Cuisine Solutions was first established in 1987 by founder and now Chairman Stanislas Vilgrain. It opened its first plant in Louviers in France in 1989.
The company, now led by CEO and President Felipe Hasselmann, is the largest sous vide company in the world and a leading culinary innovation partner, with locations in Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, Cuisine Solutions now services more than 35,000 restaurants and 3,500 retailers, as well as top airlines and hotel brands, including Amtrak, KLM, Sodexo, Costco, Hilton, Applebee’s, Starbucks, among many others.
Global authority
As the global authority in the sous vide industry, Cuisine Solutions provides its partners with a wide range of ready-to-eat sous vide products, including proteins, sauces, grains, plant-based products, its industry-shifting egg bites and more.
Cuisine Solutions partners with top airlines to streamline their operations, enabling reduced waste, lowered labour costs, and saving hours of chef preparation time. It also offers bespoke services to train onboard culinary staff on using sous vide products.
Throughout its more than 20-year-long run, its products have been served (and, in some cases, will soon be served) on flights across the world. Routes include North America outbound (including Canada); EU outbound including flights to North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East; Asia outbound including Hong Kong, Haneda, Narita, Osaka, Singapore, Bangkok and Phuket; and Middle East outbound including UAE, Qatar and KSA.
Nowadays, Cuisine Solutions can provide offerings to its partners from three continents of production to service their flights from these regions, with a new Thailand facility adding Asia to its books.
Looking forward
Cuisine Solutions believes the only reliable prediction for the near future is that budgets available for inflight services and products will remain unpredictable, as a result of upturns and downturns in the global economy.
What it thinks will remain a constant, however, is the request for food offerings that adhere to the passenger’s desire to eat wholesome, familiar foods that are innovative, restaurant-quality and responsibly-produced.
Fortunately, this is all part and parcel of the Cuisine Solutions global standard!
