has become recognized as a leading provider of family style dining and hospitality for several types of healthcare facilities, elderly care facilities, senior care communities, and residential special schools.
A New Era of Senior Care Dining Solutions
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Senior care dining solutions are exemplified by our professional chefs working in your on-site kitchen, ushering in an exciting new era of elderly care food services. They craft fresh, creative, and healthy menus that delight your clients, patients, visitors, and employees. We can also partner with you to develop strategic, accessible dining venues that support everyone in your facility.
Our clients include for-profit and not-for-profit providers of health and rehabilitation services, independent living communities, senior care, special care, and special education throughout New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Culinary Services for Seniors
Culinary services for seniors, provided by Glendale Dining Services, bring peace of mind as they diligently and compliantly address the specific culinary needs and preferences of the elderly.
Our professional teams, including chefs, dietitians, and dining managers, support mission-critical facility leaders in fulfilling their core commitments to senior communities.
Senior Housing Culinary Services
Our senior housing culinary services redefine the dining experience for elderly residents by offering a specialized and thoughtful approach to nutrition. Our dedicated team of culinary experts is committed to providing not just meals but a gastronomic journey that aligns with the unique dietary needs and preferences of seniors. From deliciously curated menus to fostering a warm dining ambiance, our services go beyond sustenance, enriching the lives of seniors in our care. Senior Living Dining Services elevate the culinary aspect of senior living, offering tailored culinary services where nourishment seamlessly intertwines with delightful dining experiences.
The Best Senior Living Culinary Solutions
Senior living culinary solutions represent a dynamic response to the ever-evolving landscape of non-commercial food services, institutional food management, and healthcare dining contracting. Our collective team, spanning actively-involved owners, corporate chefs, registered dietitians, operations managers, marketing specialists, and front-line hospitality professionals, is dedicated to advancing with the industry and pioneering culinary excellence. This commitment positions us as the foremost provider of senior living culinary solutions in the regions we serve, ensuring unparalleled results for our clients.
National Senior Living Dining Services – Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better
Many international senior living dining services companies offer common, universal, cookie-cutter services that fail to adequately or cost-effectively rise to the noncommercial food service challenges of today’s special schools, healthcare and rehabilitation centers, senior residences, independent living, and senior care communities. This is often because their global-controlled business structures can limit the scope and flexibility of their offerings.
Three key differentiators that give Glendale Dining Services a competitive advantage include our firm’s size, locally-managed business model, and corporate philosophy. Our business model is purposely large enough to generate the significant buying power that enables us to cost-effectively source food and products from local and national vendors. Glendale Dining Services has also become an attractive company for employees to join, as the training and development opportunities are significant. Yet, we’re also small enough to offer our clients the truly flexible and scalable dining options that have proven to add tremendous value to their organizations. We work to steadily earn our clients’ confidence by generating a positive return on their investment in institutional food service management.
Our reputation for success stems from our corporate philosophy of partnering with clients to learn their goals and budgets, and then sharing our culinary expertise and experience to collaboratively develop custom dining programs that uphold their mission, delight their audiences, and enhance their image.
Senior Living Kitchen Services: Committed Professionals Enhancing Your Success
Our senior living kitchen services radiate a passion for food service management excellence in every community served by Glendale Dining Services. From our kitchens and cafeterias to auxiliary dining areas, this commitment is evident in the warm smiles of our dedicated employees and the satisfaction of delighted diners. Infusing everything we do, this passion enriches the preparation and service of mouth watering fresh food, as well as the maintenance of clean, attractive, vibrant environments that foster a positive relationship between people and food.
Our focus on treating your foodservice program as our own is evident in the many ways we support your success, including accessible managers, dedicated employees, and outstanding daily performance.
Nutritious Meals for Seniors
Nutritious meals for seniors are encompassed in our full suite of food management programs for institutions, which includes:
- Health Care Foodservice Management
- Continuing Care Foodservice Management
- Senior Care Food Services
- Residential Special School Food Services
Whether you operate a for-profit or not-for-profit facility, you can count on the Glendale Dining Services team to embrace your goals and provide fresh, healthful cuisine that caters to the diverse menu needs of your clients, patients, students, guests, visitors, and employees. In short, our goal is to facilitate your success by supporting everyone under your roof with extraordinary meal experiences that support their dignity and privacy, and empower them to achieve their desired outcomes.
Senior Care Food Providers
As dedicated senior care food providers, we specialize in delivering culinary excellence tailored to the unique needs of elderly individuals. Our team of professional chefs and nutrition experts is committed to crafting wholesome, flavorful, and nutritionally balanced meals that cater to the specific dietary requirements of seniors. With a focus on quality, freshness, and innovation, we take pride in enhancing the dining experience for seniors in supportive housing, nursing homes, and other care facilities. Discover a comprehensive approach to senior nutrition that prioritizes well-being and satisfaction with our senior care food providers.
Senior Nutrition Catering for 3 Major Types of Facilities
Senior nutrition catering by Glendale Dining Services specializes in the caring, compliant, and responsive operation of Healthcare Dining Services, Senior Living Food Services, and Special School Dining support for facilities that serve residential patrons.
The noncommercial food services we provide for these three major categories are thoughtfully designed to gratify the diverse culinary preferences and dietary necessities of each community’s clients, patients, students, visitors, and employees.
Our Healthcare Dining Services Support Residential Facilities such as:
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- County Nursing Homes
- Dementia / Memory Care Center
- Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers
- Hospice Care
- Medical Rehabilitation
- Memory Care Centers
- Skilled Nursing Centers
- Special Care Facilities
Our Senior Living Food Services Support Live-in Facilities such as:
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- Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC)
- Congregate Care Housing
- Independent Living for Residents
- Retirement Communities
Our Special School Food Services Support Residential Schools That Teach Students With:
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- Alternate Learning Methods
- Boarding School Options
- Emotional Supports
- Holistic Care
- Individualized Lesson Plans
- Integrated Instruction
- Preparatory Programs
- Special Education
- Transition to Mainstream
9 Advantages of Contracting Glendale Dining Services as Your Culinary Partner
Our growing family of clients with facilities that support the health, wellbeing and special education of clients throughout CT, RI, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NY, PA, and VT appreciate these vital advantages of our culinary support:
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- Flavorful Homestyle Food Made from Scratch
- Creative, Chef-inspired Menus and Dinner Themes
- Warm, Nurturing Hospitality
- In-house Professionally Trained Staff with Direct Accountability
- Respect for Your Population’s Dignity
- Honor of Cultural Diversity
- Commitment to Sustainable Sourcing and Practices
- Compliance Assurance
- Positive Return on Your Financial Investment
Flavorful Homestyle Food Made from Scratch
We specialize in developing menus that appeal to the multifaceted dietary needs, values and preferences of dining audiences spanning multiple age groups, cultures, and backgrounds. Our registered dietitians and dedicated chefs draw upon their experience to expertly-craft fresh, flavorful, made-from-scratch food that appeals to all audiences with its delicious homestyle taste and restaurant quality presentation.
Creative, Chef-inspired Menus and Dinner Themes
Our creative chefs regularly rise to the challenge of maintaining culinary excitement by devising restaurant-inspired recipes and dinner themes. This commitment to dispel dining dullness prompts diners to partake of themed meals that feature healthy, homestyle entrees, side dishes, and desserts that satisfy their personal preferences, tastes, diets and nutritional needs.
In-house Professionally Trained Staff with Direct Accountability
You can count on our Glendale Dining Services in-house staff of seasoned culinary and hospitality professionals to help you achieve your goals by delivering uninterrupted foodservice support for your mission-critical organization. We recruit and employ top talent, and enhance their skills with comprehensive training to accomplish several objectives.
Initially, our training expands each employee’s professional understanding of diners’ needs in environments that promote health, rehabilitation, independent and elderly care, and special education – which serves to deepen their compassion and shape their supportive mindset. Our training also reinforces our team’s complete knowledge of local, state and national foodservice regulations such as ServSafe® training, food sanitation and safety, and quality control, to ensure that we maintain your facility’s consistent compliance.
Consistent throughout our firm’s leadership of actively-involved owners and extending through our ranks of corporate and district managers is a dedication to being highly-accessible and responsive to your unique needs. In fact, associates in all positions company-wide are encouraged and empowered to make thoughtful decisions with regard to the best interests of those they serve.
The direct accountability you gain from this single-source, professionally contracted foodservice management far outweighs your investment. It promotes your values, streamlines your operation, and reduces your risk of noncompliance, as well as diner dissatisfaction.
Respect for Your Population’s Dignity
Inpatients and outpatients in health and rehabilitation facilities, as well as boarding or day students in special schools, all appreciate the comforting, restaurant-quality meals prepared and served by Glendale Dining Services’ compassionate, discreet hospitality professionals. We understand that our respect for your population’s dignity and privacy can assist their recovery, wellbeing, and learning.
We also understand that some people appreciate being asked for their input and choices regarding menu options, dining settings, and themed dining events, as this inclusiveness can offer them a sense of meaningful control that enhances their independence and supports their dignity.
Honor of Culinary Diversity
Daily living centers around food. Our team of hospitality experts regularly craft custom menus and themed dining experiences. This support engages everyone in your facility, from consumers to employees, and inspires them to partake and benefit from exciting food experiences that empower their success.
Commitment to Sustainable Sourcing and Practices
Environmental sustainability is a common priority we share with many of the communities we support.
Our chefs take pride in creating high quality cuisine that features seasonal, locally sourced ingredients as often as practicable.
Some of the additional ways we incorporate sustainable practices into our daily work, to help our clients demonstrate their mutual commitment, include:
- Sourcing foodstuffs and products from trustworthy, socially-responsible vendors
- Maintaining the nutritional quality and integrity of the ingredients we use
- Initiating green practices such as buying local, and minimally-processing fresh food
- Adopting the tools and practices that reduce waste of resources and improve efficiency
- Engaging in responsible recycling, and use of biodegradable packaging and serving products
- Increasing energy efficiency and using environmentally-friendly cleaning products
Compliance Assurance
Today’s increasingly-regulated foodservice environment makes it more important than ever to retain the in-house support and resources of experts who fully understand the complexities and nuances of how to plan and document a compliant culinary program. Our Glendale Dining Services team applies their thorough knowledge of ever-changing regulations surrounding not-for-profit meal service management. This reduces your risk by ensuring consistent compliance throughout your community’s specialized dining offerings.
Positive Return on Your Financial Investment
Glendale Dining Services facilitates a positive return on your financial investment in the quality dining services you offer to clients, patients, guests and employees of your healthcare or rehabilitation center, senior residence, independent living community, senior care community, or residential special school.
We constantly strive to streamline our operational systems and processes to achieve cost-effectiveness without sacrificing quality.
Senior Nutrition Programs: Nourishing Well-being for Vibrant Living
Our comprehensive Senior Nutrition Programs are crafted to prioritize the health and vitality of elderly individuals. Tailored to address the unique dietary needs and preferences of seniors, our programs go beyond providing meals—they are designed to enhance overall well-being. With a focus on quality, nutrition, and culinary excellence, we are dedicated to fostering a healthier and more vibrant lifestyle for the senior community. Discover the difference that thoughtful and personalized nutrition can make in promoting a fulfilling and active life during the golden years.
Healthcare Food Service Trends
What’s New in Healthcare Food Service Management
Today’s healthcare administrative professionals face rising demands and pressures that stem from industry consolidation and competition, government programs and regulations, and the increasingly-discerning tastes and preferences of their clients, patients and employees. Accordingly, healthcare facility operators who recognize the positive impact that forward-thinking food service management strategies contribute to boosting people’s satisfaction are most likely to prosper and position themselves to satisfy more audiences throughout all economic cycles.
6 Food Service Management Trends Among Healthcare Facilities
Innovative Cafeteria Dining
Today’s healthcare food management experts are seeking to transform opinions and update attitudes toward on-site institutional dining. Cafeterias and dining rooms have become destinations that deliver sought-after value – from quality ingredients and menu options; to innovative presentation; to thoughtful layout and attractive décor – all in support of creating extraordinary dining experiences that enhance the health and wellbeing of patients, guests, and staff members.
Custom Menus and Nutrition for Seniors
Nutrition for seniors is enhanced by the access, control, and warm hospitality of restaurant-style room service, appreciated by patients. This proven service model increases patient satisfaction and helps to manage operating costs. Patients may choose from menus of a-la-carte breakfast, lunch and dinner items served from morning through late evening. Menus can be modified to satisfy specific dietary needs and nutritional requirements. Patient room service also mitigates the pressure of cooking and serving food to accommodate predetermined meal delivery times. By nature of the made-to-order concept, patient room service also cost-effectively reduces waste.
Innovative Menu Themes
Today’s health care user audiences of clients, patients, visitors and employees are inspired and motivated by chef-prepared restaurant-quality menus that creatively incorporate ethnic themes and flavors in healthy ways. Satisfaction soars and dining is delightful when people are treated to a variety of ingredients and flavors that honor cultural richness and diversity.
Restaurant inspired trends including beautiful fresh in-season produce and artisan cheeses, limited time offers, exhibition cooking stations, distinctive seasonal specialties, moctails, Bistro concepts, holiday and special themed celebrations such as; Mardi Gras, Diner Days, Hawaiian Luau, interactive old-fashioned ice cream making demonstrations and scores of other innovative dining options all serve as hallmarks of a content and satisfied resident community.
Convenient Micromarket Retail Cafés for Employees
While rehabilitation clients enjoy their own specific types of in-house meal services, and visitors benefit from innovative new cafeteria offerings, an emerging trend that benefits employees is the rise of convenient on-site micromarket retail cafes. Micromarkets are accessible to employees via key codes or magnetic stripe cards, and offer around-the-clock cashless convenience, value, and healthy meal options for staff members working all shifts in mission-critical healthcare environments.
Decentralized Dining Areas
Some healthcare environments, particularly senior care facilities, are offering well-appointed, attractive and convenient decentralized dining rooms that support an authentic dining experience for residents, patients and visitors. Additionally, cafeteria layouts are appearing less-centralized, with food stations that provide unique culinary experiences and “food edutainment” as chefs prepare made-to-order options and interactively educate and entertain diners while discussing ingredients, recipes, and choices of healthy, flavorful cuisine.
Elevating the Dining Experience
Today’s consumers across all industries expect more from their dining experiences, and healthcare is at the forefront of this trend in many ways. Increasingly, next generations are entering healthcare facilities, and they – as well as the friends and family members who visit them – are seeking more than the traditional cafeterias and typical tray-service breakfast, lunch and suppers of their predecessors. The rise of themed dining programs, café food stations, decentralized dining areas, and custom-menu room service are all significant trends that successful healthcare facilities have implemented to support the overall satisfaction of their patients, visitors, and staff.
The Glendale Dining Services team’s full-service, dedicated and caring support is evident in the various ways that we deliver excellence in culinary hospitality and management to each community we serve. Our team respectfully considers and prioritizes your mission, goals and budget, as we partner with you to enhance the wellbeing of your clients, patients, students, and staff. This value you gain from this professionally contracted foodservice management is worth much more than your investment, as it maximizes your effectiveness, minimizes your risk and boosts your bottom line.