How Much Food Does Vegas' Best Buffet Serve Every Day? This Much...

You can have pretty much anything (steak, sushi, breakfast, etc.) at some pretty awesome restaurants in Las Vegas, but a visit to Sin City isn’t complete without a trip to the buffet line. Especially the one at Caesars Palace, where a team of eight chefs at Bacchanal Buffet puts together a collection of about 500 dishes a day, and instead of dumping as much food as possible onto your plate cafeteria-style, the idea is to serve you an endless amount of smaller, but sweeter than usual, eats.  They totally pull it off, but it takes a shton of food. Here’s a look at what Bacchanal Buffet goes through in just one… single… day.

492lbs of shrimp

… or 120 times the amount of shrimp that the average American eats in a year
 

8,000 pieces of assorted dim sum

… and if each piece is served with a small cup of tea, that adds up to about
500 gallons
 

1,200 pieces of sweet shuck corn

… or the same amount of kernels on the largest ear of corn
 

996 marinated lamb chops

… and you probably need just 125 lambs to make that happen

1,000 three-ounce meatballs

… or enough to fill 167 cans of SpaghettiOs
 

353lbs of prime rib

… which would need to come from at least 50 cows
 

1,811 fresh shucked Blue Point oysters

… and if each one is 1in tall, you could stack ‘em 150ft tall (or as high as the Statue of Liberty replica at the New York-New York resort)
 

1,738lbs of crab legs

… and lucky you, since they are king crabs, you get a whopping 1,077 pounds of actual meat

1,440 whole eggs

… which would take the average chicken about 4.8 years to lay
 

97lbs of farm-raised sustainable salmon

… which, sadly, is almost 30 pounds less than the largest-ever wild Alaskan king salmon weighed
 

48lbs of sustainable ahi tuna

… or 154 cans of plain ol’ regular tuna
 

54lbs of sea bass

… or the same weight as an average 8-year-old child, or 164 pounds less than Cam Neely who played Sea Bass in Dumb and Dumber
 

80lbs of hash browns

… or enough to supply hash browns for 640 Big Breakfast meals at McDonald’s

369 macaroons

… made with 6,273 grams of sugar
 

261lbs of the signature beef brisket

… or roughly 10 cows worth (hopefully the same ones as the above mentioned ribs).
 

240lbs of chicken wings

… the hens laying all those aforementioned eggs have it way better than these 120 birds
 

888lbs of farm-grown peach wood for the wood-fired grill and J&R smoker ovens

… which you’re getting by chopping down 25 peach trees
 

1,600 sliders

… which is about the same amount of beef in 500 Burger King Whoppers

499 pieces of breakfast danish

… we're pretty sure the pastry chef ate the 500th piece
 

264lbs of watermelon

… or about 13 individual watermelons
 

240lbs of manila clams

… or the same weight as about 12 bicycles
 

150lbs of PEI black mussels

… which contains 63,560 times the recommended intake of zinc for the average person each day

60lbs of mozzarella cheese

… made from 30 gallons of milk
 

140lbs of crawfish

… or enough to feed about 210 people in a Louisiana crawfish boil
 

240lbs of clarified butter

… which adds up to 953,633 calories
 

(Only?) 1.15 gallons of freshly squeezed orange juice

… which is likely made from 28 oranges
 

120lbs of Nishiki sushi rice

… or the same weight of the woman who broke a world record for eating three 72oz steaks in one sitting

150lbs of roast duck

… which adds up to 56 ducks
 

40 gallons of pho broth

… or enough to fill the average American bathtub
 

80lbs of pork ribs

… which breaks down to about 40 racks of baby back ribs
 

1.15 gallons of cocktail sauce

… or nearly enough to fill ten 16oz bottles

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