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Father-son chefs prepare meals for seniors in home

(AP) — Like many of the best business ideas, the one behind Chefs for Seniors came from the personal experience of Barrett and Nathan Allman, the company's father-son founders from Sun Prairie. Chefs for Seniors, a first-of-its-kind grocery shopping and in-home meal preparation service exclusively for senior citizens in the Madison area, will finish its first year of serving clients in August. Aimed at helping older people live longer on their own, the business started as a winning entry put together by Nathan Allman, now 21, in last year's Burrill Business Plan Competition at UW-Madison, the venerable annual contest recognizing outstanding student entrepreneurship across campus. Channeling their frustration over needed senior services into a new business endeavor — while doing something they both found enjoyable — made sense for the Allmans as a family. The huge baby boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964, are reshaping the face of housing, health, consumer and other services to an unprecedented degree — promising both outsized need and business opportunities. For a lot of older adults, the nutrition of their food, and therefore their health, declines enormously as they age, she said, either because of arthritis or some other condition that prevents them from cooking the way they used to, or from getting out to get the groceries, and, most important, because of eating alone, for some people. At a recent appointment in the home of Sharon Hanson, a Verona client, the Allmans spent more than an hour making a variety of dishes, including salmon cakes, pork tenderloin with apples and thyme, a Mediterranean-style pasta dish and pumpkin pancakes. [...] cooking a whole rotisserie chicken and dividing it up to make a stir fry, chicken salad and a pasta dish with chicken and fresh vegetables. Or using lean ground beef to make a meatloaf, meatballs with marinara sauce and a shepherd's pie. Nathan Allman's business plan for the company took fourth place in the Burrill contest, winning the pair $1,000 for start-up costs. Barrett Allman also credited his son's work on the plan for the company's success, noting he's found it "incredibly rewarding" to blend his own years of practical experience in food preparation with his son's knowledge of the latest business management trends and techniques through his education at UW-Madison.

 

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