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Elevate Senior Dining with 2025’s Trends

Culinary Services Group

Or are you reading this blog and realizing you should have started your annual dining program review a little earlier? Weve rounded up the most anticipated food trends for 2025. However, before we jump into next years predictions, you might remember last years blog predicting 2024s food trends.

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5 Senses, 1 Goal: Inclusive Dining for Memory Care Residents

Culinary Services Group

In this blog, you’ll learn what it’s like for residents with dementia in the dining room and ways to improve their experience using the senses. Our Empower Finger Foods program is one way we incorporate thoughtful considerations into our food service management plans, extending dining inclusivity to residents with memory impairments.

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Training with Heart: Building Empathy and Excellence in Senior Dining Teams

Culinary Services Group

The food service management industry is rapidly adopting technology to make ordering. If your dining program hasn’t started implementing new types of technology, you run the risk of missing out on new systems and services that could make your dining program more effective.

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4 Strategies for Managing Your Food Budget When Grocery Prices Keep Rising

Culinary Services Group

In 2021, we wrote a blog about increasing food costs as the world was still grappling with the aftereffects of COVID-19. Thankfully, many in the food industry are bouncing back from these challenges and are seeing improvements and new gains for their business. Don’t try tackling the ever-changing food economy alone.

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Create Belonging in Senior Living by Diversifying Dining Programs

Culinary Services Group

In this blog, we’ll explore how food can be a powerful tool in promoting diversity and inclusion in senior living dining. Impact, Not Intent In senior living communities, good intentions aren’t enough when it comes to food service management. Impact matters more than intent.

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Building Your Team from Within: How to Retain Your Best Food Service Employees

Culinary Services Group

In 2023, we shared our best practices for retaining food service employees. In this blog, we’ve updated our suggestions and included ways to identify strong leaders within your team and create a strategic, teamwork-focused plan to set your kitchen up for long-term success.

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Staffing Trends in Food Service 

Culinary Services Group

Without keeping these factors in mind during your hiring process, you’ll end up with gaps in your service that could be detrimental to the overall functioning of your community. In this blog, we’ll debrief you on today’s food service staffing trends and give you some ways to implement them.

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