Mr Kaan - or more precisely, his Dunedin company, Kaan's Catering Supplies Ltd - is one of the many people and businesses that help keep the hospice going through charitable donations of all kinds.
They are the hospice ''good guys'', as hospice chief executive Ginny Green calls them.
For the past seven years, another ''hospice good guy'', Kevin Galliven, has been organising a yearly charity golf tournament to raise money for the hospice.
''We raise between 20 and 30 grand [each year],'' he said.
Mr Kaan first decided about a decade ago he wanted to start making some kind of donation from his family run wholesale food company.
''We decided that since we were constantly getting asked for donations ... we would pick some really good [places] to give to,'' he said.
''The hospice was something we could do locally, something that was in the area and something that went straight to the people who needed it.''
Before becoming ''hospice good guys'', neither Mr Kaan nor Mr Galliven knew much about the hospice.
''We've been fortunate enough not to have any of our close family go into the hospice,'' Mr Kaan said.
''We just knew a little bit about it - and that they were constantly struggling.''
''I decided to run [my own] and make it the best charity golf tournament ever run in Dunedin,'' he said.
He elected to give the money to the hospice after learning it ''needs all the help it can get [financially]''.
''I knew what they were about, but I didn't know that funding was as hard as it still is for them,'' he said.
''And there was a large number of people that I knew whose family member had been down there ... Everyone waxes lyrical about the service and empathy that goes on down there.''
Ms Green said Mr Kaan and Mr Galliven were two of the many people whose generosity allowed the hospice to keep its doors open.
''Community support has been the pillar of the success of the hospice,'' she said.
''The hospice needs ... our local community to support [it] as we look forward.''
