Smarter Tools. Stronger Compliance. Real Results.
Senior living dining teams are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, maintain compliance, and stay survey-ready – while still delivering personalized, high-quality dining experiences.
This spring, we’re introducing a new set of enhancements designed specifically for long-term care and senior living communities. From faster recipe management to real-time dashboards and survey-ready workflows, these updates help reduce manual work while supporting better outcomes.
Smarter Recipe Management for Senior Living Dining Teams
RecipeCapture – Now Available!
RecipeCapture allows dining teams to upload recipes directly into DiningManager using PDFs, JPGs, or PNG files – eliminating the need for manual entry.
Whether it’s a resident’s favorite family recipe or a new dish from your culinary team, recipes can be added in minutes – helping keep menus fresh, personalized, and engaging.
By simplifying recipe entry, teams can save time while maintaining consistency and accuracy across menus.
See it in action
Coming Soon: SmartDiet Spreading
SmartDiet helps accelerate the process of applying texture-modified diet parameters across recipes – reducing manual effort while improving consistency.
This AI-supported tool is designed to support efficiency, not replace clinical judgment. Dietitians maintain full oversight, reviewing and making final edits to ensure safety, accuracy, and compliance.
The result: faster workflows while maintaining the highest standards of care.
Faster Recipe Editing
Keeping recipes up to date is critical for both compliance and resident satisfaction.
Advanced recipes users can now:
- • Edit recipe names, descriptions, and photos instantly
- • Update sub-recipes like toppings and condiments for TableSide without duplication
These enhancements reduce unnecessary steps and help ensure recipes remain accurate, standardized, and survey-ready.
Approve My Menu Enhancements
Approve My Menu helps ensure menus are compliant, consistent, and survey-ready by identifying risks, supporting diet standards, and providing an always-on dietitian signature.
We’re continuing to enhance the experience to make menu review more efficient and intuitive – including improvements that make it easier to identify alternate options within “Show Selections.”
Real-Time Dashboards & Insights in DiningHub
DiningHub now includes real-time dashboards for MealCard and TableSide, giving teams greater visibility into their operations.
These dashboards allow leaders to:
- • Monitor food and menu costs
- • Track compliance
- • Analyze recipe usage
- • Evaluate operational trends and ROI
With real-time data, teams can make more informed decisions, improve efficiency, and demonstrate measurable outcomes.
A Fresh, More Efficient User Experience
We’re rolling out an updated experience for all users across the platform – starting with a redesigned homepage built to simplify daily workflows.
The new homepage allows users to:
- • Set a default menu for faster access
- • Instantly print menus, diet spreadsheets, production sheets, and MealCards (by day or week)
- • View key updates like admissions and diet changes
- • Access announcements, resources, and support in one place
These improvements are designed to reduce time spent navigating the system and help teams stay organized, informed, and ready for daily operations.
Watch this quick video to learn more about setting a default menu, or join one of our PlateFul trainings to learn more.
Support When You Need It
Our team is here to help you get the most out of these new features.
📧 support@diningrd.com
📞 800-544-3059
Continuing to Advance Dietitian Intelligence
These updates are part of our ongoing commitment to bringing together people + technology to create simple solutions for senior dining success.
By combining dietitian expertise with smarter tools, we help communities move from reactive processes to a more proactive, systemized, and survey-ready approach to dining operations.
More innovations are on the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
RecipeCapture allows dining teams to quickly add recipes into their menu system using files like PDFs or images, reducing manual data entry and improving efficiency.
Tools like Approve My Menu, SmartDiet, and RecipeCapture are designed to support compliance by identifying potential risks, standardizing recipes, and streamlining workflows.
AI-supported features help reduce repetitive tasks, while dietitians maintain full oversight -ensuring menus are safe, accurate, and aligned with clinical standards.
Being survey-ready means having accurate menus, documentation, and processes that meet regulatory expectations – and can be easily accessed during inspections.
With the right technology and dietitian support, teams can maintain this readiness every day- not just when a survey is approaching.
Tracking food costs, diet compliance, recipe usage, and resident trends helps dining leaders improve efficiency, reduce risk, and make more informed decisions.
With DiningRD, these insights are built into daily workflows – helping teams demonstrate ROI while supporting safety, compliance, and consistent survey readiness.