How to Calculate Food Costs to Maximize Profits

how to calculate food costs

Calculating food costs goes beyond numbers; it’s about making smart decisions that impact your dining services, resident satisfaction, and overall financial health. In senior living, where dining is a key aspect of care, understanding food costs helps you manage resources effectively. Here’s how you can accurately calculate your food costs to reach your financial goals. …

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How Does a Menu Management System Work?

Menu Management System

In senior living, dining is more than just a meal—it’s an experience that shapes residents’ daily lives. That’s why FullCount’s menu management system is designed to do more than just organize; it transforms how your community delivers personalized, efficient, and satisfying dining experiences.  A centralized menu planning feature allows your dining team to create, modify,…

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Ingleside Enhances Resident Experience with User-Friendly Design

Enhanced Resident Satisfaction

“FullCount is a company open to client suggestions that actually does something about it. Believe it or not, it’s so rare in senior living.” – Dusanka Delovska-Trajkova, Chief Information Officer at Ingleside. Ingleside, the parent organization of three premiere, not-for-profit Life Plan Communities in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area, is recognized for its dedication to…

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Flexible Payments, Better Notifications, & Exciting Updates from FullCount

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In our continuous effort to evolve alongside the senior living industry, we’re thrilled to share a series of updates from FullCount. Our aim is to enhance the functionality and flexibility of our solutions, ensuring they meet the diverse needs of our clients and their communities. Here’s what’s new: New Credit Card Integration Options We’ve expanded…

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Automated Stores Transform Senior Living

Unattended retail

Senior living communities have long needed a convenient place to get essential food and beverage options. Café or dining setups are limited in their hours, while vending machines don’t provide desired items like salads or sandwiches.  Ideally, these communities need automated stores open 24/7. These are a convenient solution that provides a diverse selection of healthy…

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5 Strategies for Senior Living Community

Strong senior living community

In the heart of every thriving senior living community lies a core element that significantly enhances the quality of life for its residents: a sense of community. This fundamental aspect of communal living plays a pivotal role in ensuring not just the physical well-being of seniors, but also their emotional and social health. As society…

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Nutrition Innovations in Senior Living Communities

Senior Living Nutrition

Nutrition holds a pivotal place in the senior living industry because it is essential for managing chronic diseases, meeting changing dietary needs, and enhancing overall quality of life for older adults. It’s time for communities to leverage the power of nutrition not only to provide meals to residents but to improve their satisfaction and health. Let’s…

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Resident Portal: A Game Changer in Your Dining Room 

Resident Portal

A key feature of a comprehensive, Point of Sale system for senior living is a resident portal. FullCount’s portal is designed to enhance the lives of senior living operators and residents. With the integrated portal, your residents can make dining reservations, view menus, place orders online, and check account information quickly and easily. The online…

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Labor Crisis: Bad Now and Getting Worse

If you are a Senior Living executive, either an Executive Director, VP of Operations, Dining Director, or Chief Financial Officer, you know your biggest challenge in 2021 is the labor crisis. Most of the statistical analysis for Senior Living has been concentrated in Assisted Living, but with our base of 500+ Independent Living facilities, we…

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Training—Made Easier

Training Staff

When the staff members in your senior living community find out they’re to be trained to use a new technology, you can almost hear the chorus of sighs and groans. After all, learning a new technology often means a steep learning curve, hours of downtime, and plenty of frustration—both for staff members and their supervisors.…

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