Our first DFM – Dire Fare Mangiare
Our first DFM – Dire Fare Mangiare has come to an end, proving once again to be a truly unique event for the Italian catering sector: two intense days of meetings, exchanges, ideas and discussions on the trends and challenges that are transforming the sector.
It was a major organisational effort that brought together businesses, clients, professionals and institutions over two days and, above all, created real opportunities to talk, listen and build.
A special thank you to Mario Sistito and Fabio Coruzzi from POLIBOX, who encouraged us to take part: they were right.
For BIOPAP®, it was also an opportunity to contribute to the round-table discussion ‘School catering: proposals and models to improve service quality’, moderated by Gabriella Iacono, alongside Francesco Di Marco – Dussmann Service, Marianna Mandolfo – Municipality of Corsico, Corrado Giannone – Ristorando/National Council of OTA and Manuela Atzeni – Municipality of Cagliari.
Our message was simple: innovative materials and packaging solutions are enabling technologies for the service.
By designing food, packaging and processes together, we can influence the entire process prepare → store → transport → reheat → serve → enhance, helping to improve organoleptic quality, food safety, operational efficiency and service conditions, whilst simultaneously reducing waste and environmental impact.
This is the vision that BIOPAP® has developed for the catering sector: innovating packaging to innovate the service, to the point of integrating its end-of-life into bio-waste collection and the biological circular economy, thereby transforming the catering sector into a driving force behind the bio-economy.
But perhaps the greatest value of DFM lay precisely in the meetings themselves.
High-level discussions with Serenissima Ristorazione, Dussmann Service, ITA Airways, Milano Ristorazione, CIRFOOD, Sodexo, Elior and many other operators have enabled us to pinpoint real needs and operational challenges, and to identify practical applications for our technologies.
Because innovation truly gains value when it moves beyond presentations and becomes concrete action that shifts paradigms.
We’ve returned from our first Dire Fare Mangiare event brimming with inspiration, having made new contacts and, above all, with new projects to develop.
Thank you to everyone who shared their challenges and experiences with us, and to those who have begun to imagine, together with BIOPAP®, new ways of delivering collective catering.
We’ll certainly meet again.
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