We knew that the new Meadowlands had to have a chef in there somewhere but we never really thought about how many it takes to feed a stadium, until now. The answer? According to executive chef Eric Borgia: "For a 1 PM game, we’ll have 200 chefs onboard by 6 AM. But I mean the production starts throughout the week. Like the roast pork production starts on Tuesday, the meatball production is a constant ongoing thing. There’s a crew of about 12 people just literally hand-rolling meatballs. We did have the opportunity for a manufacturer to make them for us, and we did a tasting of them and they’re just not the same." And now you know.
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