{"id":87341,"date":"2026-07-21T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/87341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:27:08","slug":"compass-group-scores-with-catering-jobs-at-fifa-world-cup-stadiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/87341\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass Group scores with catering jobs at Fifa World Cup stadiums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Providing catering at the Fifa World Cup matches in the US has boosted business for Compass Group, the outsourcing giant revealed. <\/p>\n

The business, which is the world’s biggest catering group, also said it was cashing in on the AI boom by providing food and services to data centres. <\/p>\n

In an update to investors, Compass said it benefited from more work in North America, which co-hosted the men’s football tournament across 16 host cities and stadiums. <\/p>\n

Compass provided hospitality and catering at four stadiums in the US: Atlanta, Kansas City, San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle; which between them hosted 27 matches in the World Cup. <\/p>\n

All of the stadiums have capacities of up to about 70,000 people. <\/p>\n

The company also catered five of the official fan festivals, including the final watch party in New York’s Central Park. <\/p>\n

\"Ecuador<\/a> Compass catered to four stadiums hosting matches at the Fifa World Cup (Bradley Collyer\/PA) <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Compass revealed that it was cashing in on supporting “leading AI hyperscalers across the data centre ecosystem”. <\/p>\n

This was through services like food, and facilities management and cleaning, for both the building and running of data centres. <\/p>\n

The company said it had generated more than 2.0 billion US dollars (\u00a31.5 billion) worth of new work to businesses across different industries. <\/p>\n

Compass, which has about 590,000 staff, caters to some of the biggest US tech companies including Microsoft, Google and Amazon. <\/p>\n

It has previously said more businesses were opting to outsource food services in the face of complex regulation and the risk of allergies. <\/p>\n

This has lead to around half of new contract wins in the past year coming from clients outsourcing catering for the first time. <\/p>\n

Compass said its sales grew by 7.1% in the three months to the end of June, compared with the same period a year ago. <\/p>\n

Chief executive Dominic Blakemore said: “We are winning market share across multiple sectors, supported by the strongest pipeline of opportunities we have ever seen.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Providing catering at the Fifa World Cup matches in the US has boosted business for Compass Group, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21262],"tags":[15639,5356,37900,37901,37902],"class_list":["post-87341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-compass-group","tag-compass-group","tag-data-centres","tag-hospitality-and-catering","tag-san-francisco-bay-area","tag-stadiums"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116958202573098496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}