How Chefs Feed 100,000 Michigan Fans At America's Biggest Football Stadium | Big Business
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- The University of Michigan's Big House is the biggest football stadium in the United States. In secret kitchens, 35 chefs make food for over 100,000 fans. But in a stadium over a century old, moving the food is a logistical nightmare. There's only one tunnel and one service elevator to cart all the food along. We caught up with chefs 24 hours before kickoff to see how they cook for football's biggest crowd.
0:00 Intro
1:15 Food prep
5:41 Why moving food is so difficult
7:12 Private suites
7:59: Making food during the game
11:48 How they deal with food waste
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How Chefs Feed 100,000 Michigan Fans At America's Biggest Football Stadium | Big Business
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I'm glad to hear that they donate the extra unsold food to local pantries.
Everyone does that. Its easier than throwing it away as no one has enough garbage cans.
@@stonewal316 Unfortunately not everyone
It's a tax write off for them; just another expense.
Unfortunately the reason companies prefer to throw their food away is that if they give it away and someone gets sick, they can probably sue the company. They don’t wanna suffer the risk :/ Such a shame when good food goes to waste rather than to those who’ll go hungry
A bit of misinformation in the comments.
Food is not donated, not because of liability, but because of cost or perishability. Someone has to pay to collect in an edible way, transport in a food safe manner from a mass event, potentially store and then distribute, and after all that cost, you only get what is offered, ie can a homeless mother use a day old bucket of mega spicy hot wings.
The tax write off is minimal; the goods were pre-tax anyhow. Again the limit is on distribution. It's not really a factor.
While there is donation, there is no implication that a lot is donated. Again, it's mostly pick through or unsafe. They are donating perishable unused pre-prepared mass goods when there are folks to take them; they are not scraping plates for food. In other woods, if any boxed tomatoes remain in the galley, they are free for the taking.
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.
They did it before, in the not so far past.
More to do with dystopian fad society and overindulgent mental infants like yourself simping for it.
Everything is easier to keep track of with modern technology. Including you.
@@larrydarnell6522 except cash thus why they went to cards
@@larrydarnell6522he says as he leaves a TH-cam comment...
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.
That's college football
There are 8 college football stadiums that sit over 100,000. Michigan's capacity is not only one of the largest in america but one of the largest in the world.
I’m in Tennessee. Our University’s Stadium holds 121,000.
@@mastiffmom2592 A Google search claims that the Neyland Stadium official capacity is "only" 101,915 people, since a 2022 renovation. Meanwhile, Michigan Stadium's official capacity is 107,601 (since a 2015 renovation)......
First time ever hearing about pilbara. Going to google it
I work at a concert Amphitheater with 16k capacity and it's a truly enormous operation. Literally cannot imagine what it would be like managing 100k people.
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.
unskilled labour is literally just a term thats used to describe labour that does not require a higher education or apprenticeship so yes, unskilled labour does exist
@@richtorum5136 but all labour requires skill, and this term is often used to demean and devalue low paying service jobs that are actually essential to running a society
@@Littlestraincloud You are a communist.
Training are not always done via text books.
someone misusing a term doesnt invalidate the correct meaning for the term, why should a society listen to what idiots say over the actual meaning of a term?@@Littlestraincloud
4:20 Chef Chris' office number is B00B. Well done!
was checking comments for this lol
And they show it on 4:20 second
Nice!
Saw it immediately 😂
It's B008
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
There are different clients within the 100,000. Chef is right in monitoring the food waste, especially in the suits where people paid a lot of money but also waste the most food. The typical concourse customers are easier to manage as they can be measure by the volume purchased and less exotic varieties.
Yeah but you do it more often. I used to work for Feld Consumer Products which I was in a different arena each week for 32 weeks a year for 7-10 shows a week with attendance on most shows between 3,000 to 5,000 a show. All of our stuff from our stands to the merchandise came on trucks. We were a small crew of around 30-50 people depending on the tour type of a new show or one that's been around and we're expecting to bring in all the income cause the ticket income mainly went to arena we were in so it was more affordable to our audience and them to spend their money on our merchandise. We were considered independent contractors so basically it was though we each had our own little business. It was very stressful at times but also satisfying cause of the experience.
@jamesrobinson1282 for sure, we had significantly more games no question. Throughout the season we will serve more overall than a college team, but it's still crazy to think about the prep and effort required to feed 20k, let alone 100k in a span of like 6 hours.
Hate Michigan but gotta respect that chef grind
@fredlin6303 oh absolutely. Food waste is an enormous issue in hospitality. Laws and regulations (which to be fair are necessary obviously) make it extremely difficult to even donate untouched food to say a food pantry or homeless shelter.
Basically impossible to avoid waste sadly but I will say at least our arena it was lime the #1 issue we tried to address. Huge profit increase if you can avoid throwing away 5k lbs of food every few weeks
@@patrickn8355what team?
8:50 "These workers are scooping popcorn out of trash cans" made me think they were using thrown out popcorn for a second 😆
they worded it wrong. I am in the same business and its just food safe containers.
@@GezusGaming If you throw trash in it, it's a trash can, if you don't it's a food container :D but that popcorn was in plastic bags in there I'm sure the only reason for them is to give a wide mouth so many hands can fill those boxes of popcorn.
@@Mike__BBig kitchens will have bulk ingredients like flour and sugar in wheeled trashcans.
That container is commonly used in food industry and is a food safe container.
Probably not the most elegant or appropriate way to describe how popcorns were being distributed. Surprise the editor allowed it to be posted as such.
It's so weird that a University has the biggest stadium in the US. Never happens anywhere else in the world
Its not the most expensive one tho. Dallas, LA, and Vegas have those
@@peach-pantherMoney seems to be an adequate way to make up for deficiencies in size. lol.
i believe college football has like 4-5 of the top 10 biggest in the world
@@DS-sh2loyea they do. It’s crazy. As big as soccer is there are only a couple stadiums in Europe that even crack the top 20 in size. The Camp Nou in Barcelona is almost 100k and Wembley is big but I think that’s it in Europe.
@@rizzorizzo2311 right it blows my mind
Cameron doesn't wait 40 mins for the elevator, he just stashes his cart and watches the game. Respect
stop snitching
@@DwayneSmithðß, y😢I,r c e. Yuk
Just hijacking this comment to say Americans are a bunch of fatasses. I went to a Madrid soccer game and they only had a lonesome concourse. Everyone whipped out their tiny homemade sandwiches at halftime. No obesity to be found. Source: Me an American fatty 😅
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.
It's actually not that spacious, people were just smaller back then so it's worse now.
@@BoSSS734 smaller lmao people are just fat now
@@CAP1VAN People are fatter today, yes. Due in part to all the additives in food now. But people are about 6 inches taller today than a hundred years ago. Also, the average life expectancy has almost doubled from about 40 years in 1900 to about 80 years today.
@@BoSSS734 The average life expectancy was always in the 60's or higher when you remove outliers. Namely - infant deaths. If you made it to 3, you probably made it to 60+, and that is true in most of recorded human history barring unique regions in unique periods suffering through unique circumstances.
@@techelitesareadisease8816not just infant deaths, deaths from birth to college age. Most people just didn’t live that long back then, even the people that survived to adulthood
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!
Just like death and taxes, people got to eat.
Fulfilling 😂
3:23 shows just how serious the rival is.
Ohhh, it goes deep.
GO BUCKS
It is mind boggling to me that most of the staff here are volunteers...
4:16 I started randomly laughing when I saw his room number omg😂😂😂
im surprised how far down the comments i had to go to see that mentioned haha
Holy moly wow that’s so much work and dedication
Massive respect for this chef and his staff.
Not an easy task at all, but somehow they get it done.
At 5:57, this guy is literally the Michael Jordan of general managers at University of Michigan 😅
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! 😁
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 4:20 That plaque says it all.
Dawg they caught me lacking 5:20 is me cutting pizza 🤣
Nice
You rule.
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! 😂
dude @ 10:33 “if you’re not walking around with this you’re mid” 🤣
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.
It really isn’t too bad tbh. Transporting food is the most difficult part. Concession workers have it the worst tbh. (I’m the dude pushing the cart btw)
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 went to a D2 school here in Texas and it is like that. I'm not 100% sure about Michigan but I'm fairly certain that it would be the same.
yeah, I had friends volunteer on gameday serving hotdogs and stuff
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.
Buy Sysco bulk and you’ll get that price to.
But good luck using it before it goes bad
Didnt you not see the hotdogs?
For me they didnt even looked eatable. Guess one cost like 10cent or so at max.
Rest looked ok, but the hotdog looked like rotten meat
@@PopeClemensIIXthey didn’t look cooked
@@PopeClemensIIX It's Michigan. Their fans don't eat hot dogs, they just suck on them.
It wouldn't be the entire trailer. 3-4 pallets would be about $20,000, and the truck would have other deliveries on the trailer.
I've been in the Stadium with 108,000 people surrounding me. It is an otherworldly experience.
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 🤓
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
Companies shouldn't have to trash the excess. Health & Safety § 114433. Donations made within the state are protected from liability according to the federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act. In addition, the state protects donations of food that is past-date, if evaluated by the distributor to be wholesome.
Assuming you were at Vegas, the food not consumed at most places is sold to a nearby pig farm and fed to the pigs.
I worked concessions at the Big House for a couple years on the suite level. It is pandemonium to say the least!
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!
They are Winning!
these guys are killin it
12:28 “Mark this one down a solid B plus…” Lol Chris is a OG
Shoutout to the Dishwasher ‼️
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
Respect to all these folks who work long stressful hours and do it with a smile
Props to these folks...hard work
Happy to see the excess food gets donated and not all tossed.
Man, these guys work hard! Gives me better appreciation for the stuff they do behind the scenes.
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…
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
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
Obligatory Go Blue! Super cool to see the BTS of a stadium I went to every week for a few years.
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.
come to ann arbor, there are a lot of communists
@@erikawwad7653 The Commies? They have a football team in DC, not ann arbor.
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 :)
That's really good to hear that the left overs don't go to waste.
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.
Oh man this brings back memory's of working at stadums and event centers in the kitchens
The best part of all of it was at the end. The yellow shirts in the truck. Classic
the donations
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!
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!
I'm impressed of this program and I say WOW!
"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.
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.
thats cool as hell. We have college sports in Colombia, But they're not this big, Crazy how they move the food.
Go blue! Thanks for all the hard work you all do ❤️
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 9:08🤢
Probably just boiled instead of grilled
An A+ Approval. I didn't know they were so clean, somebody make a mess already... lol. Approved.
At 4:20 the room number is BOOB xd
3:04 CHICKEN LOLLIPOPS? God bless the usa
It's actually a French invention, it's just a cooking technique where you cut the meat away from the bottom of the bone and roll it to the top before cooking. It's very common to do in restaurants. It makes the bone look clean other than the ball of drumstick meat at the top. It's mostly a presentation thing, it makes plating look nicer.
@@coachmcguirk6297 Neat. I've worked in food service in Canada for a good bit and have never seen these
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.
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?
Needing to reuse most of your footage twice during this video should've been a hint it was too long.
That they are making use of the leftovers for people in need vs trashing it, is A+
At 9:21, 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.
It's highway robbery.
Every stadium across the country
you act as if not every stadium in the country does this. literally every college and pro sports team does this....
Anyone else's first thought was "wow that brisket is ruined"?
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!
$50 an hour for cooking in a kitchen! Damn, that is high
yeah but it's like 150 hours/year
@@Imthefake Well, obviously you do a full-time job when not working this fab job
@@John_Smith_86 you need a full time job that let's you take time off to work another job, that's not easy
@@Imthefake Presumably, they are working in kitchens the rest of the time. Given the labour shortage, their employers are not really in a strong position
Makes sense considering how busy it can get and especially next week against Ohio State
4:16 BOO8 hahahahahahah
Honest hard working jobs! Well done everyone!
Props to these folks. Pretty cool insight what needs to be done
“If your not making a mess with the popcorn to make everyone clean up later your mid”…bruh your mid for making a mess😂
Those hot dogs look rancid
His office is in room B008. That is legendary.
Great team. Great team work. Win. Win.
I hope that food is composted and their recycling game is as good as the team.
It's America, what do you think happens to excess and uneaten food?
Green bag at the end when they toss it is a compost bag
Team hasn't won a title since 1997 they ain't that good
@@Saltytacoz They're still a top 5 team in the nation
@@48162342 out of the top 5 teams in the nation Michigan and Washington are the only 2 without a ring since 2000 lmao so what's your point
Speaking on behalf of all students in the student section, we were too drunk or too broke to buy it
Some hard working people. Go Blue!
very traditional way of conducting operations, notice how there is no use of any current technologies in their operations. that being said they do an amazing job to keep up with such demand.
The largest stadium in the US and they can’t install a second elevator?
It’s 100 years old. I’m pretty sure Ohio Stadium only has elevators in the skyboxes and South Stands.
@@dcviper985: Elevators have been around for 200 years, lol. They can easily be retrofitted into 100 year old buildings…I’ve seen it done a few times in my area.
@@rayray8687 they insist on using UM grads for the engineering work I guess…
If the university is making that much money.....surely they can pay everyone =(
Nope they exploit a Labor force of volunteers and pay a Charity pennies, because theyre worthless and cant pay workers a living wage
watching this video was more entertaining then any sports even could be
that's crazy man
That ain’t Micheal Jordan
By these standards I too am a chef!
u cant even just stand in a corner for 5 hours let alone woorking 12 hours
@@brawler8811I think he's talking about the quality of food which looks absolutely terrible.
@@thomaslequesne5475pizza looks fire and the burgers, hot dogs not so much. That's why they load them up with the onions and peppers n stuff. I didn't know they had buddys now. Haven't been in a while.
@@thomaslequesne5475 bro its basic concession stand food. what do you expect? a 3 course gourmet meal at a college football game?
4:19
look at the door plaque
... they knew exactly what they were doing lol
Wowee this looks like a job i'd never wanna do
I see we are now using the term chef EXTREMELY loosely
That sucks they only have 1 elevator to work with.. or they could just steal other stadium design since they dont have problem stealing things..
Awesome team work!! GO BLUE!!
I worked there in my early 20s as clean up crew and it was myself and 3 other people cleaning just about the whole place no joke
America is so capitalistic that majority of the staff here are volunteers
my father used to work there, it hasn't changed
as per America wages are shit too
They clean up the stadium with Connor Stalions and Blake Corums vacuum cleaners.