DINING
Food as Social Currency
At Heritage Greens, we strive to embrace the exciting trends taking place when it comes to dining in senior living communities. Our goal is to make eating an experience rather than just a necessity and nothing else. One aspect of our unique dining experience that we’re most proud of is that our residents have a variety of venues to choose from when they’re ready to dine.
Jason Swanger Our Dining Service Director
Jason is a native of Tennessee. His stepfather was in the Navy, so he lived on both coasts of the United States growing up. His family owns and operates a restaurant in his home town, which is where he got his first taste of the hospitality industry. After his tour of duty as a food service operations specialist in the Army, Jason moved to Greensboro where he continued his education in the culinary and hospitality field at GTCC, earning an Associate degree in Culinary arts and an Associate degree in Hotel restaurant management. He has worked at prestigious establishments like Wake Forest University, UNC Chapel Hill, and UNC Greensboro. He is a certified dietary manager and certified food protection professional and an active member of The American Culinary Federation.
Ethically Sourced Food
Supporting health for you, the environment, and our community. We work with our food vendors to promote products obtained in a responsible and sustainable way, where workers involved are safe and treated fairly, and that environmental and social impacts are taken into consideration during the sourcing process. We focus on offering:
- Fair trade and sustainably farmed products from ethically sound vendors
- Organic produce with no preservatives
- Meats with no added hormones, antibiotic free, grass fed and pasture raised
- Products that support our local and regional economy
- Partners that are Rainforest Alliance certified
Grass Fed Pasture Raised Beef, Pasture Raised Chicken, Pork + Sustainable Seafood
Hickory Nut Gap Farm | Asheville, NC
Hickory Nut Gap Farm offers 100% grass fed beef that is 100% grass finished. The farm’s livestock live off the land from birth to finishing and are never supplemented with an unnatural grain. Their pork is free roaming pasture raised, and their poultry is rotated to fresh grass daily. All their livestock and meat is free of antibiotics, added hormones, synthetic casings, preservatives, food colorings, dyes, and high fructose corn syrup.
3 Fish, Inc. | Gastonia, NC
3 Fish, Inc. knows their suppliers, their fishing methods and respecting nature’s limits by selecting and promoting some of the lesser known (but equally delicious) species available. Through their sustainable sourcing practices and by partnering with the groups below*, they actively strive to ensure that the ocean remains a renewable, viable resource for generations to come.
* New England Fishery Management Council, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, MSC.org certified sustainable seafood
Local Coffee, Fresh Bread + Fresh Produce
Carolina Coffee Roasting Company | Greensboro, NC
Carolina Coffee Roasting Company offers 100% organic fairtrade coffee, small batch roasting, Rainforest Alliance certified, 100% chemical free decaf coffee, and same day delivery.
Neomonde Bread Company® | Morrisville, NC
Neomonde Bread Company® offers freshly baked bread to order, delivered within 1 day. As a family owned business operating for over 30 years founded by Lebanese immigrants, they bake top of the line baked goods including whole wheat products made to order that are consistent in quality, size and texture, and free of preservatives.
US Foods® | Charlotte, NC
One of America’s leading foodservice distributors and restaurant suppliers for a range of customers nationwide, US Foods® offers regional and local produce delivered three times per week. They also offer other locally sourced and manufactured items.