May We Introduce Ourselves
Greater Purpose That Drives Us
Greater Purpose: We are leaders who teach. With food as our medium, our greater purpose is to enhance lives by:
- Nourishing human connections to personal health, nature and each other;
- Offering guests and team members direct access to life-improving opportunities;
- Helping our clients grow in mission by serving as their trusted strategic advisor and partner.
Mission: We provide life- and relationship-enhancing dining experiences for those who live and work in the region’s most respected senior living communities and healthcare institutions. Through the simple joy of sharing a meal, we help friends enjoy friends and foster a true sense of belonging and community.
Vision: We aim to impact society in a profoundly positive way through innovative dining services that nourish the holistic health of our guests, team members, communities, and the environment. By helping friends enjoy friends, we create dining experiences that enrich relationships, inspire well-being, and strengthen community life.
Our Approach: We stand for transparency, integrity, and authenticity. From pricing to sourcing to communication, we believe in doing things openly and honestly. By using locally sourced ingredients and crafting joyful, customized menus, we nourish both the body and the spirit.
Beyond culinary creativity, we act as partners in providing leadership and guidance that help our clients attract and retain the best hospitality talent in senior living. Every meal, every interaction, and every relationship is an opportunity to help friends enjoy friends and strengthen community life.
Boutique & Owner-Operated: Culinesse is intentionally smaller and owner-operated, allowing for hands-on leadership and direct involvement in every aspect of your dining program. With our co-founders engaged in daily operations, every decision is purposeful, every experience is tailored, and every meal makes an emotional impact your residents can feel.
This is dining with purpose where hospitality builds connection, and every table becomes a place of belonging.
Hospitality Network That We Share
At Culinesse, we are a boutique hospitality provider who practices capitalism with a focus on improving social outcomes while sharing our network with clients, residents and team members.
We are about working to make a fair profit with an ideology of the pursuit of well-being for all people. We will:
- Partner with and invest in non-profit organizations, such as Rodale Institute and state-level Associations of Sustainable Agriculture to solve social and environmental issues.
- Actively seek out and purchase products from companies who are socially and environmentally ethical.
- Value people by creating a positive empowering culture that allows people to be engaged, happy and able to reach their full potential.
- Pursue long-term goals that support investment, growth and sustainable prosperity for everyone.
- Offer unique travel and entertainment opportunities to clients, residents and team members through Settlers Hospitality Group properties, Select Registry and Historic Hotels of America.
We are excited to share our hospitality, foodservice and industry connections with our clients, communities and residents to bring health and happiness to them while at home or traveling in our region or beyond. Together we make life better — and happier!
Core Values That Guide Us
Leadership With A Social Impact
At Culinesse, our founders are foodservice management industry veterans who feel responsible to nourish the growth, health and happiness of all whose lives we touch. We make it easier for guests to choose “healthy food first”, for team members to “live up to their talent”, and for our chefs, nutritionists, and managers to focus on uplifting residents and hourly team members.
To have social impact, we:
- Work closely with our clients to continually improve operating efficiency to generate savings that we can share with hourly team members to improve their quality of life and that of their families;
- Provide our team members with free online and community college courses along with on-the-job apprenticeships to enhance their skills and take-home pay;
- Support our clients’ fundraising efforts to help generate resources to serve residents who have outlived their financial resources but not their human need for love, respect, and dignity;
- Value all people by creating positive empowering cultures and services that allow our residents and team members to be engaged, happy, and able to reach their full potential;
- Create purposeful jobs, support pay equity, offer fair paid leave, establish work schedules that work, invest in team member training, and promote from within;
- Replace short-term goals that result in exploitation with long-term goals that support investment, growth, and sustainable prosperity in our and our clients’ communities.
We believe that to build a legacy of positive social impact, we must “think, say, and do”. In partnership with clients of similar mind, we will use products, practices, and profits to benefit all and prepare a better place for future generations.
How We Serve Life Plan Communities
At Culinesse, we believe in providing food that nourishes and improves the health and happiness of our guests. In fact, we aim to have a social impact that goes far beyond the typical fare offered to those who have retired; we see ourselves as a boutique hospital brand that elevates senior living.
Take a look at three main ways we go above and beyond to serve residents of life plan communities.
Serving You
If you would like to learn more about how we can help with your dining and guest needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We would be happy to tell you more about how our company helps those throughout PA, MD, DE, NJ, VA, NC and SC with their food service needs.
