How West Point makes over 13 000 meals a day (if you ever wondered)

Many older USNA grads have fond memories of their food when the Navy’s culinary “A” school for new Navy enlisted mess cooks was based there, almost everything was scratch-made, and the Navy Dairy Farm provided milk, butter and outstanding ice cream. Lunch was a hot meal.

Now it’s outsourced to a contractor, and still a major evolution each day to feed 4200 mids.

Enjoyed this insight into West Point, thank you!
 
1,200 - 1,500 calories per day? They're starving those poor kids. ;)

I think she meant per meal.
 
I specifically ordered the pasta al dente. Can I see the manager, please?
 
Capt MJ said:
Many older USNA grads have fond memories of their food when the Navy’s culinary “A” school for new Navy enlisted mess cooks was based there, almost everything was scratch-made, and the Navy Dairy Farm provided milk, butter and outstanding ice cream. Lunch was a hot meal.

Now it’s outsourced to a contractor, and still a major evolution each day to feed 4200 mids.

Enjoyed this insight into West Point, thank you!
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I was at USNA during the Navy Dairy Farm era. Vivid memories of fresh churned ice cream in foil tins during plebe summer. Also big trays of peel and eat shrimp during holiday meals. Powdered sugar donuts as soon as we went into SDBs and BBQ ribs as soon as we shifted into whites (usually for lunch before a march over).
On the other hand, healthy food like yogurt, salad, and fresh fruit was relatively hard to come by.
 
Emsa said:
This popped up on You Tube a couple of days back. I know food quality and quantity are perennial questions on the forums so this might offer some insight.

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I thought the meal looked familiar, then realized this was filmed when I was there for a counselors' conference.
 
Emsa said:
This popped up on You Tube a couple of days back. I know food quality and quantity are perennial questions on the forums so this might offer some insight.

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I feel like a better question is how does any school make 3 meals per capita per day. There are schools way bigger than WestPoint. I.e., Liberty University has 110,000 students.
 
aetosArmy said:
I feel like a better question is how does any school make 3 meals per capita per day. There are schools way bigger than WestPoint. I.e., Liberty University has 110,000 students.
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Most of Liberty's students are virtual. Other colleges have lots of commuters or at least off-campus students who would not eat on campus every meal. But, in general, I think larger colleges have a dining hall that is open for periods and folks eat at various times within that period.. That spreads out the pain. Likewise, there are generally multiple grab/go or short order type places spread along the campus to prevent bottlenecks.
 
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