Temporary Kitchen and Dining Overlay for Major Events
PKL has supplied large-scale temporary catering infrastructure to major events around the world for over 25 years. Our range of solutions includes the provision of the main athletes’ village temporary kitchen and dining complexes, temporary catering in event venues, media catering facilities at venues such as the main press centres and international broadcast centres, catering infrastructure for hospitality venues, workforce kitchens and dining and catering infrastructure for larger scale public catering areas.
Although a temporary facility, the provision of catering infrastructure at major events often takes over 12 months of planning, and many weeks to install. In addition, a lot of specialist catering equipment is often required, due to the unique requirements of major event catering.
We provide a complete turnkey service, which often starts a number of years before a major event facility is delivered on site. We will work with the appointed design teams of the major games or event organiser, foodservice consultants, tent provider or appointed contact caterer to produce a facility which matches your requirements.
Major Events Experience
PKL has a vast amount of experience in delivering turnkey solutions for major sporting events around the World. The below map illustrates the large number of sporting events that we have supplied temporary kitchens and dining facilities to, feeding atheletes, staff, officials, media, sponsors and public.
Major Event Temporary Catering Facilities
Whether it’s the temporary kitchen and dining facilities for an Athletes Village, kitchens for the media, sponsors, hospitality or public catering facilities, we’ve been there and done it around the world over the last 30 years. The case studies below provide an in-depth overview of some of the major sporting events and the types of temporary catering facilities that PKL has supplied.
Athletes’ Village Temporary Kitchen and Dining
Kitchen and dining complexes are used to feed athletes, officials and staff for major games. These are large scale facilities that can take up to 12 weeks to construct once we are on site, and are required to be operational 24 hours a day for the duration of the event.
The athletes’ village kitchen and dining facilities are supplied in large scale temporary structures and can typically seat around 6,000 people, providing up to 60,000 meals each day.
They will often contain separate serving and dining areas for athletes, and staff and officials, and contain large scale production kitchens, and zoned servery areas providing a range of different world cuisine to cater for the tastes of participants from a large number of different countries.
IBC/MPC Temporary Kitchen and Dining
The IBC and MPCs house the world’s press covering a major games, and due to deadlines and different time zones in home countries, are required to be operational at all times. With the number of journalists and press personnel often similar, if not greater than the number of participants in an international event, the catering operation in these venues is incredibly demanding throughout the period of a games.
Catering infrastructure for media and broadcast centres often involves a complex installation of catering equipment into an existing building or into a purpose built temporary structure. Catering infrastructure typically involves a number of large scale production kitchen facilities or central production units, complemented by a large number of servery areas (typically in excess of 500m of servery counters) with a small number of production facilities to back them up. These are typically used to provide various types of menu to cater for the range of different nationalities using the facility.
Corporate/ Sponsors Hospitality Catering and Casual Dining
Corporate sponsors and official hospitality areas present a variety of requirements and can range from large scale temporary kitchen and dining areas catering for thousands of guests and dignitaries, to smaller scale facilities capable of hosting a few hundred people.
These areas often provide a five star dining service. We have worked with large international event caterers, games delivery committees and games sponsors, to design and deliver the catering infrastructure required to keep their guests fed for the duration of major events. We can also provide innovative solutions for casual dining and bar areas around the athletes’ village.
Public Areas Catering
We also supply catering infrastructure for public restaurant areas used to provide food for the public at major events on a large scale. This can include installing temporary catering facilities for a large number of locations around a major event park, for use in outlets such as coffee shops, takeaways, bars and large scale public restaurants.
From an early stage, we will work with the appointed caterer for the public food areas at a major event, to ensure the successful design and delivery of temporary catering facilities.
Discover Our Case Studies
PKL work over many industry sectors with a range of organisations both in the UK and around the world providing everything from temporary kitchens for short and long term purposes, permanent modular kitchens, and bespoke event hires. Have a look through our latest case studies below:
Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Temporary Kitchen and Dining
Athlete's Village Temporary Kitchen and Dining for Gold Coast Games The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games welcomed over 6,500 athletes and officials from 71 nations to compete in 17 different sports. On top of [...]
Rio 2016 Athletes Village Temporary Kitchen and Dining Facilities
Athletes Village Temporary Kitchen and Dining at Rio 2016 The Rio 2016 Summer Games was the largest mutli-sport event ever held in Brazil. 16,500 athletes and officials were housed in the athlete’s village – [...]
Toronto Pan American Games Athletes Village Kitchen and Dining
Athletes Village Kitchen and Dining for Pan American Games in Toronto The Toronto Pan American/Parapan American Games 2015 was the largest multi-sport event ever held in Canada. 7,500 athletes and officials were housed in [...]
A Comprehensive Turnkey Solution
To ensure a seamless and successful experience when working with PKL for major events, we offer a tailored turnkey solution, starting with a site survey and encompassing design, project management, construction, delivery and installation, and ongoing support once your kitchen or catering equipment is up and running at your site.
We can manage the entire catering infrastructure operation for a major event, and have experience of designing, installing and managing 150 kitchen locations at a single major international event.
Site
Survey
Design site survey undertaken in the host country to understand local regulations, and power and gas services requirements
Kitchen Design
and Specification
CAD and 3D renders, services, electrical and mechanical drawings. We can help specify the temporary structure to house the kitchen
Equipment
Preparation
In our purpose-built catering equipment test and inspection centre. All equipment will arrive pre-tested to esnure it is installed in full working order and ready for installation
Project
Management
We will produce a detailed project management plan. We will provide a project manager and oversee a team of engineers at each venue and kitchen/dining location. Project management of contractors required to design and build temporary overlay facilities
Delivery, Installation
and Breakdown
We’re vastly experienced in shipping temporary catering facilities around the world. We’ll ship, install and commission kitchen and dining facilities and remove them once the event has finished
Onsite Technical
Support
24/7 technical support service. We’ll have a team of engineers on-site to provide reactive and preventative maintenance throughout the duration of the event to ensure the kitchen remains operational
See Our Major Event Kitchens in Action!
If you would like to see some of the different types of temporary catering facilities that we have supplied for worldwide major events, the video above outlines some of our recent installations. This will give you an idea of the different types of catering facilities that we are able to provide and the range of services we offer. Everything outlined in the video relates to temporary kitchens and dining facilities provided for major event catering uses, which are set up before the start of major games, and removed again once it is complete.
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