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How senior living dining is being impacted by restaurant trends

Expert insights reveal how foodservice is changing in retirement communities.

Patricia Cobe, Senior Editor

March 6, 2020

1 Min Read
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Expert insights from Technomic and Restaurant Business reveal how foodservice is changing in retirement communities.Photograph: Shutterstock

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As baby boomers move into retirement communities, operators are facing new challenges when it comes to menu planning and development. This generation is looking for a dining experience that is closer to eating in restaurants, offering more flexibility and variety. In this episode of Menu Feed, we talk with Wade Hanson, principal with Technomic, and Sara Rush Wirth, former content director for FoodService Director and Restaurant Business, about the restaurant trends that are impacting and changing foodservice in senior living.

About the Author

Patricia Cobe

Senior Editor

Pat plans and executes the menu sections of Restaurant Business and FoodService Director, covering food and beverage trends, Menu R&D, profiles of chefs and restaurateurs and Technomic research. She also contributes to the digital content of both RB and FSD and is editor of two weekly e-newsletters, Recipe Report and On the Menu. Pat’s weekly podcast, MenuFeed, covers a wide range of menu topics through interviews with chefs and operators.

Pat came to Winsight from Hearst, where she was an executive editor. She is the co-author of the Mompreneurs series of books as well as two cookbooks. She graduated from Cornell University and earned a Masters in Journalism from Boston University. She is active in several professional organizations, including Les Dames d’Escoffier and the International Foodservice Editorial Council (IFEC), and serves as a judge for the James Beard Media Awards.

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