RIO DE JANEIRO — The dining room for the athletes’ village at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will be bigger than two football fields, and the kitchen being built in the same enormous tent will be as large as one.
The setting hints at quite a spread when the games open in just under three months.
“We want to make sure when there is a medal or a record, part of that record also goes to our food team,” said Marcello Cordeiro, Rio’s director of food and beverages.
At its peak, the athletes’ village kitchen will prepare 60,000 meals a day, produced from daily shipments of 460,000 pounds of raw ingredients — all served up on four million biodegradable plates for 18,000 athletes, coaches and staff members.