Image source: Yanqing Winter Olympic Village Catering Support Team
Beijing, March 21 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games have come to a successful conclusion. Recently, the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village is still a busy scene. According to Gao Xuemei, catering manager of Yanqing Winter Olympic Village, "Two months ago, when Yanqing Winter Olympic Village opened its village, heavy snow laid out the spectacular alpine skiing track in the Yanqing competition area of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which sent away members of delegations from various countries and regions in these days, and the flying snow sent another spring, and our athletes' restaurant also entered the closing period of moving out of the village. ”
During the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, as the person in charge of catering in Yanqing Winter Olympic Village, Gao Xuemei and the catering team were responsible for more than 20 work points such as athletes' restaurants, fast food restaurants, staff restaurants, tea stations in the village, and competition venue lounges, providing catering services for more than 2,100 athletes, delegation officials and more than 3,400 staff.
"Since the pre-opening of the village on January 23, Yanqing Winter Olympic Village (Winter Paralympic Village) has been running smoothly and smoothly for 53 days, and the athletes' restaurant has been running 24 hours a day, completing 1272 hours of uninterrupted meals, which is a heavy and arduous service, but also a valuable experience of condensing inheritance, breaking through limits, showing Chinese strength and realizing the dream of the Winter Olympics." Gao Xuemei said.
Catering services not only need to be served in the athletes' restaurant, but also the 2 competition venues must also provide high-quality hot meals, as well as take-away meals, quarantine meals, halal meals, kosher meals, refreshment meals, etc. Gao Xuemei said, "Catering is the focus of attention, hot spots and service difficulties of all walks of life, and there are many catering service points, long time and pressure." Adhering to the service concept of "thinking what athletes think, anxious athletes are anxious", we strive to meet the needs of athletes in all aspects to the greatest extent under the premise of ensuring safety.
During the game, athletes from all over the world punched in the Chinese Winter Olympic cuisine, bean paste buns, Beijing roast duck, Kung Pao chicken cubes, spicy hot, three fresh dumplings, etc., these Winter Olympic village delicacies quickly came out of the circle, and were hot searched and praised by delegations from all over the world. "Behind this is the sweat of countless staff day and night, the team after more than three years to produce the athlete menu, changed to the 6th edition of the menu before it was approved by the International Olympic Committee, 678 kinds of food, including food from all over the world, to meet the needs of athletes with different tastes." In the context of the Winter Olympics, behind this is also the attraction and vitality of Chinese culture. Gao Xuemei said.
Gao Xuemei said, "The athletes' restaurant is a concentrated experience place for athletes to experience 'home' life in the Olympic Village during the games. At the opening of the Winter Olympics, the catering team specially presented birthday cakes and Chinese paper cuts to the first Italian athlete who had a birthday, and during the Winter Paralympic Games, the last Danish athletes who arrived also sent red velvet cakes and flowers, which can always make the athletes feel the warmth of 'home'. ”
The athletes' restaurant has carefully prepared Braille menus, nutritional analysis, empty seat heat maps, wish posters, etc., and the menu menu is a 8-day cycle, providing paralympic athletes with liquid food blenders, barrier-free seats, and adjusting the placement of meals. These subtle links are the concentrated embodiment of the equally wonderful two Olympic Games and the full efforts to do a good job in humanized and barrier-free services.
At present, the Winter Paralympic Village has entered the emigration period. Gao Xuemei said, "From entering the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village in March 2021 to the present, spring to winter and spring, a whole year of time, although the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games have ended, overcome many difficulties under the epidemic, and inject the world with faster, higher, stronger and more united Olympic dreams, this Winter Olympic snowflake will continue to bloom in everyone's hearts." (End)