Big Kitchens: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Big Kitchens explores the mind-boggling logistics, colossal cuisine and extraordinary characters behind the world's biggest, most extreme kitchens and restaurants. Each episode visits a different restaurant to reveal its secret workings – from the world's biggest truck stop to the US Army's largest dining area…from a jumbo jet catering facility, to the biggest kitchen cruising on the open ocean. We visit these monster kitchens on one of the busiest days in their calendar when they cook their biggest banquets.

We find out what makes each kitchen tick – the larger than life characters – the cooks and chefs; the bespoke technology behind the cooking; the dazzling logistics involved in seating so many people; the overwhelming volume of ingredients, and the power needed to cook it all. We discover the secrets behind their finest dishes and uncover the facts and stats that keep each extreme restaurant running.

Series details

• Title: Big Kitchens
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2015-08-31
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-10-15
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: FYI
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 2994

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-08-31; final listed air date 2015-10-15.

Source and licence

Adapted from Big Kitchens on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.