Case Study: Bickford Senior Living cuts food costs and waste with Aline Menus by Grove

Bickford Senior Living standardizes dining across 55 communities with Aline

Bickford Senior Living, a family-owned operator of more than 50 senior care communities, faced challenges with inconsistent menus, manual food forecasting, and rising costs. This variability made it difficult to control food waste and manage budgets. High staff turnover further exacerbated the problem, as valuable operational knowledge was frequently lost. To address these issues, they partnered with vendor Aline to implement Aline Menus by Grove and Aline Point-of-Sale.

The solution from Aline centralized menu planning and integrated it with real-time point-of-sale data. This provided a unified process for forecasting and ordering, which eliminated manual counts and reduced errors. For Bickford, this resulted in controlled food costs, less waste, stronger compliance, and a more consistent, resident-focused dining experience across all of their communities.

Bickford Senior Living