{"id":514,"date":"2024-12-01T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:14:47","slug":"king-dining-tip-daily-thoughtfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/king-dining-tip-daily-thoughtfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind Dining Tip: Daily Thoughtfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kind-dining.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kind-dining.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kind-dining-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/kind-dining-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is thoughtfulness part of your serving staff\u2019s daily routine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making residents feel at home is the best possible bit of thoughtfulness your team can offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving a friendly greeting and a few words of welcome when a resident arrives in the dining room is a small kindness that has huge and happy results. It is also important to extend that friendliness when meeting residents in the hallways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn names and use them as often as possible. It helps people feel they belong when they hear their name spoken. Sharing a word or a pleasant greeting invites a person to respond kindly and increases their sense of security. It is the beginning of a conversation, and leads to a feeling of ease, comfort, and familiarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kind Dining\u00ae training helps staff to gain confidence and reduce burn-out by learning new skills and seeing value in what they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be \u2665 Kind Tip: Your staff can help create the feeling of home for new residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is thoughtfulness part of your serving staff\u2019s daily routine? Making residents feel at home is the best possible bit of thoughtfulness your team can offer. Giving a friendly greeting and a few words of welcome when a resident arrives in the dining room is a small kindness that has huge and happy results. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningrd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}