Announcing EFA’s 3rd Annual Dining Competition, a special awards program honoring the best dining spaces in senior living.
Reservations Due: May 9; Presentations Due: May 23
Food. It’s essential to our physical well-being and part of our day-to-day routine. When choosing a senior living community, the food—and, specifically, the venue options supporting it—can be a driving factor in the decision-making process.
Experience. More than just eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner, dining is an experience. It’s a time for residents to connect and enjoy one another’s company. Providing residents with a variety of options to choose from is essential, from high-end dining to casual bistros and pubs.
Design. Creating spaces for senior living dining requires thoughtful planning and collaboration. Delivering spaces that feel unique and branded offers diversity in experiences, while specifying the right materials and finishes is essential to achieving a cohesive look and feel. Meanwhile, making sure spaces have proper flow, accessibility, and effective front- and back-of-house functionality is critical.
EFA will celebrate the best dining spaces in senior living
– Projects that offer a variety of venues and choices in settings for residents, families, and staff
– Spaces that promote resident engagement and contribute to an exceptional dining experience
– Dining venues that offer a high-design aesthetic while being appropriate for the population served
– Effective space design and planning to support dining operations in both front- and back-of-house function and flow
EFA Dining Competition submission process
Architecture and design firms, senior living communities and owners/operators, food service consultants, and other key project team members involved in the design of dining spaces. Vendors are not eligible to submit.
EFA Dining Competition rules
New construction, remodel/renovation, and projects in progress (with renderings) are eligible. Projects must have been completed after January 2023, except for projects in progress. Dining spaces that have been submitted as part of a Design Showcase project or a Remodel/Renovation project are eligible, as long as they meet completion date requirements.
EFA Dining Competition costs and materials
$350 will be invoiced (in June) for each entry we receive. Fees are non-refundable once we receive your entry. Participants will be supplied with a PowerPoint template for preparing each submission. Presentations will include photos/renderings, floor plans, project narrative, responses to Q&A, and a firm contact information sheet. Images must also be supplied in high-resolution jpg, eps, or tiff format for publication.
EFA Dining Competition awards and recognition
A special EFA Dining Competition Special Supplement features a Q+A with members of the Platinum award project team, profiles of the top winning projects, and a gallery of all submitted projects to the program.
Reserve your space here.
For more information, contact Donna Hidalgo, at [email protected] or 210.419.9017
View last year’s Dining Competition Supplement here.
