Inside Qatar Airways - How do they make 200,000 Airplane Meals a day?
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Published 2024-01-13
My first stop is at the hot kitchen. Executive chef Decha showed me around the busy kitchen theatre with a lot of action taking place. QACC uses some automation to prepare food such as a rotating omelet cooker, grill bacon machine and special oil fryers. I also visited the cold kitchen for appetizers, salads and the pastry section.
After the food is cooked, it goes into chillers before arriving at portioning and packaging for flight. At the tray build-up area, new trays and portioned food were then loaded onto the cleaned trolley. All catering was then kept chilled before being taken by high-loader truck into the airplane. I follow the catering loading onto a Qatar Airways B777.
Last, I tasted some of the Business Class food at the catering center and met Qatari chef Noof Al Marri. She introduced me to her signature chicken machboos dish. At the end of the tour, I was shown how they’re treating all the food wastage from production by turning food waste into water.
All Comments (21)
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My channel promotes commercial aviation. 2 years ago, I started a series called “Airlines Uncovered” to cover more behind-the-scenes such as the operation or catering of an airline. Qatar Airways has provided access for me in this video to show their operation “as is” from a discovery and neutral angle. This is not a paid PR campaign.
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These workers ARE the TRUE MASTERCHEFS! Hands down.....
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An absolute insane operation. Wow I did not expect this to be so grand. Qatar really goes above and beyond.
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This is absolutely mind blowing I never really gave much thought to the food production of major airlines. Great video Sam!!
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The scale of the work that goes into each flight is massive. Thank you for this perspective.
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My husband and I recently traveled in Qatar airways flight from Delhi - Doha-Istanbul. What stood out for both of us was the delicious food. Good job team
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watching this gave me flash backs of all those that were affected by covid19, its good to see everyone back to business. god bless
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I'm so proud to be a part of this great kitchen QACC. I was worked as finance officer / accountant making payables and receivables, finance accounting closing. You can't imagine the number of vouchers & invoices. 2 days i need for segregation of all invoices.my colleagues Mrs. Shashikala still there.... Good Wishes all of them.
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Love behind the scenes operations of air travel. Very complex, modern & clean. Gives me faith in eating airline food.
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seeing mass production is always fascinating, but when it's high end airline food, it's especially incredible to watch. Thanks Sam, great video!
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It makes sense that they would need a massive operation to feed all their passengers but this is pretty mind blowing. This is SO much food every single day. Incredible. The way they have every single process down to a science is fascinating. Awesome video thank you Sam
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Qatar is such a tiny country and yet the airline and its catering company is a gargantuan colossus in the flying realm. Fantastic video and insightful visit.
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Thank you for showing us the preparation of food we eat onboard. Kudos to all the crew! 🙌🏻
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Thank you for sharing your experience about the QACC facilities, it give me a new perspectives about how mass food production is operated.
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I love this. This WAY behind the scenes content is great. It's amazing to see how much time and manpower goes into what gets served on your tray. Thanks to Sam and Qatar Airways
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Everything looks like it's made from scratch. Incredible!
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I love vídeos from Airlines Catering. Thanks Sam! Greetings from Brasil my good friend.
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What an incredible journey! A great amount of time, food, people and processes are taken to prepare our food onboard. thanks for sharing this
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Amazing video Sam. A huge well done to Qatar Airways for cooking such delicious food. Keep it up!! 😍😍😍
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Sam! Please follow the rules and mask up when you go into the kitchen. especially when you are standing over the food!
