Now dubbed the Bobcat Café, this themed area removes the work atmosphere from the one place where Bobcat staff are able to relax and enjoy some down time during their lunch or tea and coffee breaks. To achieve this, Expovent has brought in café-style furniture items in Bobcat's signature red, white and black corporate colours, as well as exciting fifties themed décor and draping to give the dining area an extra funky edge.
Commenting on the contract, Expovent Evolutions managing director, Adrian McKnight says: "Not only are we responsible for the menu planning and management of the Bobcat Café, but we will also be handling all of Bobcat's corporate functions and its directors dining."
Introducing a completely new concept to the way staff canteens are run, Expovent has pulled in the services of its catering division, DammFine Cuisine, which is renowned for its production kitchen operating out of Surrey Common located in Midrand, Gauteng. This means that all meals for the Bobcat Café are produced off-site at the production kitchen and delivered daily to the premises in Alberton. With stock, service and portion control and the preparation of all meals being handled off- site, on-site waste generation at the café is completely eliminated, while the lengthy preparation times, which employees could spend waiting for their meals, has also been removed.
This successful system is one that McKnight has adopted from his many years of experience working in production catering to multiple outlets in London, where he and his team supplied up to 17 different units from a central kitchen. "Once I have fine tuned the operation of the production system, DammFine Cuisine will be able to generate wholesome food production for multi-units in the Gauteng area with great ease," he concludes.
