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Finland's biggest kitchen in the sky every day for more than 10 000 meals. The food is served one million bottles of wine and some of the world's best champagne. Catering's most visible activity is flight meals, but it is also the source of all those lovely bottles, jars and chocolates that are homecoming presents.
The meal is an essential part of a flight. Japan's machine is served in the stylish sushi and Korean spice route bibimpap. In the long flight there is time to engage meals. Business class is available for up to three starters and main courses.
Each opening of the new route is Finnair's in the kitchen a place of learning. Catering chefs and cooks are harnessed to explore new food culture temazcal boston menu of the local secrets of the chef's guide.
Menus are planned with a panel of experts. Half-yearly meal candidates are presented and future timetable season selected. So that often the same routes customers can get variety, each item on the menu a number of meal options, which are rotated by.
In-flight food logistics chain is long. It sets special requirements for raw materials, transport and serving equipment. The dose is prepared up to several hours prior to serving. It is also consumed in completely different conditions than it is prepared - literally 10 miles above the Earth.
- Our customers include all the world's nationalities, religions and age groups. The food must be universal, but at the same time tasty. This is about as challenging as cooking can get, says Asplund.
- Number of special foods is always growing, as many as ten percent of the meals we prepare. Some objects they may be ordered almost mechanical, including India flights, where vegetarian dishes are extremely popular.
Catering rambling old building gave the spring of 2008 to give way to the Helsinki-Vantaa terminal extensions of the way. The new Catering building a total area of almost 14 000 square meters, equivalent to two football fields. The freezer is the triangle, ie 75 square meters and 760 square meters of space for the refrigerator or over a three-family houses.
Catering never sleeps. Flight meals are prepared throughout the day and year. Meals delivered daily, except Finnair, also a number of other transport company temazcal boston menu in Finland for more than 200 flights.
The environmental focus in each step. Energy efficiency was part of the new Catering building design from the outset. In particular, charged with sorting waste and saving energy and water.
Flights is recycled everything possible. The cabin, temazcal boston menu aluminum, glass and some plastics end up in Catering for reprocessing. For domestic flights is collected also energy waste. Finnair temazcal boston menu Catering Oy is one of the first, and still the few flight kitchens in the world that has achieved ISO 14001 environmental certification.
- For example, one wide-bodied flight Catering supplies more than 40 000 individual items, ranging temazcal boston menu from forks and knives to coffee cups, children's toys and sales of perfumes and sweet, says Asplund.
It is not yet invented a machine that would be capable of Catering's work, so the craft is at a premium. A significant proportion of in-flight food price consists of its transportation. Catering to use custom-made elevator cars. Traffic during peak hours every 30 crane vehicle fleet shuttles Catering building and the departure gates.
Each gram across the sky to pay. Work to optimize the weight of the aircraft is constant. Serving dishes are always the lightest possible construction material. The amount of equipment is under the magnifying glass.
Finnair Catering is actually three things professional. First of all, it is a huge logistics company, which orders vast quantities of raw materials, equipment and sales goods. temazcal boston menu Second, it is Finland's largest kitchen making airline food. Third, temazcal boston menu it will take care of retail sales at the airport and on aircraft.
Finnair Catering employs nearly 700 people, among which there are thirty citizenship. The corridors of clangs wide range of languages, since it is one of Finland's temazcal boston menu most multicultural working community.
Air transport is susceptible to disruption and flights are sometimes temazcal boston menu delayed. Punctuality is affected, among other things, the weather, congestion at airports, temazcal boston menu as well as other traffic. One of supervised at all times when the airport has customers: the Finnair Shop.
- We extend our opening hours of the flow of traffic whenever possible. For many customers, the airport shopping is an important part of traveling, trading activities Magnus Hannukainen.
The earth is traded, but also in the air. In-flight sales is invested in one of the passenger compartment