How 215,000 Meals Are Made For Super Bowl LIV

more than two hundred and fifteen thousand people are expected to flock to Miami for America's biggest sporting event and all of those fans come with big appetites we do two things here we play that's Diana de la Cruz or chef D the Executive Chef of the Super Bowl she's in charge of feeding everyone from the fans to the players and performers she runs an army 3000 culinary professionals hustling day and night leading up to the big game but they're not just serving up stadium nachos they're also whipping up complex dishes like porchetta and seafood paella and they're doing it all against the clock delivering meals across the stadium the size of well a football field we are leaving this amazing adrenaline rush and it's like a bomb just blow in the middle of the kitchen just feels like we all go to word we'll fight our own battles and at the end of the run we come back and we tell their stories about how we made it so how do they feed all the football's biggest fans this year Miami's Hard Rock Stadium is hosting the big game the stadium and its caterer center plate are no stranger to big events but for Super Bowl 54 things are taken up a notch we are doubling the building and everything that we're doing so far 50 percent more staff was brought in just for Super Bowl Sunday including dishwashers line cooks inventory staff and 35 chefs flown in from all over North America but the staff has to think beyond the game they're also press events NFL executive dinners and the fan experience at Miami Beach Convention Center which means on top of the 65,000 fans squeezing into the stadium the chefs are responsible for seeing an extra 150,000 people in just one week while it wouldn't share an exact number Center plate does expect millions of dollars in sales for the Super Bowl alone to get it all done the culinary team began planning for this event nearly four years ago but it all comes down to the 24 hours before the Super Bowl there is a system to the madness I know people don't believe that but it it is there is that it's something behind it so this is how we work Super Bowl everything is in order we kind of have a system we have we have labels inventory staff receives all incoming produce starting 36 hours before game day its hustled into storage or divided into kitchen fridges just typically do most of the cooking from seven kitchens in the stadium but for Super Bowl Sunday they had to wheel in three extra mobile kitchens and outsource cooking to local vendors in a Miami Beach Convention Center main kitchens crank out food for lounges suites and concession stands and in those stands the staff aims to keep the time between ordering your food and getting it in your hand at 45 seconds Hitchens are divided up into cold and hot sections in the cold kitchen they're throwing together dishes like wedge salads and ceviche in hot they're frying up heaps of plantains and chicken wings chefs line up rows of turkey sandwiches labor over bats of lamb curry and dish al gallons and gallons of baked beans for the sweets here they'll be cooking 10,000 hot dogs alone 49ers once cooked all the food is rushed down the stadium secret Highway under the stands sorry I walk fast don't move you I'm going to slow down we call these the belly of the beast we are walking through what we call our area when it comes to food and beverage I'm having a coffee macaroon so I can continue going anybody who walks on game day should have between 6 to 11 miles all this is in preparation for the biggest food rush right before kick-off food heads up to one of the 85 concession stands and carts in the concourse while some stands have small grills to finish up cooking most rely on deliveries from downstairs whenever they get close to running out let's just say the best thing happen often but if it does then somebody calls the radio and then somebody wrongs really fast so with the stadiums massive size and thousands of people clogging up the concourse deliveries can be tough it's a big giant that moves on these on sometimes today you might be selling all the plot pipe heats up tomorrow you might be selling all the burgers so it's all about readjusting and making sure that we've managed the expectation upstairs are handling smaller tasks but the same amount of food we are in what we call the cold side area for sweets out of these two kitchens we fit about 157 sweets imagine 157 small restaurants we are in the best kitchen a hard rock stadium [Applause] Super Bowl we got to two pioneers three here they're slicing up cheese and roasting racks on racks of mushrooms imagine what you see here and cook for 600 people for me the team cranks out 400 different menu items on Super Bowl Sunday alone and if one thing breaks well if one of them breaks it's like a domino effect something is gonna fall behind so you can't take anybody's program it especially in such a large operation like what we have here and in this game the size is the biggest hurdle at a regular restaurant for a regular day you might order just two cases of lobster tails instead after sitting two cases the lobster tail you receiving 3,000 we just smoked about 45 4400 almost 5,000 pounds of pork butts right now actually I'm bringing about 9,000 cookies which is crazy I just called my my friend bury that thing you know I need more cooking luckily chef D can rely on others to help make the magic happen she's hired 40 local vendors to turn out everything from 4,000 popsicles within a week to cake pops cookies and bundt cakes for the Suites working 24 hours and they have four chef right now I have to rent extra refrigeration this is the founder of pastries art a family-owned bakery in charge of all the desserts for the Super Bowl and yes she did get that call for those nine thousand cookie champion super funny we plan and get organized I made you say oh by the way mama just so you know I made order a little bit more cookies I'm like okay sure no problem how many more I don't know about 2500 more yes a sure chef no point I got it I got it and then when I hang on the phone I'm like oh my god we have 2500 more cookies it's interpolates 15 Super Bowl but it's chef tees first we are all of us bearing ourselves to thousands of fans out there I always tell everybody on gameday find a little moment you know and look down into the bowl and and find yourself thinking you know find yourself in the back and say I did that [Music]

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Length: 7min 1sec (421 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020