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# Restaurant Partnerships

Partnering with local restaurants can enhance your meal program by providing participants with more choice and flexibility, appealing to a new generation of seniors with diverse tastes and backgrounds. Review guidance examples and considerations for working with restaurants and examples of successful partnerships.

## Quick Guides

                    - 20 Years & Counting: Connecticut Senior Dine Program’s Flexibility and Choice  — Restaurant partnership uses tech to check in
                    - Go and Dine  — New York café for takeout meals and vouchers
                    - Meals on Wheels People, Inc.’s “The Diner” and Its Social Distancing Pivot  —“Social enterprise” restaurant site

## Guides

                    - Iowa Cafe Guide for Partners  — Example restaurant partnership guide designed to help foodservice establishments partner with AAAs
                    - Guide to Working with Restaurants and Grocery Stores for Meals during COVID-19  — Guidance in partnering with food retailers to maintain competitiveness, provide high quality meals, and offer increased meal choice
                    - Senior Nutrition Programs Seeking to Work with Food Retailers  — Partner with restaurants and grocery stores

##   Fact Sheets

                    - Quick Guide to Working with Restaurants and Grocery Stores  — Five step infographic

##    Tools & Toolkits

                    - Senior Nutrition Programs: Restaurant Program Toolkit  — Key features of restaurant programs, how to create them, and promising practices for implementation and sustainability in one kit from the Nutrition and Aging Resource Center

##  Presentations

                    - Mapping Your Partnership Assets  — Meals of Love restaurant partnership in Florida
                    - Senior Dine — Meeting the Meal Needs of Seniors — Restaurant partnership meal site with swipe cards (video)
                    - Senior Lunch Bunch: A New Model for Group Dining  — Restaurant partnership in South Carolina

## In the News

                    - More than a Meal: Restaurant-based Programs Feed Seniors' Social Lives — AP U.S. News video on restaurant-based meals for aging Americans                       - More than a Meal article 

*Last modified on 10/10/2023*

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