How Chefs Feed 100,000 Michigan Fans At America's Biggest Football Stadium | Big Business 

I'm glad to hear that they donate the extra unsold food to local pantries.

100,000 people in a single stadium is absolutely mind blowing to me. I live in the Pilbara, where there are 68.000 people spread out over 196,100 square miles. Out here you can go for a drive and go 3 or 4 hours without seeing another car.

I can fully get why stadiums went cash less now. That would be alot to keep track of and account for. Nice to see how its done.

From chip sorting to making sure the parfaits have spoons, you can tell how much this team cares about their work, and that there's no such thing as unskilled labour.

I can see why all the food staff stays when their head chef is a first in/last out type of guy. Always my favorite managers and chefs in food when you can see they're working just as much or more alongside you.

As a former chef for an nhl team I salute these folks. 3-4x as many people as we’d have and they do it no problem. Extremely difficult to do

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="260">4:20</a> Chef Chris' office number is B00B. Well done!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="530">8:50</a> "These workers are scooping popcorn out of trash cans" made me think they were using thrown out popcorn for a second 😆

Cameron doesn't wait 40 mins for the elevator, he just stashes his cart and watches the game. Respect

It's so weird that a University has the biggest stadium in the US. Never happens anywhere else in the world

And their General Manager is literally the Michael Jordan of managing stadiums.

My uncle attended Michigan in the 1940s. He said that he and my aunt could sit on their numbers and have room for a cooler between them. When Fritz Chrysler designed the stadium in the 20's, he knew Americans were gaining weight, so he had the numbers spaced farther apart than they needed to be.

I worked for U of M for a few years. The campus, town, and people are beyond wonderful. Watching makes me really miss it.

Great leadership and great staff! Awesome to see a well organized team doing a fulfilling work!

Holy moly wow that’s so much work and dedication

Great video, more like it please! I love narratives like this where you cover the history, logistics and business of "topic A + topic B." Especially this one, as both football and food are near and dear to my heart! 😁

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="203">3:23</a> shows just how serious the rival is.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="256">4:16</a> I started randomly laughing when I saw his room number omg😂😂😂

It is mind boggling to me that most of the staff here are volunteers...

I work in an NFL stadium over 20yrs, security. You def have a more massive hungry crowd! It says Chris is on his 14th hour at end...wow! Such long hard dedication! That is so nice you have a volunteer food charity team! One elevator?? That is a tight rigidly timed situation! I am very impressed with all of your staff and well planned organization! Keep up the great epic work! And thanks for sharing 😊🥨🥜🍗🍕🌭🍿x 100,000! 😂

these guys are killin it

While the football players and the game are the main show. The Cooks, Servers, Maintenance Teams are the true unsung heros.

I like the office the chef goes into at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="260">4:20</a> That plaque says it all.

Massive respect for this chef and his staff. Not an easy task at all, but somehow they get it done.

Dawg they caught me lacking <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="320">5:20</a> is me cutting pizza 🤣

I was at AWS Reinvent in 2017, first time in the US for me. We had so much food there, and when you left you could take lunch boxes with you. I always packed my bag with 1-2 lunch boxes (they were really big) and when I walked "home" I gave them away to hungry homeless people at the strip. Once I asked one of the hotel guards and service people outside while smoking a cigarette what the hotel does with the rest of the lunch boxes and he told me that they have to trash it. I am very glad that this is handled differently in michigan

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="748">12:28</a> “Mark this one down a solid B plus…” Lol Chris is a OG

Props to these folks...hard work

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="357">5:57</a>, this guy is literally the Michael Jordan of general managers at University of Michigan 😅

I worked concessions at the Big House for a couple years on the suite level. It is pandemonium to say the least!

dude @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="633">10:33</a> “if you’re not walking around with this you’re mid” 🤣

Shoutout to the Dishwasher ‼️

An entire semi trailer is only $20,000 worth of food? I can't even get out of the grocery store for less than $300.

Man, these guys work hard! Gives me better appreciation for the stuff they do behind the scenes.

Also, they don't mention the clean up crews. Even without checking the schedule, you knew a home game was going on by the flocks if seagulls circling the stadium. As soon as the crowds began to leave, there was a push to sweep up all the trash and bits of food before every gull in the area was descending into the stadium. I am not sure, but I thought student groups could be part of the crew as a fundraiser for their student organization.

I've been in the Stadium with 108,000 people surrounding me. It is an otherworldly experience.

Damn, can't imagine prepping and serving food to 100k. The amount of coordination, teamwork, and speed they must work with is just mind blogging. I can't imagine the level of stress. I would not be able to survive this. Props to these people.

Obligatory Go Blue! Super cool to see the BTS of a stadium I went to every week for a few years.

Great work by staff, we get 100000 at AFL Finals here in Melbourne & I imagine staff going Burko trying to cater for that many fans

The logistics and management level here is impressive. Also, it looks like this company gets a huge margin from sales here. I wonder if the concession of the stadium has been always the same or if has changed. On the other hand, I'm glad that they donate the leftovers of every game, this 500kg of food might feed a ton of people a day. I hope they keep it fresh until it's delivered. Greetings from ARG

I could care less who wins these days...But as long as the food is great and service is top notch, then it's been a fabulous day! Gotta respect all their hard work and attention to detail!

I respect people who have a passion to work jobs like this without them we wouldn’t have a bite to eat food for thought 🤓

Happy to see the excess food gets donated and not all tossed.

Go blue! Thanks for all the hard work you all do ❤️

Respect to all these folks who work long stressful hours and do it with a smile

I'm impressed of this program and I say WOW!

The best part of all of it was at the end. The yellow shirts in the truck. Classic

That's really good to hear that the left overs don't go to waste.

the donations

Very interesting video, and wow have things changed at the Big House with the food since we had to give up our season tix way back in 1998…

Oh man this brings back memory's of working at stadums and event centers in the kitchens

A just as impressive stadium is the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium in Pyongyang! After the 1988 Summer Olympics had been awarded to Seoul, the DPRK intensified its efforts to present itself in the global stage, and successfully bid to organize the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang in 1989. The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium was built for this festival. Today the stadium is known for being the venue of the Arirang Mass Games, a mass gymnastics and artistic festival. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the largest gymnastic display with over 100,000 participants. The stadium's scalloped roof features 16 arches arranged in a ring and resembles a magnolia blossom. When it opened in 1989, it had a capacity of 150,000! But this capacity was reduced to 114,000 in 2014. From 1989 to 2020, it was the world's largest stadium! However, it was beaten in 2020 by India's Narendra Modi Stadium in Gujarat when it was renovated to have a capacity of 132,000.

Im just getting into cfb always knew of it n players coming out of certain colleges etc. but I didn’t know they were passionate like this. Imma check out Ohio state, jsn is w the Seahawks so im sure he was nice with them

An A+ Approval. I didn't know they were so clean, somebody make a mess already... lol. Approved.

Some hard working people. Go Blue!

"America's biggest football stadium" massive understatement. It's the third biggest stadium of any kind in the entire world, second only to north korea and india. feel like they could have gotten more views if they didn't hugely undersell it like this lol.

Yup, Michigan Stadium is huge! Before they played there, Michigan played its games at Ferry Field, which had a capacity of 40,000 people. It was Fielding Yost who recognized the need for a larger stadium after original expansions to Ferry Field were too small and persuaded the regents to build a permanent stadium in 1926. They chose to model it after the Yale Bowl, and it had a capacity of 72,000 until Yost urged them to temporarily add 10,000 more bleachers at the top of the stadium for 82,000 seats in 1927 when the stadium opened. In 1930, electronic scoreboards were installed, making Michigan Stadium the first in the United States to use them to keep the official game time! In 1956, the addition of a press box raised the stadium's official capacity to just over 100,000 at 101,001. This began the 01 tradition, as the one extra seat is because the seat was reserved for Fritz Crisler, athletic director at the time. In the summer of 1973, renovation plans called for the removal of many of the rails in the stadium and replacement of the box seats in the first three rows with bleacher seats. This change allowed for six hundred more seats in the stadium, and capacity was now 101,701. In May 1991, two rows were added to the lower seating area of the stadium, raising capacity to 102,501. Currently it's 107,601 In September 2013, the stadium had 115,109 during a game against Notre Dame!

Awesome team work!! GO BLUE!!

Honest hard working jobs! Well done everyone!

When she divided the single serve chips onto the meals reminds me of my mom packing lunch's for school. Except we were not being punished for watching a football game.

I really want the same type of video but for the custodial staff of the stadium as well. As that girl was talking about the popcorn being confetti, my first though was "who is going to have to clean all of that up?" I mean I already feel bad for hospital and school custodians, let alone stadium custodians, I want to see there process for dealing with such a large project as well.

I love this comment section. Everyone is so appreciative of the hard work these people put into to make sure fans can get good food for a good price. The internet can be a good place if we make it :)

I took a tour there once with my grandpa! I was like 5-6 so I don't remember much but I do remember being on the field!

thats cool as hell. We have college sports in Colombia, But they're not this big, Crazy how they move the food.

I remember I used to come here with my church and we'd help serve food during the game days. We would be set up in tents inside the fence in front of the big M. It was FAST work, but at the same time it was always nice to be able to enjoy the atmosphere of being there during the slow moments. I had no idea until today though that it was the largest football stadium in the US. I feel a small twinge of pride now knowing I was serving food for so many people.

Probably the nastiest looking hotdogs I’ve ever seen in my life at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="548">9:08</a>🤢

Great team. Great team work. Win. Win.

National Champs this year. That aside, thank you to the men & women who work diligently to provide the concessions & hospitality for the fans.

do they pay the staff a years salary for the 7 days?

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="260">4:20</a> the room number is BOOB xd

That they are making use of the leftovers for people in need vs trashing it, is A+

Needing to reuse most of your footage twice during this video should've been a hint it was too long.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="184">3:04</a> CHICKEN LOLLIPOPS? God bless the usa

Props to these folks. Pretty cool insight what needs to be done

Anyone else's first thought was "wow that brisket is ruined"?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="256">4:16</a> BOO8 hahahahahahah

Went to Michigan vs Indiana this year… game wasn’t even sold out yet all the vendors ran out of food by halftime…

I live like 30 minutes from Ann Arbor. Im a fan of Michigan and Michigan State!

I hope that food is composted and their recycling game is as good as the team.

$50 an hour for cooking in a kitchen! Damn, that is high

Abby has such a great voice for narration.

that's crazy man

“If your not making a mess with the popcorn to make everyone clean up later your mid”…bruh your mid for making a mess😂

America is so capitalistic that majority of the staff here are volunteers

slept with youtube on and this is what i wake up to, intreating

His office is in room B008. That is legendary.

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="561">9:21</a>, you pay a hugely inflated price for a burger and side of chips but they only give you like HALF of the single serving of chips. Lmao what even is this.

That ain’t Micheal Jordan

Mad props to all the wolverines making it happen 👊

So glad that they donate the excess food

The largest stadium in the US and they can’t install a second elevator?

Those hot dogs look rancid

side note about Buddy's, theyre a super historic pizzeria for Detroit style pizza. afaik theyre one of the first places to use the steel square pans which are now the hallmark for detroit style. Didnt know they catered at the stadium, thats dope.

watching this video was more entertaining then any sports even could be

Speaking on behalf of all students in the student section, we were too drunk or too broke to buy it

I see we are now using the term chef EXTREMELY loosely

I was in the kitchen, but I’ve never seen the kitchen this chaotic

Wowee this looks like a job i'd never wanna do

They clean up the stadium with Connor Stalions and Blake Corums vacuum cleaners.

By these standards I too am a chef!