McLaren, yes that McLaren, has a catering division. Or rather it had a catering division, as it announced just this morning that it sold it.
Absolute Taste, as the catering division was known, was sold to a company called One Event Management, which appears to consist of a catering division of its own, a pub, and a helicopter business
In case you’re actually wondering why the hell McLaren had a catering division, apparently almost 20 years ago McLaren realized they had a bunch of employees and no internal catering division to feed them, according to the Absolute Taste web site:
Back in 1997 Lyndy Redding and Ron Dennis formed Absolute Taste in order to provide hospitality to the McLaren F1 team.
Nearly 20 years on, the Absolute Taste team still travel the world providing fresh food and VIP hospitality to the McLaren Honda Formula 1 Team, its partners and guests throughout the grand prix season.
We are also contracted to supply the exclusive catering for the employees of McLaren Technology Group LTD at their head office in Woking, including all corporate hospitality and events for clients, sponsors and business partners. We feed up to 2,500 staff per day in the restaurant on site which is open 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea.We actually spoke to some of our McLaren sources to find out the impact this would have on the business, and they sounded truly devastated.
“Awwwwwwww MAN! I’m sad, their food rocks,” one McLaren source who requested deep anonymity told us.
(Jalopnik.com)
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