Humm: Eleven Madison Park produced 5,000 relief meals daily during the pandemic
Daniel Humm · How I Built Resilience: Live with Kyle Connaughton and Daniel Humm · May 28, 2020 · at 17:29
Chef Daniel Humm discusses the scale of relief meal production across Eleven Madison Park and its fast-casual restaurant kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“Yeah, so we're making 3000 meals a day here at 11 Madison, and by this Monday we activated a second kitchen of our fast casual restaurant, and we're Doing 2000 additional meals, so we're producing 5000 meals a day right now.”
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