The new Mineral Resources headquarters opened in 2022 with a vision for ‘a living atmosphere that is conducive to work’ and was accredited with International Platinum WELL v2 Building Standard. Benny’s, the casual dining café restaurant is located on Level 12 with a stunning 360 degree view of herdsman Parade. It fulfills the wellness objective of providing high quality nourishment for all its employees, with each dish having no more than 25% percent sugar. This took a lot of effort in researching alternative ingredients and menu and methodology rewriting at the hands of Chef Benny, a celebrated Chef from Typika in Clairmont
The kitchen for this restaurant is centrally located within the dining space and is completely visible at every angle to all diners. This enables every diner to experience the culinary centre and its ongoing activity and showcases. The stunning venue features seven culinary centres that includes Asian Wok, Western Grill, Pasta, Curries, New York salad bar, Grab n Go and Japanese/ Sushi to meet the culinary taste expectations of a growing multi-cultural workforce. The kitchen opens for breakfast and lunch and facilitates take-home meal options at the end of the working day.
Food is ordered via an app for employees and kiosk stations for guests. Each meal takes an average of 8 minutes to prepare, and a text /app notification is sent to the customer for pickup once ready. The kitchen was designed to centralize the production in the centre and during meal service the chefs gravitate to the outer flanks for finish cooking. The kitchen uses high-tech equipment like combis, sous-vide cookers, vacuum pans and blast chilling to enhance flavours, decouple production from service, and to increase refrigerated shelf life for mise en place; all in compliance with international standards of hygiene and safety.