For quality dining in long-term senior care and living settings, the software may be as important as the silverware.
As senior living residents look for healthy and satisfying meal options, LTC providers — particularly those who operate more than community — can only enable that through more efficient foodservice operations.
A new operating system, dineOS, aims to provide this by combining resident-facing tools, like menus and personalized preferences, and administrative tools, such as delivery logistics, onto one platform.
dineOS is the brainchild of CCL Hospitality Group, which provides culinary services to several senior living companies, and MealSuite, a dining tech platform for both assisted and independent living. The two companies announced the partnership, and the upcoming dineOS platform, on Monday.
“The combination of CCL’s expertise and resources with MealSuite’s development focus creates the opportunity to deliver something new and exciting to the industry,” CCL CEO Dan Natterman said in a statement. “dineOS represents a significant leap forward in redefining the standards of excellence in digital hospitality.”
The need to bring more food service technology into senior living has been noted by experts since before the pandemic. Modern platforms can benefit operations in a number of ways, including reducing waste and providing safer, more consistent, and more personalized meal choices, dining service providers have written for McKnight’s.
MealSuite’s current tablet-run ordering platform is capable of providing residents with critical information about nutrition and ingredients, the website states, adding that its back-end operation capabilities extend to wireless temperature sensors that monitor for safe food preparation.
dineOS will start being introduced through CCL’s Morrison Living and Unidine brands in the coming months, the company said.
