“Fuel for NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins” received the front page of the TRIB’s Lifestyle section.  Read more on how nutritious menus are created for the team with natural ingredients that build strength, sustain energy and overall enhance Penguins top-notch performance on the ice at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry Township, PA.

Promoted and facilitated for Cura Hospitality at Presbyterian Senior Living (PSL) Westminster Woods at Huntingdon in PA!  Their culinary team received the 2022 Food Management Magazine’s Best Customer Service Concept – westwoodsdining.com. – online order app!   Food Management’s Best Concept Awards program is designed to recognize innovative and creative initiatives undertaken by onsite dining operations in the markets it covers, including K-12 schools, colleges, healthcare, and senior living facilities, business/industry locations, and sports/entertainment venues.  Read more here!

Aladdin Campus Dining’s Fairmont State University talks to UB on cashless markets and flex hours to help keep students on campus.  Dining is always looking for ways to increase foot traffic and revenues.

Working with NFL Communications was exciting in promoting this Pittsburgh Steelers chef, who was responsible for mid-season meals for players, staff and coaches!

Grace worked with dining managers and students to promote the successful transition of meal delivery to senior living residents and hospital patients during COVID-19.  In this community, over 1,000 meals are delivered to apartments daily by dining team members, including student workers who are sending messages, providing hope, smiles, and love!

Grace promotes what’s trending on the k-12 campuses.  Post-covid, food service operators are streamlining back of the house and investing in equipment that creates safer food handling, more menu variety, and meets volume demands with less labor!  Read more here.

Grace Zarnas-Hoyer, public relations for Cura, which runs the restaurant, called Fresh Harvest “a very cool space, with a new menu and trendy culinary demonstrations.” Zarnas-Hoyer said Fresh Harvest is an example of what she called “the trend in senior living” – moving from traditional cafeteria-style dining toward bistro-like restaurants where guests can enjoy, in her words, “a food experience.”​

Selected as a 2021 story of the year – at Allegheny Health Network’s Wexford Hospital, the dining team is doing lots of nice things for new parents, including take-home meal boxes and special in-room meals.

Sherwood Oaks, a 400-residential community received extensive media attention, including local television coverage for a large-scale farmer’s market featuring fresh produce from local farms and food partners. Residents enjoy live cooking demonstrations and baked goods that are prepared fresh onsite!

Murals are now a feather in the cap for G.C. Zarnas whose painters decorated three gas tanks which hold 12,000 gallons of chilled natural gas, along I-95/I-395 at Baltimore MD’s southern gateway. Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) announced plans to dress up its prominent tank farm with the art project, which also marked the company’s 200th birthday!  According to Lee Zarnas, Vice President for G.C. Zarnas & Co., “BGE contracted us to paint the exterior and also perform tank lining work.”  The industrial side of the project consists of power washing, then painting base layers.  “Because of our expertise in stenciling designs, we were also selected to brush paint the murals including blue crabs, racehorses, and fireworks bursting on the city skyline.”    Watch the news segment on CBS Baltimore! Watch Tank time-lapse paint production here:

Quality food and varied dining venues are always top priorities, but they are no longer enough. Grace promotes the new norm of retirement living which requires flexible dining options that align with the varied lifestyles of today’s residents.

With over 500 competitive swimmers, swim lesson students and triathletes, Emmaus Aquatic Club (EMAC) officially announced the opportunity for its membership to swim year-round at its existing outdoor pool — a first time in history that a Lehigh Valley team will own and control their own pool time! During a press conference details were shared on the ClearSpan structure that will cover the pool and ways to get active with the Pave the Way Brick Fundraising Campaign!

This piece focused on wellness as an integral part of your senior living dining plan. Grace routinely contributes articles to senior living publications to promote her senior living and healthcare clientele.

Masks have become as commonplace as having a cell phone! So, why not personalize or have a mask created that is reflective of you! That’s what Shelia Shepherd, a full-time cook for St. Clair Hospital in Pittsburgh has been “stitching” in her spare time! Sheila, who is from Castle Shannon, PA, is donating her time by sewing hundreds of one-of-a-kind masks with materials of her customers’ choice. 

Culture change continues to inspire today’s leaders to transform the way older adults live in long term care communities. Homestead Village, a non-profit retirement community in the heart of Lancaster, Pa., is in its fourth year of the culture change journey.

Learn from G.C. Zarnas & Co., Commercial Painting Division, on how their specialty coatings services enhance safety, wellness and profitability for property owners and project managers. Read more here.

Tel Hai selects a dining partner that meets its therapeutic and clinical parameters with innovative meal programs.  Read more on page 11!

School may be out for summer, but it’s back to school for commercial painting contractors!  According to Grace Zarnas-Hoyer, marketing for G.C. Zarnas & Co., Inc., school projects ramps up in the summer, keeping painters extremely busy with everything from maintenance painting to new construction.  Now’s the time to conduct your interior and exterior maintenance painting projects.  Partner with a contractor who provides solutions to protect your investments!  Read more here.

By reducing the use of processed food and replacing with real food, we are able to help decrease the cost of medical visits, copays, prescription medications and other health services. Grace covers how Cura combines its culinary expertise with scratch cooking which creates a healthier dining experience for residents and patients!

As comprehensive healthcare reforms create significant challenges in healthcare delivery, hospital administrators rely more heavily on the expertise of its food service providers to deliver the highest patient satisfaction ratings!  

The trend for food knowledge just keeps growing and has many older adults viewing food as a source of entertainment, comfort and camaraderie.  In “Activity Matters” Grace covers a taste of the competition in this Iron Chef America spinoff!  

With creative attention, research, and testing, Cura operators developed Connections.  This memory support dining program is designed specifically for use in
the hospitality setting.  Read more on how Connections stimulates memories for residents with Alzheimer’s during mealtime.

When it comes to the swimming world, Alexa Kutch, says it best. “The friendships, socialization and camaraderie are what the sport is all about.” Now headed to the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska for the June 4th meet where she will compete in the 100 backstroke, Alexa reflects on her swim career and the time spent training for this opportunity of a lifetime—challenging at times due to COVID. But in the end, this Easton, PA native is ready to set her mark!

Grace produced this 20-page Light Up Limeport Commemorative Program. She acted as the copy editor and provided consultation on layout and design. Light Up Limeport is a fundraiser for organizations that support pediatric cancer. More than $40,000 in event proceeds were donated to Sassy Massey Smiles, Adopt a Pig and Angel 34 non-profit organizations.