San Francisco Restaurant Blog

The catering for sports stadiums is a logistical challenge: we must give to eat thousands of people in a short time. Catering teams have to be fast, accurate and act together, like good sportsmen. We note this sporting challenge closely, passing one day league at the premises of FC Barcelona and talked with the commercial director of the company responsible for supplying the stadium in Barcelona on the future.

Camp Nou is a party which never televised. A party that lasts much more than ninety minutes and whose team never carries a ovation from the stadium. However, if his players stop their shirts, deeply puzzled the public. The impact would be even worse than, say, a 0:5 in a FC Barcelona versus Real Madrid. We are talking about the party that plays every day any team in charge of Catering of a football stadium. Usually a friendly with the public: how important are not the goals, but accurate passes, not media stars stand out, but team spirit prevails.

The sporting challenge is to serve thousands of people in a short time, a challenge that depends on the magnitude of the stadium. That is why we are entering the premises of Football Club Barcelona at the Camp Nou. With room for 98,787 spectators now is the football stadium with more capacity in Europe. Since the 2006/2007 season Catering to the sports facilities of the club is in charge of Serhs Group, the first tourist group in Catalonia, specifically his company Serhs Food Service. Not only conducts supplying the football stadium, but also the Mini Estadi, the Palau Blaugrana, the ice rink and Sports City. For their employees the day begins five hours before the referee gives the whistle. Ronaldinho, Eto’o and Messi are resting on their couches, when a group of sixty people is close to Camp Nou. Palau BlaugranaEmpiezan to heat must be baking bread for sandwiches that will be requested in a couple of hours, cut and spread with tomato.

We must prepare the sausages, cut the ham, cheese and packaging. In short: we must make the mise en place. As part of a group consisting of eighty-two companies many of which belong to both segments of production and management as food distribution and logistics, the supply of facilities is done almost entirely through the network itself.