Inside Delta's $2 Million Renovated Airplane Meal Kitchen | WSJ Booked

Delta Airline’s largest hub is located in Atlanta, Georgia. We visited Delta’s domestic kitchen – one of the largest facilities they own – to see how they make thousands of first-class airline meals on an average day.

From preparing food to packaging thousands of meals in one day, how does Delta serve so many passengers so efficiently?

0:00 This kitchen in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport can prepare food for 350 planes in one day
0:29 How the staff prepare nearly 40 different meal components
1:36 How are so many meals cooked and packed before takeoff?
3:21 How Delta Airlines wants to grow and expand menus

Booked
Your trip may be booked, but there are hundreds of people and processes that help you travel to where you need to go. From airport logistics to cruise ship procedures, WSJ’s Booked peels back the curtain on the travel industry, guiding viewers behind-the-scenes through the lens of industry experts.

#Travel #Food #WSJ

[Eric_Luke]

The meals on Delta One are the alway a treat! The crazy fact that I can enjoy a gourmet lunch on tablecloth at 30, 000ft is not lost on me. Absolutely mind-blowing logistics running an airline.

[sherrinunya]

Long time Delta flight attendant here. These meals are amazing to us that they can sling them out so consistently! Bravo on a great job!

[traviswalstrom]

Some unsung heroes making our in flight meals right there 🎉

[tombolton]

Love this! So neat to see behind the scenes of processes we generally take for granted.

[rd]

Not gonna lie, their food looks great. Better than what i'm used to on a plane.

[ceooflonelinessinc.]

Another fantastic video, thank you WSJ!

[stevenhudson]

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, It's built on fraustration. it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

[ropro]

Lol, hard to believe they're slicing cherry tomatoes one at a time at an operation like this. Have they not seen the deli container lid hack? 😆

[sz]

Delta was my airline I rode on from 2011 to 2016 and once in 2017. The meals on economy class was probably sub par quality, I rode Delta first class from PVG to DTW in 2011 on Boeing 747 and it was excellent which had scallop and ice cream. I would like to ride with Delta again when given the chance for 2024.

[pipegarmich]

Great video, very informative and the food is incredible

[koladejoseph]

"7 days a week, all year round". Wow!!! Kudos!!! 👏🏽❤

[paulg]

It's good for all the automation. I wonder what their fall back plan is in case robot or a truck fails.

[gamingbtc]

Glad to see Delta is innovating constantly. How about that constant innovation where you make the seats smaller and reduce leg room by 1 inch every year. Brilliant company.

[cazarilolsen]

Always find this kind of thing interesting.

[NewrestGroup]

Thank you for sharing our people’s know-how in Atlanta ! It is important to present the whole supply chain, logistics, innovations and safety steps involving our work, and you did it greatly.

[_w_w_]

I think we US consumers expect so little that this can wow so many people to comment. Delta caters 12 or up to 18 or so meals per flight for only specific flights. Meaning First Class passengers of a flight that's over 2.5hr or so of distance, and only at designated meal times. That and a few international flights Delta offers. Go to Asia, EVERY FLIGHT EVERY PASSENGER gets a meal, even on a 50 min short flight. Those airlines mostly operate widebody aircraft that holds 300+ passengers per flight versus the smaller narrowbody Delta uses. Their caters put out way more meals than this Delta kitchen and at better quality. Any of the Asian airlines' economy meal is on par if not better than Delta's First Class meal. Same for the Middle Eastern airlines... All of them have much more intricate meal components and better presentation than Delta's.

[Jblast]

school lunches can used this plus military bases

[SaiyaCIT]

Su hermosa voz es suficiente regalo para la humanidad

[MN]

I soo wondered this just the other day!

[kartikpandey]

Nice to hear a Briton on an American channel