Link-age is pleased to announce that Mike Randolph has joined Link-age Solutions as Director of Dining Solutions. Mike has been an integral part of the Link-age Dining council while acting as the Food Service Director at Brethren Retirement Community for the last 16 year and helped other members of Link-age with food service operations as a liaison for Link-age. In this new role, Mike will work with the team at Link-age Solutions to oversee the dining solutions program. Mike was hired to fill the position ahead of the retirement of Jim Norris.<\/p>\n
Learn more about Mike in this Q&A.<\/p>\n
Q: You bring an impressive track record of experience to Link-age Solutions. How did those experiences prepare you for this new role?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have been a part of the solutions Link-age brought to its members in my role on the Dining Council and as operations liaison, and I have a unique background of food service management. Years of making product decisions have been helpful.<\/p>\n Q: What are some opportunities you see for Link-age and Link-age members in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n The biggest opportunities I see are in continued support for best practice in food item selection. In addition, I\u2019ll be able to help with day-to-day operations since I have over thirty years of long-term care food service experience, working alongside Link-age during the the previous sixteen of those.<\/p>\n Q: What motivates you to want to be successful in keeping senior living organizations supplied, informed, and positioned for success?<\/strong><\/p>\n Simply put, it is my passion for elder care. I\u2019m going from doing that at a ground level to a broader scope and, therefore, will now be able to help more elders get quality food at an affordable price by best utilizing the dollars they spend<\/p>\n Q: How do you see technology impacting the dining solutions program in the coming years?<\/strong><\/p>\n Technology is a vital part of Link-age Solutions. During the coming years, a goal of mine would be to better utilize the most recent data available to provide greater options for our members.<\/p>\n Q: What are some of your goals for this new role with Link-age?<\/strong><\/p>\n To meet everyone in involved in our member dining programs in some way over the next year, and to continue to bring value and quality to the Link-age dining program through our vendors, manufacturers and distributors.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Mike can be reached at mrandolph@linkageconnect.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Link-age is pleased to announce that Mike Randolph has joined Link-age Solutions as Director of Dining Solutions. Mike has been an integral part of the Link-age Dining council while acting as the Food Service Director at Brethren Retirement Community for the last 16 year and helped other members of Link-age with food service operations as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n