University Retirement Community

seniors avoid sophisticated fare cafeteria

Stand back, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. seniors traveling with gourmet cuisine are demanding high-end retirement communities throughout the country.

Unlike people aged 20 or 30 years we have had the opportunity to experience many more, "said James Arter, 76, a retired chiropractor who lives now in the Shell Point Retirement Community in Fort Myers, Florida even after we move into these communities, we want to live in the same way.

Meals such as halibut plank grilled filet mignon and are becoming more common for many older people express higher expectations cooking.

Many new facilities are hiring chefs to build a better menu. Maureen Boyle, a consultant for food gear manufacturers retirement, says that this trend will only gain momentum as baby boomers age.

Some of these consumers have been exposed to resorts and country club community where they are used for high quality, so they expect to get the same treatment in a pension, "she said.

At Princeton Forrestal windrows, a community near the retirement of Princeton University, Chief William de Mars is promising exciting themed menus and elegant dinners.

Everything is going to be 99% off fresh, and we will be changing our menus, DeMars said. Once we begin, I'm sure others planning to follow suit. In the next year, changer are just really going off everywhere.
residents of retirement are not the only ones to make gourmet meals at the Shell Point Retirement Community. The meals are so popular that people began to dine with residents. In October, Shell Point will complete two other dining areas, there are currently five to meet the demand of the dinner.

Now, we are not only competing with the resident kitchen, but we also compete with local restaurants, "said Al Slickers, hospitality manager at Shell Point.

It's just really amzing what was the reaction of our menus, waxed said.

In Huntley, III, where Del Webb Corp., opened the Sun City community planned retirement, schools receive public fanfare to eat.

Walleye Grill Restaurant and Lounge serves not only with the 900 city-folk, but many indigenous restaurant and voracious.

We set up the plates here, we do not just use regular old food, "said Bill Underwood, a chef.

And he sees more beautiful festivals in the future, as older people continue to want haute cuisine.