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A tour through Morrison Living’s Hoosier Village multi-platform dining space

Hoosier Village senior community’s recent dining space transformation produced a new casual bistro, a grab and go market and a bar area in one footprint that also incorporates the pre-existing traditional dining room.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

September 7, 2021

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Begun two years ago but not opened until early this year, the transformation of the dining space at Hoosier Village senior living community in Indiana converted what had been a traditional, inflexible and mostly outdated dining room into a multi-platform area that provides all-day service with options ranging from casual sit-down dining at the Green Onion bistro, all-day grab and go from a market area, a social space for driks and shareable appetizers and tapas in the Pullman Bar and formal dinner service in a revamped dining room.

The changes were overseen by the management company that operates dining for the community, Morrison Living, and incorporates Morrison concepts like its Jack and Olive line of grab-and-go packaged sandwiches, salads and desserts produced in a nearby company commissary.

Here is a photographic look at the dining platforms…

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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