(Beijing Winter Olympics) How does food enter the Winter Olympics table? Decoding the catering service guarantee in Zhangjiakou competition area
Chinanews.com, Zhangjiakou, February 16 (Cui Tao, Zhang Kun, Du Shuoyu, Jin Yanlong) As one of the main venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics snow sports, how to do a good job in the food security work in the Zhangjiakou competition area?
The Zhangjiakou catering security team decoded in detail how the food here entered the Winter Olympics table.
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Checking the inventory of ingredients, putting forward suggestions on storage, communicating about dishes, and inspecting restaurants... This is a portrayal of the work of the catering security staff in the Zhangjiakou competition area of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In order to present a "wonderful, safe and simple" Winter Olympics event to the world, 53 staff from Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce devoted themselves to ensuring the catering service for the Winter Olympics.
According to reports, in accordance with the principle of "three competition areas, one standard", since 2017, Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce has completed five rounds of consultation, suggestions, revisions and improvements in accordance with the catering service guarantee plan and catering service policy, and finally completed the Zhangjiakou competition area 1+5 Plans for catering security, warehousing, logistics and distribution, etc., guide the venue group catering service providers to formulate 34 plans for kitchen administration, operations, and warehousing.
Faced with the supply of catering raw materials concerned by all parties, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce has organized venue service providers to sign purchase agreements with 34 alternative supply bases based on the 437 kinds of ingredients decomposed by the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. 437 kinds of 1,503 tons; instruct contracted hotels and resident hotels to purchase ingredients in accordance with policies, and connect with 141 contracted ingredient suppliers. The demand for ingredients in 9 categories and 426 kinds is about 2,988 tons.
The picture shows the dining scene in the big family lounge at the Awards Plaza.
Photo courtesy of Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
In order to ensure the safety of the supply of catering materials for the Winter Olympics, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce also led the establishment of the Warehousing and Logistics Headquarters in the Zhangjiakou Division of the Winter Olympics catering raw materials, urging and guiding the Olympic Logistics Center, Jiajiayue Front Turnover Warehouse, and Agricultural Investment Central Kitchen to complete the construction and put into operation. .
A warehousing and logistics management system has been established, an online procurement intelligence platform has been established, and catering service providers, contracted hotels and resident hotels have been organized and guided to purchase through the platform to ensure that ingredients and raw materials can be traced throughout the process.
Up to now, various catering service providers have purchased a total of 6,233.4 tons of ingredients (including inventory), and delivered a total of 1,056 vehicles.
In response to the shortage of catering raw materials that may be caused by bad weather during the game, as well as the shortage of kitchen administrators and service personnel caused by various reasons, the bureau has also comprehensively considered, formulated corresponding emergency plans, and took the lead in making emergency reserves of catering raw materials. With the construction of emergency kitchen management support team, a total of more than 1,100 tons of emergency food ingredients have been stored, and a professional emergency kitchen management team of 439 people has been formed.
The catering service guarantee team of Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce actively coordinated with catering service providers to ensure daily catering, while creating a Spring Festival atmosphere.
Photo courtesy of Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
Warm up with food
When the Winter Olympics meets the Spring Festival, the catering service guarantee team of Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce actively coordinates the daily catering guarantee with catering service providers, and at the same time changes the pattern to create a Spring Festival atmosphere and convey a different kind of love and warmth.
In the Winter Olympics venues, the bright red lanterns, Chinese knots, couplets and handmade face carvings with traditional techniques made the staff in the venues feel the strong taste of the New Year.
On New Year's Eve, the catering service providers of the Mountain News Center, Genting Ski Park and other venues prepared the venue, prepared the noodles, and adjusted the filling, so that the security personnel who were not on duty that day could eat the dumplings made by themselves; the award plaza and the uniform registration branch center The catering service provider prepared the steamed buns, so that the security staff could taste the characteristic folk food and feel the care and warmth of home.
Dumplings, a traditional Chinese food, are also favored by foreign guests.
On February 8, an international technical officer suggested that he wanted to eat dumplings. The catering team immediately prepared an induction cooker and a pot, and cooked dumplings for the international technical officer during dinner, which was praised repeatedly by the other party.
The venue service provider of Genting Ski Park provides Lantern Festival for foreign media reporters in the media lounge.
Photo courtesy of Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
After the start of the competition, considering that some security personnel could not return to the hotel for meals according to the meal time due to work arrangements, the catering service guarantee team of Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce actively coordinated with the relevant hotels to extend the meal time and staggered meal times. Meals for special task groups.
In order to allow staff who have birthdays during the Winter Olympics to have a special birthday, the staff of Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce keep abreast of the birthday information of security staff, and coordinate with catering service providers to provide birthday special meals such as birthday noodles and cakes.
Up to now, the Zhangjiakou competition area has celebrated the birthdays of more than 210 people including contracted hotels, resident hotels, venue security personnel and foreign guests.
The Food and Beverage Support Team of the Mountain News Center celebrates the birthday of the staff.
Photo courtesy of Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
Considering that some personnel have already settled in early January and will serve until the end of the Beijing Winter Paralympics, the catering service guarantee team of Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Commerce organized and carried out a questionnaire survey on special dishes, and collected 1098 valid questionnaires, and based on this, the catering service team cooperated with the catering industry. The server prepares a menu of specialties.
The most popular specialties such as sheep scorpions, boiled meat slices and boiled fish, the most desirable coarse grains such as steamed corn, steamed sweet potatoes, and steamed yam, as well as local specialties such as noodle and braised noodles, have become a beautiful scenery in the Olympic table. .
praised by overseas VIPs
Since the personnel fully entered the closed loop on January 21, Zhangjiakou competition area has opened 25 resident hotels, 8 competition and non-competition venues, and 19 contracted hotels. The catering guarantee has exceeded 1 million meals, and the maximum daily guarantee has exceeded 60,000. The catering guarantee for the Winter Olympics has been running smoothly and orderly, and has been recognized and praised by many parties.
On January 21st, the catering team at the platform sent a sumptuous and warm meal to the staff in the concierge and transportation fields who could not dine in the restaurant outside the ring, and received a letter of thanks from the staff in the concierge area of the platform.
The service providers of the Genting Stadium, the catering service providers and staff of the ancient poplar stadium group have successively received letters of commendation and thanks from volunteers, traffic support staff, security personnel and other groups.
The picture shows reporters from various countries praising the catering service of the Mountain News Center.
Photo courtesy of Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
In addition, some overseas VIPs also highly praised the catering service guarantee work in the Zhangjiakou competition area.
On February 8, Prince Albert II of Monaco spoke highly of the delicious food and thoughtful service of the catering team at the Zhangjiakou Awards Plaza.
On February 11, Vice President of the International Olympic Committee Samaranch said in a message: Thank you to the big family catering service team at the cross-country skiing venue!
You've done a great job, thank you so much!
On February 12, FIS President John Eliasch expressed his gratitude to the Olympic family and the FIS Lounge for their catering services.
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