The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Spends $1 Million A Week On Groceries

The world’s largest cruise ship –The Symphony of the Seas - shells out more than 30,000 meals a day for over 6,600 passengers who board each week, according to an Insider report.

Passengers aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship may eat anywhere up to eight times a day -giving the staff a hefty load of food options to produce.

“You have to calculate that is breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus snacks, plus at night, plus all 24 hours, food all around, and that never stops,” Allan Gentile, development chef of Culinary Innovation, told Insider. “The quantity is crazy.”

Jaret de Silva, the ship’s inventory manager, has a $1 million grocery budget each week to stock up the ship’s 23 restaurants. that usually results in 30 trucks with 500 pallets worth of inventory, equating to more than 600,000 pounds of food and drinks, brought to the ship in the Miami port on a weekly basis.

Kitchens on the ship operate nonstop and are comprised of a culinary team of more than 1,000 people who cook for the guests while the boat is continuously moved by waves.

At the bottom of the ship, there are prep kitchens - including the butcher, veggie cutting room, and fish-thawing box - where food items are assembled. From the prep kitchens, food is then moved to the main galleys before being cooked and served to patrons.

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There are 36 kitchens, also known as “galleys,” on the ship. Twelve of them are specialty restaurants. And across each of them, there are approximately 100 different menus each week developed at Royal Caribbean’s Miami headquarters.

The restaurants cater to all different price points, to match the ship’s wide range of passengers.

“We had the penthouse, we had the suite, we had the main restaurant, we had a specialty restaurant. We have all the choices. So, we tried to please everybody, to make sure everybody finds what they’re looking for. You need to have organization in the kitchen. So, this all comes with experience to work in the cruise line,” Rijo was quoted as saying.

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