【Commentary】Recently, a community canteen in Shanghai ushered in the opening, compared with the traditional community canteen for the elderly, this newly opened community canteen is open to the public. In addition, the canteen also provides a series of services such as home delivery and afternoon tea, and also implements corresponding dining discounts according to the elderly of different ages, which has been praised by nearby residents.

【Commentary】Hongqiao Yayuan Community Canteen is located in Huacao Town, Minhang District, Shanghai, and most of the local residents are returning elderly. In response to this situation, the canteen has set up a special price area, a low-salt, low-sugar and low-fat area, and has also formulated tiered dining discounts for the elderly of different ages, with 60% discount for 74 to 9 years old, and 75.8% discount for 5 years old and above. After <> o'clock in the afternoon, many elderly people have come to the community canteen to eat.

【Contemporaneous】Resident Aunt Qian

The taste is okay. Now my hand is also injured, I eat here every day for lunch, and I have no one to cook when the children are at work. (Community canteens) are affordable, convenient and affordable.

【Commentary】It is understood that the community canteen has made a series of designs on hardware. There is an age-appropriate ramp at the entrance of the canteen, and the inner hall is about 250 square meters, with 56 age-appropriate chairs inside, and 2 additional love seats for the elderly with reduced mobility. In addition to dine-in, take-out and difficult "door-to-door" services are also provided to solve the problem of "difficulty in eating" for the elderly with difficulties. The reporter found that there is also a nutritional analysis machine in the corner of the restaurant, and the staff introduced that through the equipment, the intake of each meal of the elderly can be recorded and analyzed synchronously, so that they can pay attention to their own diet structure and better adjust their diet.

【During the same period】Yao Jieshun, IT director of Hongqiao Yayuan Community Canteen Operation Company

At the beginning, if you go in, the elderly can just enter their height, age, weight, and you can get the value of how many calories I can eat per day, and then a nutritional ratio per day. For example, how many calories I ate in a bowl of wontons for breakfast have a clear record on it.

【Explanation】The person in charge of the community canteen introduced that at present, the number of people who eat in the canteen every day is about 180, of which the elderly group accounts for about 50%. Community canteens focus on low prices and affordability, and many community canteens around the world have lost money to exit, for which the canteen chooses the "no refusal" business plan, and also launches afternoon tea to provide activity places for the elderly, etc., in order to ensure the continuous operation of the canteen, bringing benefits to nearby residents.

【During the same period】Lu Xiaofeng, head of Hongqiao Yayuan Community Canteen Operation Company

Providing services for the elderly is our core service, so in this process we found a phenomenon, the elderly dining group dining time is relatively early. Then after 11:<>, other groups in the surrounding area, such as co-workers, sanitation workers, including other groups of residents in the surrounding area, can come in and eat, but it may not be discounted to them in our entire canteen. Then we also make up some of the differences in our operations through the meals of other people, and then the company can continue to develop at its own bottom line.

Reporting by Zhou Sunyu from Shanghai

Responsible Editor: [Peng Dawei]