Scolarest invests in the most precious capital of our future: youth!

The beginning of the calendar year was a school start for Scolarest at Liège.  A start not to be failed: students in full preparation of examinations need regularity and a variety of nutritive and healthy food.  In short, a well dosed and balanced supply of calories keeps the spirit alert whereas a richly stuffed and heavy meal will tend to dozing.  A university course of dietetics?  Rather, a simple reality...

Scolarest has been chosen as new food service provider at the University of Liège on the basis of its precise answers to the tender.  Both a strict control of the budget and guaranteeing a constant quality were the basic objectives.

The size of the contract is a challenge apart. Philippe Scherpenbergs, district manager and responsible for the site, supervises two self service restaurants (450 and 1000 passages at lunch) offering a range of hot and cold dishes, a salad bar, drinks, desserts, fruit, and six cafeterias which open at 8 o'clock with breakfast and coffee for the nightclubbers.   The service is completed later on in the morning with an assortment of sandwiches, hot snacks (panini, pasta), desserts, drinks, to consume in situ or to take away.

Scolarest has introduced in each of its selling points the programme Balanced Choices.  This helps the guest to make a well balanced choice of food all over his nutritive day. There is nothing such as 'bad food', on the contrary: taste is a very individual matter.  However frequency and quantity do play an important role.  Fries can be a weekly habit, but should not be an evidence daily.  Labels inform the guests of specific nutritive elements of certain products or preparations.  The food pyramid is the overall guideline.  Scolarest edits every month product notices to inform and 'educate' its guests.

The restaurants offer on daily basis an adapted and well chosen range with among others the 'healthy dish'. Cafeterias follow the same principle with the 'Healthy panini' and the 'sandwich week's special' prepared with wholebread. Fair trade has a prominent place with an exclusive consumption of Mano-Mano coffee, the fair trade brand of Café Liégeois.  The introduction of other bio products on a sustainable way is now being looked into.

Next to that Scolarest manages the restaurant reserved for professors and guest speakers providing a table service (with a capacity of 100 persons).  The visitor can daily choose out of three menus consisting of a starter, a dish and a dessert.

All the food services on the campus are taken care of by a team of 50 persons of the university staff, assisted by 6 Scolarest staff members.  Next to the restaurant services, Scolarest organises also all banqueting, going from receptions and cocktails till special formulas for large manifestations.  Examples are the New Year wishes of the rector, the welcome drink for new students etc.

School holidays do not equal vacation.  Scolarest declares its solidarity with students and assures permanency throughout the year, although on a limited number of catering sites during the holidays.

IG - 2011 April 18th