Big Kitchens

Bob Chinn's Crab House cooks up 900 king crabs and 1500 steaks every week, feeding over 12,000 guests. Since it opened in 1982, Bob Chinn's has exploded into a 700-seat crab castle, serving up to 4000 starving surf n' turf lovers daily. But being 800 miles from the nearest ocean, this crack team of crab crackers must arrange a fresh seafood delivery from the airport every day.

El Pinto, le plus grand restaurant néo-mexicain d'Amérique, est entièrement consacré au chili. Basée à Albuquerque, son immense cuisine peut servir jusqu'à 3 000 personnes par nuit. Ouverte en 1962, les frères John et Jim Thomas, connus sous le nom de « Chile Twins », ont repris l'entreprise familiale en 1990 et ont passé des décennies à perfectionner leurs plats infusés au piment.

In San Antonio, just a few miles from The Alamo, Big Lou's pizza and pasta restaurant proves everything really is bigger in Texas. Serving burgers fifteen times bigger than a Big Mac and a pizza five feet wide, demand for their super-sized food is just as BIG.

C'est leur journée la plus chargée. Deux grands événements sont réservés dans les salles de banquet et le buffet est complet toute la journée et toute la nuit. Les immenses cuisines du Nawaab doivent fonctionner correctement. Avec 10 fours, un grille-pain qui permet de préparer 400 pains naan par heure et un grill pouvant cuire 2 000 brochettes par jour, l'équipe espère répondre à la demande.

Opened in 1880 this old establishment was one of the first restaurants to put creole cuisine on the international stage. Today it has expanded into a 400 seat gourmet castle renowned for it's exquisite southern seafood cuisine and fine dining. 10 tons of the freshest fish and shrimp are cooked up ever year. Commander's Palace creates mouth watering seafood sensations on a massive scale.

In the heart of Brooklyn, New York City, is a legendary 450-seat restaurant serving up cheesecake on an epic scale - Junior's. Every month their immense kitchen churns out 150,000 cheesecakes and 25 tons of pastrami to feed over 90,000 customers.

Based in the heart of Dubai, like the airport itself, the Emirates Catering Facility runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Each day a team of 520 chefs turns out around 170,000 meals to cater for around 400 flights, and every ingredient is ordered by the ton. Today, the team are facing a busy flight plan packed with sold out flights, with thousands of hungry passengers to feed.

In Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the Falcon Inn is one of the US Army's largest dining facilities. With just three manic 90 minute servings for breakfast, lunch and dinner, this monster cafeteria is run with military precision. Open seven days a week, the 538 seat Falcon Inn is always packed. A 105 strong team makes sure that eight service stations are stocked to satisfy the biggest of appetites.

In the Caribbean, one of the largest floating kitchens is dishing up fine dining for over three and a half thousand cruise ship passengers. The tireless staff on the Regal Princess work across 20 huge galleys to provide round-the-clock food that is just as stunning as the holidaymakers' tropical surroundings. Launched in 2014, the 1000ft long Regal Princess is a true leviathan.

Nous visitons différents restaurants pour découvrir leurs secrets de fonctionnement, du plus grand relais routier du monde à la plus grande salle à manger de l'armée américaine, en passant par un gros avion de restauration ou la plus grande cuisine de l'océan. Nous voyons ces immenses cuisines les jours les plus chargés lorsqu'elles préparent leurs plus grands banquets.

En plein milieu de l'une des plus grandes autoroutes d'Amérique se trouve le plus grand relais routier du monde, l'Iowa 80. Il abrite l'immense Iowa 80 Kitchen, une gigantesque machine à préparer des repas qui a nourri plus de 18 millions de clients au cours de ses 50 ans d'histoire, et ses fidèles clients camionneurs ne cessent de revenir.

In the heart of the Las Vegas strip is one of the world's biggest and most expensive hotels, the award-winning MGM Bellagio. Built in 1998 at a wallet-busting cost of $1.6 million, the Bellagio boasts nearly four thousand rooms, and is well used to feeding thousands of customers every day.

L'un des plus grands restaurants de Las Vegas, le Brooklyn Bowl, prépare trois mille plats par nuit. Piste de bowling, salle de concert et restaurant king-size réunis en un seul endroit, il propose des recettes primées, attirant des clients du monde entier. Qu'il s'agisse de shooters à œufs, de pommes de terre à croquer ou de leur désormais légendaire poulet frit.