FOOD VISION
Throughout the Games, France will welcome the entire world to its table. During the two 15-day periods of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paris 2024 will serve over 13 million meals. From breakfast to dinner, from sandwiches to reception buffets, Paris 2024 will fulfil the needs of athletes, volunteers, spectators, and the media. And because they all will be in France, they’ll expect to eat well! In the land of gastronomy and considering the major climatic and environmental challenges in the world today, it is an operational, cultural, and environmental challenge that all the players involved in the Games are preparing to embrace. What if the Paris 2024 Games were an opportunity to discover a new way of eating in stadiums and sports events? Paris 2024 intends to use the Games as an opportunity to highlight how creative and sustainable food can be produced at a major international event, as is highlighted in its “Food Vision”.
Delivering 13 million meals
Delivering 13 million meals—the equivalent of the amount provided at 10 football World Cup tournaments—is the largest event catering operation in the world. For any organising committee, the challenge is primarily operational: to meet the needs of all Games audiences efficiently and optimally.
But because the next edition of the Games is taking place in France (the world record holder for time spent at the table) and because humanity is facing unprecedented climatic and environmental challenges that require the mobilization of all, Paris 2024 must also rise to the challenge: to enable everyone to eat well and responsibly!
Paris 2024’s ambition for the Games is to use the knowledge and creativity of French cuisine to create more responsible eating habits in stadiums and during sports events.
120 organisations mobilised to define the Food Vision of the Games
France has a rich and committed food ecosystem: farmers, chefs, artisans, restaurant owners, caterers, nutritionists, associations… all are keen to make the Games an opportunity to highlight the best that France has to offer. Therefore Paris 2024 wanted to consult them, not only to canvass their vision and expectations for these Games, but also to listen to their expertise to define ambitious but achievable and down-to-earth objectives. In total, 120 organisations and 200 athletes were involved. The result? A document intended to guide all the partners and future service providers of the Games towards a common ambition to feed the public of the Games.
Six commitments and 60 sub-commitments to move the lines
Compared to its predecessors, Paris 2024 is raising its environmental and social ambitions with quantified objectives, structured around six key commitments.