ORLANDO, Fla. – When you bite into a Mario Burger in Super Nintendo World or fish and chips in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, you’re getting more than the ingredients listed on their Universal Orlando Resort menus.
You’re getting a taste of the resort's state-of-the-art Production Kitchen, one of the most impressive things guests never see backstage on the campus of the new Epic Universe theme park.
“The PK or Production Kitchen and bakery touches pretty much every single restaurant outlet of Universal in some shape or others,” said Chef Jens Dahlmann, vice president, Culinary Operations at Universal Orlando. “For Red Oven Pizza (Bakery) in CityWalk, it might be only making their Neapolitan-style pizza dough. For Big Fire, it might only make the chili, but other locations are truly relying on the Production Kitchen to help them just open and run efficiently.”
USA TODAY was invited behind the scenes to see how.
One of first pieces of equipment highlighted on the PK tour was a huge lift that can hoist and sift a 2,200-pound bag of flour.
