WASTE MANAGEMENT was one of the areas in which the London 2012 Games performed better than any other Olympics. The food was pretty good too. Thats according to an in-depth review looking at whether the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games truly delivered the promised levels [...]
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WITH MASSIVE sponsorship from fast food companies and a veil of secrecy covering alternative catering, London 2012 was quickly titled the junk food Olympics. But was that an accurate moniker, and could it actually have a positive outcome? Long billed as the largest peacetime catering [...]
WITH THE Olympics in full swing, Red Tractor Assured farmers almost two weeks in to their challenge of feeding around 23,900 athletes and team officials, 20,600 broadcasters and press and over 9 million visitors. Following LOCOG’s decision to make Red Tractor [...]
JUNK FOOD brands should be excluded from sponsoring sporting events, according to the Childrens Food Campaign. London 2012 sponsors attacked in new report In a hard-hitting new report, the campaigning group claims that the power of corporate sponsors like McDonalds and Coca-Cola has [...]
The Olympic Games in London 2012 may not meet its sustainability goals unless sponsors start taking on some of the burden. According to reports in the Financial Times, the head of the organising committee, David Stubbs, said of the targets: We know we cant do this on our own. The London 2012 Games has been [...]
However innovative disposables manufacturers are in producing bio-degradable and recyclable solutions for packaging, they cannot control whether the consumer uses the appropriate waste stream if, indeed, said waste stream exists. John Young, Foodservice Sales & Marketing Director of food packaging and disposables giant Huhtamaki, talks to Kathy Bowry about the problems faced. There seems to [...]
The UK Games legacy
By footprint on December 3, 2012
Published in: Comment, Foodservice News and tagged Aramark, BaxterStorey, Commonwealth Games 2014, De VEre Academy of Hospitality, Food Vision, Gleneagles, James Whithers, Jobcentre Plus, John Bennett, LOCOG, London 2012, Ryder Cup, Scotland Food & Drink.
…AS THE hard work on one huge food operation finishes, another is already under way. BaxterStorey’s John Bennett looks back at the 2012 Olympics… At the start of 2011, BaxterStorey secured a contract to deliver catering at the main media centre for the London 2012 Olympic [...]