Gino D’Acampo launches exclusive partnership with Innovate Services.
Delicious ‘Simply Fantastico’ Italian meals to be created exclusively for Innovate’s school cafés.
Innovate Services Ltd, the innovative catering facilities operator to the education sector, has today announced an exclusive partnership with popular Italian chef, entrepreneur and author, Gino D’Acampo. As part of the relationship, Gino D’Acampo has created 12 authentic Italian pasta recipes that will be freshly served at all of Innovate’s 65 school, academies and college cafes across the UK.
Gino D’Acampo, who is also a familiar face through his many TV appearances, has designed the dishes as part of a new ‘Simply Fantastico’ range to offer students a choice of real Italian pastas that are packed with goodness and are based on traditional recipes using wholesome, honest ingredients.
The range is launching at all of Innovate’s dining facilities when the students return from the half-term break in February, and will be available as plated meal options or packaged in specially designed ‘grab and go’ insulated cartons.
In the meantime, Gino D’Acampo is currently undertaking a series of road-show events to meet Innovate’s catering teams and provide live demonstrations of how the dishes are created, explain what has gone into the recipes, offer taste testings and inspire the school chefs who will be preparing the recipes with his energy, enthusiasm and passion for creating real Italian food served with style.
Commenting on the launch of ‘Simply Fantastico’, Gino D’Acampo said, “I am a passionate believer in good, fresh food and am excited to have been invited by Innovate to deliver a new range of real Italian pasta dishes to school and college students across the UK.
The dishes use the very best quality ingredients that are full of goodness and taste great. They are based on some of my family favourites and so I hope the students enjoy the meals as much as I did when I was growing up.
Not only that, the meals are really easy to recreate and so recipe cards will be available so students can make the dishes at home with their families.”
Derick Martin, co-founder and CEO of Innovate Services said, “We are excited to exclusively partner with Gino D’Acampo to deliver the new ‘Simply Fantastico’ range of dishes to students and staff at all of our school, academy and college cafes.
Gino has come up with 12 delicious recipes that are bursting with flavour. We will continue to work with Gino in the coming months to develop additional authentic Italian dishes and I am sure that the students who visit our cafes will be impressed with the choices available. And, it goes without saying that all the recipes meet the school’s nutritional food standards, so parents can rest assured that the meals not only taste great, but are full of goodness too.”
For further information regarding Innovate Services, visit www.innovate-services.com