The United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, is the elite college for officer candidates. It has at least 4,000 cadets, all who go through both academic and physical training at the same time. Feeding these students and the faculty means preparing around 13,000 meals a day. That much food requires huge vats and advance planning. But what makes West Point notable is the efficiency. All the cadets arrive for meals in formation at the same time, and must finish eating within 25 minutes. The schedule allows for no lags or screwups, and every member of the kitchen staff and the cadets themselves have specific duties to get it all accomplished in time. The plan goes off like clockwork, three times a day.
The dietician said that they provide between 1,200 and 1,500 calories a day to each student. That will certainly keep them on the skinny side, as the average American adult consumes more than 3,000 calories a day! But most likely she actually meant for each meal, since they are eating hearty portions.
Sunday, July 02, 2023
Mealtime at West Point
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I ate there. In high school we had an excellent gymnastic team (I was the manager not a gymnast). We made a trip to West Point to compete against their team and ate in that very impressive dining hall with the full end wall painting. They put us at a table by ourselves which we only took up half the seats but the table was set like all of them with trays of milk cantons, rolls and condiments.
11500 calories a day? Holy cow!
Oops! That was a typo. Fixed now.
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