Vapiano, the Italian fresh casual dining group, is to stage its own in-house Olympics for 200 staff across its three London restaurants.
The Vapiano Olympics is being organised by restaurant manager Alex Poynter with the dual aim of driving standards further and building on teamwork amongst staff, and will run from September 1 to September 30 inclusive and involve daily and weekly challenges for individual staff members and also for the entire staff of each restaurant.
The challenges will include using fresh ingredients in the recipes to produce great tasting pizza, pasta and salads to Vapiano standards as part of a team with marks awarded for taste and presentation.
The Olympics will test each and every Vapiano team in their recipe knowledge as well as ensuring the exacting recipe standards are consistently delivered accurately and quickly. Amongst the other challenges there will be pizza dough tossing and best latte art (drawing with milk foam in coffee).
Vapiano staff members will be asked to create their own recipes, with the opportunity to have their exclusive recipe feature on the specials menu across the three London restaurants.
Fan review
Additionally a Vapiano fan, selected by Twitter, will be asked to review each restaurant individually with points awarded to the restaurant which receives the best review.
There will also be a prize for the winning restaurant to be shared amongst its staff, and the competition will be judged by Vapiano’s UK and US Managing Director Phil Sermon and other senior management.