On Friday, July 12th, the Olympic Village restaurant will open in the Seine-Saint-Denis on the outskirts of Paris. His nearly 15,000 competitors from around the world will dine there during the 2024 Paris Olympics (July 26 to August 11) and Paralympics (August 28 to September 8). Masu. Service provider Sodexo Live! describes it as “the world’s largest restaurant.”
The 3,500-seat restaurant, which will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the event, will be designed to meet the high expectations of competitors, keeping nutrition in mind as a key to success in the sport. A nutritionist will be on hand to answer any questions you may have. It took him nearly three years of systematic effort to accommodate each discipline’s preferences, dietary habits, and energy requirements before gaining approval from the International Olympic Committee.
In the end, 500 recipes were completed, but neither fries nor hamburgers appeared on the menu. But Paris 2024 catering manager Philipp Wurz says that at his benchmark London 2012 Games, athletes were able to order them. It should be noted that McDonald’s was a sponsor…but the American fast food chain’s partnership with the Olympics, which began in Montreal in 1976, ended early in 2018.
One third comes from plants
But Coca-Cola, which has been in business for almost a century, is still in the competition. The ubiquitous soda is served to athletes at restaurants through fountains that dispense more than a half-dozen varieties of the Atlanta-based company’s products. Coca-Cola, Coca Zero, Fuse Tea and Tropico, as well as Chauxfontaine Water (available in still and sparkling versions), flow freely.
Other sponsors participating in the catering include Danone, which provides dairy products such as the Hipro range of high-protein yoghurts. Carrefour will supply the venue with fresh produce, prioritizing locally produced products. Athletes will find salad bars and fruit stands, cheese and dairy stands, desserts, soups, grills, pizza, daily specials and pasta, bakeries and hot buffets. This organization is organized based on four geographical areas of world cuisine: France, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and satisfies every palate. A third of what is served will be vegetable-based.
Outside the restaurant, in partnership with Sodexo Live!, the athlete foodie will have a tasting area featuring three partner chefs: Acrame Bénaral, Amandine Chégnot and Alexandre Mazzia. Chefs Charles Guilloy and Stéphane Cichelli will take turns presenting their dishes in a showcase of French gastronomy.
