Lunch for 6500: Culinary Capers thinks inside the box
I spent a night with catering company Culinary Capers last month at its restaurant — Switch in the 798 art district — as the team put together 6500 box lunches for a conference at Wukesong Stadium the next day. This not only required a mountain of food but also days of kitchen preparation, two refrigerated trucks out front to store the meals, and an assembly line involving dozens of people that put together six options — Chinese, Indian, Southeast Asian, Korean, Japanese and Western. That’s a lot of Tupperware. Some photos from the night…
Food and art at Switch
Culinary Capers' Billy Kawaja explains the assembly line.
Culinary Capers' Debra Lykkemark (bottom left) leads the team.
The Caesar salad assembly line in action.
Two trucks were needed to handle all of the meals.
The kitchen survives to prepare another meal... or 6500.
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