Oxford Science Park, Oxford
When The Oxford Science Park needed advice on how to deliver enhanced foodservice to its 60 Tenants, they naturally approached Coverpoint to deliver.
When The Oxford Science Park needed advice on how to deliver enhanced foodservice to its 60 Tenants, they naturally approached Coverpoint to deliver.
The Oxford Science Park is a unique business campus designed for science and technology business Tenants. Coverpoint provided strategic advice for a new, central amenity building, being constructed as part of the development. The stylish Saddler Building opened in December 2007 with a gourmet coffee bar, brasserie and lounge bar, as well as extensive conference and meeting rooms.
Coverpoint created and delivered a foodservice strategy, not only for the existing Magdalen Café, but also the new central Amenity, the Saddler Building.
Coverpoint effectively infused commercial business principles with workplace dining to develop a business model for both facilities capable of delivering a return to the Client, by introducing new markets and business opportunities to the Park.
Coverpoint were also appointed to project manage the selection process for a foodservice partner to operate all facilities. The cultural fit of the successful operator was key to the Client team and our selection approach was carefully tailored as a result.
In addition to the submission of budgets, each short listed operator was required to organise hosted site visits and ‘cook-off’s’ designed to enable the Client to see each operator in a variety of environments and to meet real employees, not just sales teams.
The Saddler Brasserie was launched in December 2007 and represents a new approach to Business Park foodservice, fully meeting the Client needs along the way.
- Existing operational review
- Strategic business direction report
- Foodservice contract tender and cook offs
- Transition management
- Contract document preparation
- Commercial forecasting