USS Midway  10            7-2014

 

 

 

Pilots briefing room.
 

 

 

Pilot flight simulator.
 

 

 

With 4500 people on board, the mess hall never stopped. There were approximately 225 cooks and they served 10 tons of food per day, 13,500 meals a day, 10,500 cups of coffee at a time, 4,500 pounds of beef per meal when served, 3,000 pounds of potatoes per day, 1,000 loaves of bread a day, 20,000 pounds of dry provisions and 500 pies when served. The Midway also had it's own butcher shop, 2 bakeries, 1 vegetable prep room, 15 storerooms, 5 freezers and 4 chill boxes.
 

 

 

The ships capacity for consumable goods were - 1,500,300 pounds of dry provisions, 205,000 pounds of vegetables, 240,000 pounds of meat, 66,300 pounds of dairy, 16,000 pounds of coffee. Daily cost of feeding the crew in 1976 was $10,000.
 

 

 

Today's menu includes:
 

 

 

Real-to-real movie projector.
 

 

 

Cookbook
 

 

 

Now that's a lot of food!
 

 

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