How The World's Largest Cruise Ship Makes 30,000 Meals Every Day 

And they load it all on the ship in one day

They are all very skilled and paid very well for it.

@@steelinskin5925 They arent paid well for it lmao... the ships are registered in panama so they can pay their crewman around 3 dollars an hour

@@steelinskin5925 well except for flags of convenience making it exceptionally easy to pay poverty wages, but sure, I guess *someone* must be well paid

Stein 6000+ passengers for a week? That’s a lot of diarrhea😂😂😂😂

no, they get the money

@@MVelli but not necessarily much they are often hired from countries with low income, for a in relation to an average Us income low income, to cut costs and get as much profit as possible.

I hope they do

i'm filipino college student taking cruiseline operations in Culinary arts, and this video is stressing me out

@@lechazeur don't get discouraged Bonl, Im sure there are positive aspects to this job as well. Plus you can be the one to bring improvements in that work place.You can do a vlog once you start working to point out situations if they are extreme etc

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Exactly! Plus they work long hours for long stretches of time w/o a day off as I'm sure applies to all these ships crews, not to mention they're away from their loved ones during these cruises which is difficult I'm sure. (And they have to bunk w/others so they probably don't get a lot of privacy either).

On both accounts ;)

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I've been on 3 cruises. I've scored off the staff on all 3 cruises.

They lie. The contracts for lower positions in the kitchen is up to 9 months. When I was on my early 20's I did a few contracts on the ship at 9 months each as cook. Only the last 3 were at 4 months because I was already a Sous Chef.

@@tonymontana4929 A friend of mine after he was out of the military started the cruise run and he did 6 months on 3 off. He thought it would be a easy job he said it was a nightmare because even when the shift is over you walk around with a uniform shirt. So you are pretty much always expected to stop and help anyone who asks even when off duty. He said it was a 24/7 job pretty much because the only escape he had was in the very tiny room he shared with another guy. He now has his own very tiny room lol but he is still working for them and has moved up to a point where he has a crew of 40 men under him.

Its free real estate

@@th3t3rrorist38 your user makes it better lmao 😂

@@neotheone5559 lol

lmao

It's free real estate.

Must be nice to be a rich white privileged person...

@@grilleFire actually a blue collar heavy machine operator here in Canada. Took splitting quite a few pay checks to be able to take my first vacation in years.

@@QuinnPerrault Shit dude, you deserve it at that point. Idk what the other comment said, but don't listen to haters.

Thank you for your stay 🙏

You recommend sh*t fast food like Johnny Rockets on a ship filled with highly trained Chefs from around the world? Tell us you’re Murican without telling us. 🙄

Nerd_World you should go on one.

definitely look at going on one

Nerd_World I used to work as a chef de Partie on Carnival Cruises. Allow me to explain to you how hectic and terrible life on the ship is. Morning / Breakfast shift - 2:30 a.m - 10:30 a.m By the time you wrap up it’s 11:00 a.m By the time you take a shower and go to sleep it’s 12:00 p.m Dinner shift reporting - 4:00 p.m - 11:30 p.m Next day repeat! Also you get only HALF A DAY OFF A WEEK. Now you can calculate the hours they make you work. They literally make you work like a slave. You will also have dark circles by end of two months, due to lack of sleep and rest. By the end of 6 months, your spinal chord will pain like a b**** Also, your cabin is in the underwater compartments. So sleeping will be very hectic, you will also be swaying from side to side. People who work on the starter / cold sections have NO DAY OFF for a 10 months contract. But their shift is from 10am-10pm. No break apart from lunch and dinner. Also my overtime hours were automatically deleted by the system.

Imagine 24 no you shouldn’t the pollution and abuse of workers is insane.

O-Toko Maka Cruises are the best

Yeah allot of workers in the cruise ships aren't treated well TBH

Working on a cruise is slavery..I heard very bad things about working on one and I would never do it.

@@allexfenty You're American though. These people come from poor countries, and they get paid well considering where they're from.

@@DoctorChained Im from Barbados..im not american sorry.

@@kuriso I've done the long endless shifts for months at a time before. Not to seem like another entitled American, but 60k is not nearly enough for me to submit to that again.

lol it's actually cheaper to make some thing from scratch.

@@tauriusmagnamus3281 cheaper? Maybe. Easier? Hell no! Besides I buy premade pastas at the grocery. Usually on sale for around a dollar a box or bag. If they bought it wholesale, I'm sure it would be cheaper than scratch and paying staff to make!

They actualy arent, the fresh pasta is made only in that specific restaurant, its compeletely inviable to make fresh pasta every day for all those passangers, the rest of the kitchens use ready made pasta, which is in no way inferior to the fresh one. :)

@@tauriusmagnamus3281 You can get an awful lot of pasta out of a bulk pallet of eggs, a pallet of flour bags and a little water and salt!!!

it because of us white people !

So rude; it’s not my fault my stomach is a bottomless pit!

i consider them 8 snacks

That's bodybuilding meals. Immediately thought about my meals every day. Eat clean, train dirty

That 24/7 pizza is no joke on them cruises!

Sucks to be obese huh

Spring Montes yes please

Lmao imagine Gordon Ramsay in a cruise ship kitchen

@@d0002179262 Gordon will have a heart attack within hours of doing quality control. Guy will be yelling every 10 minutes.

Lmao but honestly, most of us would probably enjoy the food there but to Gordon Ramsay it would probably taste bad cause his standards are so high

I would watch

I hope that you’re in remission now and get to enjoy food in all it’s glory!

That’s beautiful, hope you’re well now (:

That’s amazing The chefs are awesome right

Thats awesome

No. She ded now.

Only gotta last a week or 2 tops. The nightmare would be real with a power outage.

They are well trained to do that and have done it 100 times. Its a piece of cake

They have production charts they go by. They have a computer that tallies the information as to what needs to be cooked and at what time.Checking the quality of the food is important,so they wont have any loss $$$

@@jonas3333 If a ship's power fails, you've got bigger issues than rotting food.

@@Fishfingers232 I bet! And it's bound to happen at some point. Ships like that must have backups for their backup power I'd think.

Unfortunately not the same for food as the passengers

@@Thailova True, but they still have to eat as well and the food has to be prepared, cooked and served, usually cafeteria style.

@John Smith Oh yeah. No staff members will be eating fresh steaks seafood or poultry. Employee meals mostly consist of leftovers from buffets. I never worked shipboard however, I was a Sous Chef for a private country club and employee meals were an important part of everyday service.

@@Thailova Well the passengers are paying large amounts of money to go on vacation for a little bit. The workers are earning money. Good money to be made people pay their retirement funds to spend a few days on one of these ships.

@@thesunflowchannel1995 these cruise ships use labor from the third world, use them as their slaves and there's no good money to be made. Cruise ship guests obviously vary but this whole business tends to be a pretty sick money makery circus that only serves few rich people . Basically just like United States !

Well said

Don't see you donating

@@ey7290 There is so many thing wrong with your statement

@@projectkepleren If there were many things wrong with the 4 words I said then you'd be going through them

@@ey7290 how do you know he doesn’t?

YBN Chris they getting that bag thi

Ever heard of cleaning machine?

Easier than cooking all those meals.

Nick Gers they don’t clean the dishes well 😬

Nick Gers dishwasher?

a few decades ago there was no respect in it. It was just the common sense thing to do either because food was scarce or expensive - often both.

wasted food cuts in to the bottom line. If it were cheaper to toss overboard, you think they wouldn't?

@@yeeaahhzz There are strict environmental and regulatory provisions against any kind of dumping from cruise-ships. However, on the positive side, there is a large and growing demand for sustainability, for environmentally friendly practices, and for whole-foods and plant-strong diets/menus. Many travellers nowadays want supermarkets, hotels, airlines, cruiseships, and restaurants to minimise waste: either compost it, give it to a composter, donate it, or repurpose it somewhere else in the menu for the day or the week.

@@brentshuffler1234 lol, that wasn't my point at all

Wrong thread!

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Would you live on one?

For one week

@@Hitherto90 If it was free hell yeah.

@@Hitherto90 I'd say no, but still, you have to admit that it's pretty incredible we make such a vehicle for pleasure

Except a sewer treatment plant!

David Belmonte the food was actually pretty good when I was there ngl

Id watch that shit

@@derickvo317 it looks delicious, but that dude just makes u doubt if something is delicious or not haha

That’s just plain good ole memeing right there

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miah ! Same

hospitality workers as its finest, in gods good will i might work on a cruise ship server you. :)

His happiness was fake. They are trained to fake smile and be nice to you.

this is a change for them to better their lives and lives of family. if you want to better your life , you always have to pay a price . no matter where you are in the world . when people ask me , how can i become rich . always tell them , you have to pay a price , time with family, working long hrs , doing what others are not willing to do , health.

It's never easy for most of the people who want to get a better life.

someone's still gotta load them and spot check them

They have a dishwashing pool, so you just throw them in the water... :D

Carl they still need to rinse them first

they toss it overboard

Paper plates: Let me introduce myself.

Wtf

Overused joke.

@@YYY-dw3qs Nah, its good :)

@Oliver Engholm it's called a *meme*

Bro trivago is such a meme now

Agreed!

It really is! I took a tour in the kitchen the last time I went, and it was super impressive.

I mean that’s kinda how it’s supposed to be. This is them simply working their day to day job while the passengers are on a very rare 1 week vacation that costed them a fortune, so of course it’s gonna be a big contrast. Obviously they work extremely hard tho.

This is why it is insane how some people can be so rude to service staff.

They only care about happiness because they want to make a profit, don't think that they really care about any passenger whatsoever (hence still running when corona started)

The ocean is pretty big

@PicklesNJack Yes They don't :-/

Carnival Corporation ships emitted nearly 10 times more SOx around European coasts than did all 260 million European cars in 2017. Royal Caribbean is estimated to have emitted four times more than the European car fleet.

@@TonyDootjes bruh you've gone on every thread and said this. Shush, no one cares.

@@thegeniusman8757 I care

Yeah insane amount of work hours

@@stardog2779 That's what I think about it

17 hour shifts everyday i used to work

All restaurant kitchens are hectic. I use to work at a catering company, and during the busiest times of the year, such as wedding season, and Christmas/New Years, it would get really crazy. I found it way too stressful and I stopped doing that.

@@louisejohnson6057 you're only stressed that much during the peak season. In cruise ships, everyday is hectic. Can you imagine how stressful it is during 4th of july, christmas, new year?

Jacquelin Mendez 4 months is false, for the asians it’s 8-10 months

but they get free food and get to live rent free.they are saving 60 to 70% of their salary on that alone.

Jacquelin Mendez And School teachers too.

Ikr

I sure hope they get it !

Once you get it down to a rhythm the only days you have to worry about are the days when you are expected to do inspections and audits where not only you have the people you are feeding but also the health inspector who will look for anything to ding you with. Worked in the kitchen as porter to service staff and I find myself looking for things to do.

I once went on a cruise, the endless good food was amazing.

Cooks are the most exploited crew on the ship. They're working very hard and get paid very little. I know that because i worked 6 years, and i get paid around $800/month. Plus, no tips. All the tips and praises goes to the waiters.

Sucks to be you, I back packed the world and did not need people kissing my ass to enjoy a vacation.

@@eltambulero2392 Sounds about right. I cooked at a truck stop and one, ONE waitress would give me a couple bucks now and then, the rest hoarded their ill gotten gains. I would offer that dishwashers are the most unappreciated link in any establishment, underpaid, over worked and if they get behind, so does everyone else.

Screaming and yelling. Throwing pans everywhere.

If he was any good he would sound the same. You guys watch to much t v. Get a life or come try working in my kitchen.

@@harryballz6740 .. I also work in a kitchen.

Harry Ballz I guarantee “your” kitchen isn’t even a quarter as big as this one

Dylan m

Easy, just take kilos of weed with you before boarding.

Adding propane storage and piping would add cost, mass, and complexity with little benefit for cooking. The French sauce cooked in copper pans aficionados may not like it, but they survive with electric stove made sauces.

Still it doesn't matter if you add water to a hot oil.

@@wino0000006 , I think that would be basic knowledge gained in a land based beginners cooking school before the staff got assigned to a ship. I can't imagine the chef getting completely untrained new hires that the chef has to train during a revenue trip.

HELLO

...did anyone ask for rezon?

Carnival Corporation ships emitted nearly 10 times more SOx around European coasts than did all 260 million European cars in 2017. Royal Caribbean is estimated to have emitted four times more than the European car fleet.

Where did you get the 4000 number from?

It said 1 thousand people

@@jetteraismabash4186 that's just the kitchen and dining area. You then have the bar staff, entertainers, housekeeping, general cleaners, engineers, captains crew, and a few lifeguards (if the entertainers don't do it).

It is quite literally a floating city. If you've never been on one it is crazy. Seeing how big it is in a video or picture isnt comparable to walking on the boarding platform or turning and seeing it as you walk down the port dock. They're massive and wicked cool.

I want to go on one

How much was it?

Same

Au Kai Ler i went with my family there were 4 of us and all together is was 5000$ so roughly 1250 per person

Lil jay 1 how long were you there?

It's for 8 months. 4 months is for higher position. Im a former royal caribbean pastry cook. My contract is 8months. No day off. 12-14hours per day.

Hell yea pay up I know I do

Sound like a deployment 😂 but yeah once you get in a groove of things 12 hour work days aren't bad

Jimhel Ramos how much did you make on those 8months? And after taxes?

Sounds like my military career. Get paid no overtime. All underpaid salary

These aren't buffets they are restaurants that cost $50 per person per meal so you don't get to fill up your plate. I'm sure there is waste but I'm also sure they want to save as much money as possible and adjust their orders to suit demands. I doubt it's any different than any other restaurant just at a huge scale.

cody keane Only a small number of people use the Restaurants where you pay extra. Most people use either the main restaurant or one of several buffets, both of which are ‘free’ to eat at. So you can bet your life there will be waste!

I would say it least 20% waste.

I went on a cruise and they actually compose a ton of the leftovers and put it into the ocean for the fish

I went on a cruise last year just like this cruise and ate nearly everything on my plate

Dont feel bad for the Chefs, feel bad for the laughably ignorant people like the very people who are doing this video

They get paid ur early income during that trip . Dont be sorry

ElderGod4 how you know it?

@@armenakbalasanov9074 you get paid rly rly good. Trust me ... Bit you also go through a lot of cocaine and pep

@@armenakbalasanov9074 10 hours a day, 7 days per week for 120 days straight. with 20$/h thats 24k$. And i think the chefs on that ship makes more than 20$/h. And on top of that all the extra money they make from benefits etc which is huge because they work almost all the time and no days off.

Not to be a buzzkill but perhaps limit your cruises since they're very bad for the planet

@@RK-ep8qy the universe is too big to care about our planet

@@parthmodha7504 that's good logic, knocking your house down is fine because there's an entire city of houses, you're the real genius of our time

@@RK-ep8qy If you couldn't tell..i was joking.

@@parthmodha7504 sorry

Thats the sad part. Running out of produce is never an option nor an excuse. Customer's satisfaction should be in 120%

You got to get what they want respectfully both sides

this is mostly true but has changed some in the last 5-8 years, they aren't quite as perfect as they used to be

Then why is it absurd?

You know how much it costs to be on one of these right?

John Smith Whats your problem today?

@John Smith You need go Amish.

John Smith Global warming isn’t real

Shut up

@John Smith jeez! Wrong video dude!

omg

Totally agree with you

Enough frozen food to make Gordon Ramsay's head explode. That lobster looked bad too.

Jeah ive worked in a butchery before and also the smell of meat cause u work for long hours it can disgust u no matter how fresh the meat is. Its depressing really

Yes yes yes yes yes. I absolutely hated the meat and fish butchery classes in culinary school because of everything you said. Cold kitchens, blinding bright lights every hour of the day, and generally monotonous (as opposed to working on the line). I think working with fish would be even more uncomfortable, since you’re likely working with a lot of ice to keep everything fresh. Much respect to anyone who butchers for a living

Same for any restaurant or supermarket these days. In the US, approximately 1 pound of food per person is wasted. I think focusing on this would bring a much more noticeable impact and would possibly be easier to do compared to convincing everyone to eat meat which is never going to happen.

Yes, it is estimated that up to 40% of all the food produced worldwide is lost or wasted somewhere: in the field, in handling, in storage, in processing, in retailing, in homes, and in service to customers. However, have you identified cruise-lines, airlines, restaurants, supermarkets, hotels, etc., that have become serious about minimising food-waste? E.g., donations, re-purposing in menus, better management of portion-sizes, etc.

It doesn't go in the trash...it gets fed to the fish of the sea.

Food isn’t put into garbage what happens to it is on the carnival Mardi Gras they use something similar to grey and black water they use bacteria to eat the food and what is left which is water is dumped out at sea. Another thing they can do is burn it but they would have to keep that on board which is something they can’t do at all ports of calls

@@ElloImNoodle Thanks for sharing that. Do you know this from working on that (or any other) cruise-ship? How safe is the effluent from the bacterial process of food-leftovers like this?

Does the gift shop sell edible panties.

@@malibustacy3606 Nope. So you better bring a few with you.

and Americans wonder why 68% of the population, men/women/children are OBESE. Pigs eating all day long. PLUS, I am sure these people are all being quite "sanitary" while on these ships. Not like you never see men leave the bathroom without washing their hands. No thank you.

demographic analysis is racist. so if theres more asian people they prepare more rice?

@@beamboy14526 Racist? You must be joking. It's called catering to your customers. Even hotels in Vancouver do it. They offer congee and many other Chinese dishes at the breakfast to cater to their Chinese guests.

they all have their own bathrooms in their cabins

Happened to my high school on their cruise to Mexico for spring break, luckily I wasn’t a spoiled rich kid so I never went in that cruise, but they said it was brutal

It’s happened before 😬

All that flushing at once would probably overload the plumbing.

Luckily the plumbing never overflowed because it was just a handful of people, sadly majority of that handful were my high schools group, but let’s just say that with 4 roommates in each cabins all or some having to use the bathroom. There was quite I fight in some of the cabins

sOuLs rInG And they work 7 days a week! I’m sure they’re paid well but geez, along with being away from home for months, thats crazy.

@@yin1170 They arent paid well, workers from phillipines and other asian countries are pretty much slave labor

sOuLs rInG I used to work as a chef de Partie on Carnival Cruises Miami. Allow me to explain to you how hectic and terrible life on the ship is. Morning / Breakfast shift - 2:30 a.m - 10:30 a.m By the time you wrap up it’s 11:00 a.m By the time you take a shower and go to sleep it’s 12:00 p.m Dinner shift reporting - 4:00 p.m - 11:30 p.m Next day repeat! Also you get only HALF A DAY OFF A WEEK. Now you can calculate the hours they make you work. They literally make you work like a slave. You will also have dark circles by end of two months, due to lack of sleep and rest. Also, your cabin is in the underwater compartments. So sleeping will be very hectic, you will also be swaying from side to side. People who work on the starter / cold sections have NO DAY OFF for a 10 months contract. But their shift is from 10am-10pm. No break apart from lunch and dinner. Salary - $3000 per month non tax. No over time or any bonuses. This is Carnival Cruises Miami. I’ve seen people come and quit the next day. Also taking all the storage to the galley only 2 people did that for 4000 people on board Carnival Cruises. Trust me, it’s hell on Earth!

@Bilbous Bagoda you are the one who has no idea.

@Bilbous Bagoda it's a fact bro..

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Off the people

@@hchickenz1138 well that took a big turn

Atleast they clean the plates tho

Underrated

The plural of fish is fish, "fishes" doesn't exist (sorry I had to be that guy but that's just common sense)

True! Always, always be gracious.

T3CHnoGAM3R man that sounds like the life

Is food included on what you pay for the cruise?

@@Chinaman-gw6ts yes! its all free

@@Medere76 speaking from experience? Hahahahaha I'm joking btw

@@user-sh8ms1kp1c even if you are hes not

Well, technically the people who run it all (cooks, cleaners, waiters and other service) probably get paid next to nothing. It's a lot of food, but divided up between a lot of people. So your money probably easily covers the cost of food and fuel, but they still choose workers willing to work for borderline illegal wages. But I assume it's more than they would make at home.

Gorden where you at broooo

Ramsay*

He’ll get thrown overboard

He couldn't!

@@chaneladriana6829 he’d throw himself overboard

TBH its really easy gettin laid on these ships too... With other workers I mean.

@@silversrayleigh8980 well I heard that happens between workers. But if it's a crew member with a passenger they could get fired on the spot

Most of that food is more buffet style, so it's not as bad as having to have the food ready simultaneously. They just keep replenishing the selections.

Even with 8 years under my belt and roles as head chef this gives me anxiety when I think about being dropped in lol

@@aewtx have you ever even been on a cruise? “Most of that food” is *not* buffet style. We cruise often,sometimes more than twice a year! We are not exceptional in eating in the _proper_ restaurants for each of our three meals daily! We eat breakfast in the restaurant, lunch most probably in the restaurant, late afternoon snack _may_ be on the lido deck, it may be afternoon tea. Dinner is absolutely in the restaurant. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, best stay quiet!

@@JulieWallis1963 You are taking my comment a bit too personally. It's definitely not something to get so mad over. Calm down. And my mother has been on a few cruises and told me about it.

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30,000 meals, 1000 staff, there isn't anything wrong about doing 30 meals a day.

Josh Atkinson I wonder if this or the navy ship cookers work harder.

Absolutely, I've worked on board The QE2 going across the Atlantic Sea in Hurricanes. VERY HARD WORK.

10 hour shifts for 4-6 months no break, yeah it's rough work. Working on a cruise ship is a new world

They are very much indeed...I have done 4 years on a River Cruises around whole Europe and it is also salvery...never ever more in my life...big respect for all of the staff on a big cruise liners...some of them have no other option...I feel sorry about them...I am a chef too...btw...