Case Study

Sodexo Live x Paris 2024 – LE GOUT DE L’EXPLOIT

Partner of some of the world’s biggest sporting events, Sodexo Live! leveraged its expertise to work for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

Sodexo Live! provided food services not only for the Athletes' Village, but also for fans, the staff of the organizing committee, as well as athletes at 14 Paris 2024 Olympic and 8 Paralympic competition venues

With 3 main goals

  • To contribute to athletes' personal performance

    by serving a balanced diet tailored to the needs and demands of elite sport

  • To contribute to achieving the environmental and social ambitions of Paris 2024

    by aligning with our CSR roadmap

  • To give athletes an unique and memorable experience

    by working with three iconic and super-talented Chefs: Akrame Benallal, Amandine Chaignot and Alexandre Mazzia

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Sodexo Live! managed the world's largest restaurant!

A decadent, yet performance-driven food service offer built around French gastronomy 

Our ultimate goal was to give athletes an experience as memorable as the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics themselves. Besides offering the world’s top athletes a diverse choice of authentic options created around their dietary needs and preferences to make them feel ‘at home’, we were also committed to using this occasion to introduce them to the excellence of French gastronomy. To achieve our goals, Sodexo Live! was partnering with three extremely talented chefs with complementary styles - Akrame Benallal, Amandine Chaignot and Alexandre Mazzia - who worked alongside our own community of chefs. Fully committed to the Paris 2024 ambition, these 3 top chefs contributed their inventiveness, personality and exacting standards to serving competing athletes with signature dishes.

A food service offer designed for elite sport to help athletes achieve their best-ever performance 

The teams of Sodexo Live! were focusing all their unique sports nutrition expertise and skills on feeding the athletes competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in accordance with the special dietary requirements of elite competitors. All the menus were prepared in close collaboration with sport nutrition specialists with input from the Paris 2024 Athletes Commission and Hélène Defrance, the renowned French sailor and bronze medalist at Rio 2016, who is now a nutritionist and performance advisor.

"Running the world's largest restaurant is a real challenge, and something you need to prepare for as you would before a marathon, but it's also a lifelong goal for any chef."

Charles Guilloy
Sodexo Live! Executive Chef for the Paris 2024 Athletes’ Village

"Involving all the chefs of Sodexo Live! around the world in helping to create the recipes was a truly memorable experience."

Stéphane Chicheri
Sodexo Live! Executive Chef

A challenge that also extends to event venues all over France

Paris, Versailles, Lyon, Marseille ... at no fewer than 14 Olympic venues and 8 Paralympic venues, Sodexo Live! was also offering spectators, athletes, organizers and staff the opportunity to spend time together around generous meals, the great majority of which were created using seasonal local produce. Spectators from around the world had the opportunity to discover distinctive flavors local to Paris, Marseille or Lyon, with dishes designed by chefs to feature French regional produce... as distinctive as they are, they shared the same commitment to healthy, delicious food creatively prepared around more plant-based ingredients, to experience the full emotion of sport and the pleasure of great food!

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