Culinary

Feeding the Cultural Heartbeat of Your Community With Dining Services for Senior Living

Our approach to food is simple. Wholesome meals, innovative menus and engaged associates improve everyone’s wellbeing. Your dining program will be rooted in the culture of your community, respecting both your heritage and modern taste trends. Your menus will be entwined with our food philosophy – putting flavour, nutrition and service at the heart of everything we do.

We believe that shared meals and special events serve as the heartbeat of your community’s culture. Whether your residents are dining together or alone in their rooms, your community’s menus and service options should enable them to “personalise” their culinary experience with an array of offerings that support their dietary needs, preferences, schedules and moods. 

Excellence in All Levels of Care

Residents at all levels of care deserve culinary excellence. So do your visitors and associates. It’s central to today’s satisfaction and the brand you project for tomorrow’s residents. It involves not just the plated food, but the way it’s served, the environment of our dining spaces, and close collaboration with the wellness team. It’s a “whole team” strategy that takes into account what we need to do immediately and where we want to head in the future.

Menu and Venue Options for Senior Dining

Building venues and menus that meet the needs of the whole community and each resident is both an art and a science – and its key to resident satisfaction.

Whether they’re dining in your main dining room, at a bistro, or in your memory care dining room, your residents deserve properly balanced menus that allow them to personalise their dining experience.

After assessing your residents’ dining preferences, our frequently rotating menus are designed specifically for your community and generally include:

  • Healthy and indulgent, comfort-food options
  • Venues offering everything from grab-and-go options to casual “bar food” and chef-crafted cuisine
  • Easy-to-understand ingredients that inform diners of allergens and taste profiles, such as “spicy”
  • Dishes that accommodate dietary preferences, such as vegan and vegetarian
  • Options for people with special dietary requirements, including low salt, dairy free, sugar free and low fat
  • Reference to local and sustainable food sources
  • Handheld options for those who have difficulty using utensils
  • High-quality purees and texture-modified options for those with difficulty swallowing

Sourcing Expertise

A partnership with Morrison Living gives you tremendous purchasing power, along with supply chain stability and safety through Foodbuy. As the largest food procurement company in the country, and sole sourcing partner for Compass Group, Foodbuy helps us drive down costs, provides operational insights and audits and streamlines product selection.

Sustainable Dining Options

We respect the earth and the food we take from it. We’ll buy fresh, local proteins and produce when we can. It’s healthier for our residents and the planet. Sustainable sourcing is one of the central elements of Compass Group’s (our parent company) global commitment to achieving Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The sustainable practices we follow include

100% RSPCA Approved Raw Chicken

'Grown here not flown here' program - commitment to local seasonal sourcing

Fighting food waste through our Leanpath waste monitoring system

100% meat and poultry suppliers signed up to the 5 freedoms of animal welfare

Supporting SME, local and Indigenous suppliers

Our job in crafting your menu is twofold

Preparing for special events are a joy for our teams – and also present an added challenge on top of already-busy schedules. That’s why Morrison’s Executive Culinary and Marketing Teams create party kits that make it easy to execute well-planned and resourced events. Each year we develop a theme that is supported with a full year of programming. The kit includes recipes with menus, posters, teasers, table décor and ideas like music and guest artists to further deliver on the theme. Here’s a sampling of recent programs:

Special Events

We constantly look for ways to excite your residents so that they’ll look forward to seeing their friends and enjoying a meal. That’s why we love special events. We use them to spark new experiences and among other things, trigger the taste memories that have marked special times in their lives.

Your dining services team can plan their own events and also draw on a plethora of easy-to-execute resources. Here’s a sampling of recent dining programs for your Residents:

Cooking with Celebrity Chefs

A visit by one of our Celebrity Chefs can give your residents a truly spectacular experience and your community an opportunity for public relations. Think about marketing events and fundraisers. Or create a fun night of entertainment with renowned chefs like Jet Tila (Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen), Aarti Sequeira (Food Network), and Bal Arneson (The Spice Goddess) or leverage our local chef network bringing the best of your city into your community.

Community Teaching Kitchen

Teaching Kitchen brings the fun of hands-on cooking classes to residents. These lively sessions can be conducted in person with your chef or virtually for those who prefer to participate at a distance, in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Whether they are looking for recipe inspiration, seeking to “chop like a pro,” or cook along with family and friends, residents can follow along with our celebrity chefs and community chefs to create delicious meals and snacks.

Honoring Milestones and Holidays

Sometimes it’s taking that extra effort to make an everyday meal special. Birthday celebrations, Sunday brunch, Mardi Gras, Halloween. How about a farmer’s market to celebrate the fall harvest? Or a wine pairing event? There is no limit to our special events and private catering options.

Monthly Themed Events

Preparing for special events are a joy for our teams – and also present an added challenge on top of already-busy schedules. That’s why Morrison’s Executive Culinary and Marketing Teams create party kits that make it easy to execute well-planned and resourced events. Each year we develop a theme that is supported with a full year of programming. The kit includes recipes with menus, posters, teasers, table décor and ideas like music and guest artists to further deliver on the theme. Here’s a sampling of recent programs:

Encore

Heirloom

A Meal in the Life