Tips from Trestle: The Senior Living Food and Hospitality Podcast

In this episode of Tips From Trestle, Aaron talks with Margaret Roche about why senior living owners, operators, and management should invest in creating a nutrition philosophy and how doing so can guide them to create amazing outcomes in a number of areas with their food & beverage operation.  

Margaret Roche MS, RD, CSG, CDE, FADA is the founder of Roche Dietitians and a nationally recognized leader in nutrition consulting. Maggie and her team at Roche Dietitians create strategies that help health care organizations and businesses that support healthcare distinguish themselves through food and nutrition.  Maggie is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in clinical nutrition. She has advanced credentials as a certified diabetes educator, is board certified as a specialist in gerontological nutrition and is distinguished as a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.  

Tips From Trestle is a podcast focused on discussion about senior living food & hospitality. Hosted by Aaron Fish, he shares his thoughts, musings and discussions about the food & beverage operations, trends and happenings in the senior living industry. To support the podcast, click here: https://anchor.fm/tips-from-trestle/support 

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In this solo podcast, Aaron talks directly to the listeners about the need for the executive director to not just be aware of what is going on in their dining room, but offers his Five Daily Food & Beverage Tasks for the Executive Director that will allow them to be successful senior living operators and be a leader for their overall community team.

Tips From Trestle is a podcast focused on discussion about senior living food & hospitality. Hosted by Aaron Fish, he shares his thoughts, musings and discussions about the food & beverage operations, trends and happenings in the senior living industry.

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Aaron Fish: www.linkedin.com/in/aaronfish 

Trestle Hospitality Concepts: www.trestlehospitalityconcepts.com

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Innovative thinking pulled from all areas of hospitality and healthcare is going to be required to continue to make the industry the best it can be moving forward. Creating an environment of trust for employees, residents, and families will be a key component of a making our communities great.  In Part Two of our conversation with Hands 4 Life Founder & CEO Stacy Shewey, host Aaron Fish gets into the nuts and bolts of how Stacy's vision of a global senior living community model can and should be developed using hospitality experience as well as creating a person-centered approach that allows for trust to exist at all levels of the organization to create the best outcomes for residents.  

In 2016, Hands 4Life founder Stacy Shewey traveled to Haiti as part of a mission trip. On that trip, she visited a newly constructed community that included an assisted living facility for the elderly. Witnessing first hand the tremendous need in the developing world for high-quality, compassionate care for the elderly,Stacy began a journey that would lead to the creation of Hands 4Life – one of the few non-profit missionary organizations whose primary focus is on caring for the elderly in developing nations. The need has never been greater.   As nations worldwide struggle to prepare for this global ageing crisis, developing countries are particularly at risk of lacking the adequate health, housing, and other services an aging population will require. Drawing on Stacy’s experience in the assisted living industry, partnerships with established humanitarian organizations, and with a firm reliance on God’s word and His grace, Hands 4Life is committed to ensuring that our most vulnerable seniors live out their days in a safe, supportive and spiritually nurturing environment.  

Tips From Trestle is a podcast focused on discussion about senior living food & hospitality. Hosted by Aaron Fish, he shares his thoughts, musings and discussions about the food & beverage operations, trends and happenings in the senior living industry.  

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Hands 4 Life: https://hands4life.net/ 

Stacy Shewey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-shewey-89747a115/ 

Aaron Fish: www.linkedin.com/in/aaronfish 

Trestle Hospitality Concepts: www.trestlehospitalityconcepts.com  

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6sS5tpkqDRQ

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62% of people over 60 years of age live in developing countries; by 2050 this number will have risen to 80%. 👀

In this Part One of a two episode conversation on Tips from Trestle, The Senior Living Food & Hospitality Podcast, host Aaron Fish speaks with Stacy Shewey, Founder & CEO of Hands 4 Life. Stacy shares with Aaron the purpose and goals of Hands 4 Life, and how they are tackling the aging crisis across the globe, and how their approach to program development is based in hospitality principles. We get educated on the global aging crisis and how Stacy is using her experience in both senior living and the hospitality industry to develop her vision for a new model of senior living community.

In 2016, Hands 4Life founder Stacy Shewey traveled to Haiti as part of a mission trip. On that trip, she visited a newly constructed community that included an assisted living facility for the elderly. Witnessing first hand the tremendous need in the developing world for high-quality, compassionate care for the elderly,Stacy began a journey that would lead to the creation of Hands 4Life – one of the few non profit missionary organizations whose primary focus is on caring for the elderly in developing nations. The need has never been greater. 

As nations worldwide struggle to prepare for this global ageing crisis, developing countries are particularly at risk of lacking the adequate health, housing, and other services an aging population will require. Drawing on Stacy’s experience in the assisted living industry, partnerships with established humanitarian organizations, and with a firm reliance on God’s word and His grace, Hands 4Life is committed to ensuring that our most vulnerable seniors live out their days in a safe, supportive and spiritually nurturing environment.

Tips From Trestle is a podcast focused on discussion about senior living food & hospitality. Hosted by Aaron Fish, he shares his thoughts, musings and discussions about the food & beverage operations, trends and happenings in the senior living industry.

Links: 

Hands 4 Life: https://hands4life.net/

Stacy Shewey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-shewey-89747a115/

Aaron Fish: www.linkedin.com/in/aaronfish

Trestle Hospitality Concepts: www.trestlehospitalityconcepts.com

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In this episode of Tips from Trestle, The Senior Living Food & Hospitality Podcast, host Aaron Fish speaks with Nigel Smith, CEO & Founder of Zurena LLC. They discuss how Zurena came about, how what Nigel is doing translates into the senior living space, and just have a great time talking about beverages in general.  

Best described as Caribbean bartenders in bottles, Zurena LLC produces and supplies a portfolio of premium, universal drink mixers. Their mixers create high quality tropical cocktails in seconds when added to any spirit, aperitif, bubbly or lager beer. Because our mixers contain no alcohol, they also create high quality tropical mocktails in seconds when added to club soda, teas, juices, milk shakes or crushed ice. They work just as effectively with hot bases, and produce a variety of hot toddies with or without alcohol. They are all-natural, gluten and sodium free for those who care what they put in their bodies. There are no products in the world like Zurena all-natural drink mixers.  

Prior to becoming full-time CEO at Zurena LLC in late 2020, Nigel Smith spent over 20 years in strategy and innovation roles at some of the most admired brands in the world, including AARP Innovation Labs, Visa USA and McKinsey & Company. Nigel holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BBA from Howard University. He volunteers with numerous initiatives aligned with his life purpose to uplift communities and to empower Davids in a land of Goliaths. Nigel also serves as a board member of two international insurance companies, where he get sto apply strategic and innovation direction at the highest governance levels.  

Tips From Trestle is the podcast discussion senior living food & hospitality. It's hosted by Aaron Fish, and he shares his thoughts, musings and discussions about the food & beverage operations, trends and happenings in the senior living industry.  

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Zurena: www.myzurena.com 

Nigel Smith: www.linkedin.com/in/nigelvsmith/

Aaron Fish: www.linkedin.com/in/aaronfish 

Trestle Hospitality Concepts: www.trestlehospitalityconcepts.com  

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TFT Host Aaron Fish talks in this episode about a key ingredient that is glaringly missing from your recruitment process, and once addressed could make your hiring quality improve drastically..

"Everyone has a starting point, and a story. This is mine, and why I do what I do."

Aaron shares a little more of his personal journey and talks about the little red golf ball on his wall and what its importance is to him and the listeners.

TFT Host Aaron Fish takes a deeper look at some of the facts and figures around employee engagement. And it's not nearly as good as you may have hoped. 

But - he has some strategies and tactics that our frontline leaders can implement (and our executive leaders support) that will allow them to take ownership of their employee engagement and make their communities buck the trends.

On this episode of TFT, Aaron talks about customer service, and how LEGO® - the toy maker known for tiny building blocks - has taken their customer service philosophy to the next level. 

He explains why this can an should be a model for senior living operators to model as they look to create culture around customer service that today's employees can easily embrace.

In this episode of Tips From Trestle, Aaron talks about trends that are expected to be seen in restaurants in 2022. He deep dives into his top three and explains why he thinks that senior living operators should jump on these trends now to make an impact on their food & beverage offerings.