Food Service: Riderwood Village
3110 Gracefield Rd
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Duration: February 4, 2014 -- March 14, 2014 (6 weeks)
Mission: "To change the way Americans view aging by consistently offering services and resources that make growing older something to look forward to."
Riderwood is one of several retirement communities managed by Erickson Living. This particular location is one of the most popular in the Washington D.C. area with almost 3,000 residents. During our rotation, we worked directly with the kitchen staff of Windsor restaurant.
Among the projects we completed include:
Riderwood Village Work Samples
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Duration: February 4, 2014 -- March 14, 2014 (6 weeks)
Mission: "To change the way Americans view aging by consistently offering services and resources that make growing older something to look forward to."
Riderwood is one of several retirement communities managed by Erickson Living. This particular location is one of the most popular in the Washington D.C. area with almost 3,000 residents. During our rotation, we worked directly with the kitchen staff of Windsor restaurant.
Among the projects we completed include:
- Designed, planned, and executed a Korean BBQ Theme Meal lunch for 170+ residents
- Marketed and promoted the theme meal by designing visually appealing flyers, posters as well as wrote and starred in a television commercial
- Conducted two SWOT analyses
- Completed a financial project on lunch-carry out options for a four-week cycle
- Conducted and analyzing a sustainability survey regarding the recycling of old batteries
- Performed an "Operation Pride" kitchen inspection for Windsor restaurant
- Developed and presenting an in-service education to kitchen and dining staff on the effects of sodium and older adults
- Learned and developed new culinary skills such as chopping/mincing/slicing produce, performing a meat yield, grilling large quantities of meats, using commercial kitchen equipment and much more
Riderwood Village Work Samples