Food catering stats for cruise ships are insane:
▫️Top 3 cruise lines (Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian) spend $2.5B a year on food
▫️The largest ships (5x Titanic) serves 100,000 meals a day for 7,600 passengers and 2,300 crew
▫️Ingredients for a week-long cruise are $1.5m including 25,000 line items, 15,000 lobster tails and 400 tonnes of bottled water (ships serve about 15,000 lbs of protein a day)
▫️Each passenger has allotment of >10 meals a day (“A running joke in the cruise-ship industry is that passengers gain a pound a day,” per The Economist)
To control costs and reduce waste, cruise ships use special software (Crunchtime) to estimate meals that can be exact as “we need 1,422 portions of calamari tonight”.
There are over 300 chefs (~13% of entire crew): “They work seven days a week for the entire length of their contracts, which sometimes last as long as eight months. The chefs are usually from emerging markets such as the Philippines, Indonesia, India and South Africa.”
The way one chef describes the job of catering on a cruise ship: “I always say that the captain is the brain of the ship. The chief engineer is the heart of the ship. We are the blood.
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Full read from The Economist here: https://economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-titanic-task-of-catering-on-cruise-ships…

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邮轮餐饮的统计数据令人瞠目结舌：

▫️三大邮轮公司（皇家加勒比、嘉年华、挪威邮轮）每年在餐饮上的花费高达25亿美元。

▫️最大的邮轮（相当于泰坦尼克号的五倍）每天为7600名乘客和2300名船员提供10万份餐食。

▫️一周航程的食材成本高达150万美元，其中包括2.5万种菜品、1.5万条龙虾尾和400吨瓶装水（邮轮每天大约提供1.5万磅蛋白质）。

▫️每位乘客每天的餐食配额超过10份（据《经济学人》报道，“邮轮行业有个玩笑，说乘客每天都会长一磅”）。

为了控制成本和减少浪费，邮轮公司使用专门的软件（Crunchtime）来估算餐食需求，精确到“我们需要多少”。 “今晚要供应1422份鱿鱼圈。”

船上有300多名厨师（约占全体船员的13%）：“他们每周工作七天，合同期长达八个月。这些厨师通常来自菲律宾、印度尼西亚、印度和南非等新兴市场。”

一位厨师这样描述邮轮上的餐饮工作：“我常说，船长是船的大脑，轮机长是船的心脏，而我们就是船的血液。”

*** 完整文章请见《经济学人》：https://economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-titanic-task-of-catering-on-cruise-ships…

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