communal dining facility

A public or nonprofit private establishment approved by FNS that prepares and serves meals for elderly individuals or for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients and their spouses. It also includes senior citizens centers, apartment buildings occupied primarily by elderly individuals or SSI recipients and their spouses, public or private nonprofit establishments (eating or otherwise) that feed elderly individuals or SSI recipients and their spouses, and federally subsidized residents. It also includes private establishments that contract with the state to offer meals at concessional prices to elderly or SSI recipients and their spouses.