The Olympics are coming to France in 2024. Many parties are already preparing to feed the Olympians. The Sodexo group will be in charge of the Olympic food in 2024. They’ve already got some experience when it comes to large-scale sports events – take Roland-Garros or the Tour de France for example – but even for them the challenge is real.
With 15.000 athletes in the Olympic village, a team of 6.000 collaborators will have to make a grand total of 40.000 meals a day. And as if that weren’t difficult enough already, there will be no set menus: the athletes will all be able to compose their own menus day to day, choosing between 500 recipes.
All in all, 13 million dishes will be served during the Olympics and Special Olympics; 80% of the food should come from within a 250-km radius from the kitchen. That means all dairy and meat will be French, fruits and vegetables will be sourced as much as possible locally, all fish will be sustainable and so on. One of the biggest exceptions when it comes to sourcing locally are bananas: no less than 3 million of them will be ordered for the Olympics. All tropical fruits such as bananas will be certified organic.
Source: traveltomorrow.com