Webinar: Out with the Old, In with the New: Improving Dining Through Design & Operations

Senior living dining has grown far beyond food service—today it shapes comfort, connection, and community. This webinar explores how dining environments evolve when operations and design work together. Through two real-world case studies, we’ll look at how kitchen flow, equipment strategy, and service models align with finishes, lighting, acoustics, and spatial planning to create meaningful experiences. One project reimagines a 50-year-old community with a renewed foundation; the other shows how limited space can still deliver a high-impact dining venue. Attendees will learn how thoughtful planning supports efficiency, hospitality, and the expectations of today’s residents.

Takeaways

• Align operations and design to improve efficiency, service quality, and overall dining experience.
• Identify key design elements - layout, equipment, lighting, acoustics, and finishes—that activate both performance and hospitality.
• Apply lessons from real projects to upgrade dining venues within existing constraints and evolving resident expectations.

Speaker: JD Landis, Senior Designer with SFCS, Inc.

CEU Certificate of Attendance available for webinar attendees.