Delivery of a successful Games had required catering, building, logistics and many other disparate industries to move to a non-negotiable deadline and they'd done it – and deserved credit.
Dr. Ronald Vaughn, president of the University of Tampa, said he has used Sodexho over the past 15 years for catering, building management and construction and estimates initial savings of 20% a year.
"I could see the impact point was going to be around about the Hatton Cross area, which includes catering buildings, a tube station and a petrol station," he added.
Cleaning, catering and building maintenance at the struggling school were to be outsourced to a private company.
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The plan included ideas that ranged from turning historic Hempstead House at the Sands Point Preserve into a catering hall and building a 19th-century period hotel at Old Bethpage Restoration Village to hiring private contractors to manage the aquatic center at Eisenhower Park and the cabanas at Nickerson Beach, the recently renamed county beach in Lido Beach.
Sodexho also performs other outsourcing, including catering, housekeeping and building maintenance for schools including the MIT, Arizona State University and Northwestern University.
It is the ability to create different areas within a campus and building, catering for different working styles that is important, he says.
And though many large Class A office buildings have been built in the area in recent years, he added, the same is not true of smaller buildings catering to small tenants.
Every year Metelkova Mesto hosts more than 1,500 alternative events in its illegally occupied buildings, catering to a wide spectrum of subcultures, from theatre performances and punk concerts to disability workshops and LGBT club nights.
Whether it is sourcing a paint-spraying robot arm for Alexander McQueen, or creating a 3D hologram of Kate Moss, their job is not only to deal with the very nuts and bolts of both fashion shows and shoots (from catering to set-building), but also to realise the designer's creative vision.
