Olympic Moving Day

Sorry I missed the post yesterday but we went through some crazy routines moving out of our condo and into the Athlete's village. Our kitchen staff moved off the cruise ship and into the village in some pretty nice Atco trailers with only 2 to a room with a washroom for 2 people instead of 4 on the ship. The food service managers moved into the athlete condo's and somehow I manged to get a room to myself while everyone else is sharing ( we'll keep that our little secret from Michael Smith who's sharing with Chef Stephen Lee, Ha).

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Round 2, Paralympics

As we wind down with athlete feeding today now that the Olympics are over, our workforce #'s will increase on Thursday because all the staff living on the cruise ship will move into the village and we'll be feeding upwards of 2000 per  meal. Just when we thought we had a couple days to relax before the Paralympic Athletes start coming into the village, we ramp up again. I'll keep you posted on our feeding plan to serve fresh products for the masses.

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On to the 2010 Paralympics!

As we recoup from the main event, we now set our goals & efforts on the Paralympics Games. Now that all the kinks & hurdles have been smoothed out, we anticipate being able to provide immeasurable quality of food and service to our Paralympian Athletes.

Our final numbers from the Olympics was nearly 132,000 meals served, and 394 skids of groceries weighing in at over 3/4 of a million pounds. Keep tuned in for our posts on our adventures of the 2010 Paralympics Games from Whistler, BC.

Cheers, Olympic Mike

Olympic Breakfast Team

A special mention this morning to our breakast team. This is one team that we've taken for granted but have to come to appreciate day in and day out. As we all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it set's the tone for us every day. Lead by Chef Robert who is dedicated and a hard worker preparing breakfast for thousands, he coordinates and ensures breakfast is ready on time each day because he has a lot of people counting on him. He has a dedicated crew that backs him up,  in a previous E-Mail I spoke about the 25 items on the breakfast line, but what about the people that make the food?
Laura from Toronto always has a cheery smile and prepares a special breakfast each morning for the chef's to ensure our stressful day starts off right. Ann Marie and Jennifer are our bakers that not only prepare all the pastries and desserts, but get the muffins and bannock ready each day. Chris, Will and Peter man all the hot food stations preparing eggs, pancakes etc out front for the athletes, but remember one thing, there all backed up by Chef Robert in the kitchen so this team sings as one. To all the members of this team, I thank you, you are our unsung hero's.

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Closing Ceremonies

I’m Canadian and proud of it, in 10 years someone is going to ask me where I was when Sidney Crosby scored the overtime goal to win the gold medal at the 2010 Olympics and I’m going to say I was cooking with my buddies in the athlete’s village in Whistler watching the game in the cafeteria with 300 of my newest friends. My good friend Michael Smith and I have had many culinary adventures over the past 10 years but this one has to top them all.

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