LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - Wimbledon ⁠will serve up a new signature cocktail for fans visiting the All England ⁠Club this year as organisers prepare to keep more than 500,000 guests refreshed during ‌the two-week tournament starting on Monday.

“We have a new signature cocktail, the Centre Court Cooler, which is gin-based and very tasty,” Michelle Dite, operations director at the All England Club, told Reuters.

“We spend a year reflecting on previous ​Championships and looking at what more we could do differently ⁠for the future,” she said.

“We want ⁠to make sure that anyone who comes that their experience is not short of outstanding.”

The £12.80 Centre ⁠Court ‌Cooler is made up of gin, lemon juice, cucumber juice and elderflower.

With 55 kitchens on site with 292 kitchen staff, Wimbledon is the largest annual catering operation in ⁠sport across Europe, Dite said.

Fans are expected to consume 345,000 glasses ​of Pimm’s and 2.5 ‌million strawberries with 17,363 litres of cream during the fortnight.

An estimated 315,000 restaurant meals ⁠will be served ​alongside 19,000 portions of fish and chips and 27,000 pizzas, while 230,000 cups of tea and 24,396 bottles of champagne are also expected to be sold.