Baltimore County has 212,000 senior citizens. Olszewski doesn’t want them eating alone.

As the county executive, Johnny Olszewski is used to running things. But, when Baltimore County’s top official walked into the kitchen at Bykota Senior Center, he knew to let the assembly line of paper plates and diced carrots proceed without his signature. “I do not want to complicate what is already a well-oiled machine,” Olszewski said as he and his communications director, Erica Palmisano, wheeled a silver cart of chicken-and-gravy lunches to an adoring crowd this week for No Senior Eats Alone Day.