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Naval Academy getting new galley

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 03/24/10

After cooking 70,000 meals a week for 40 years on the same equipment, the Naval Academy is getting a new kitchen.

TOP: Federico Tubaya, who has worked for 30 years in the Naval Academy galley, removes a cart of cooked hamburgers from a new oven yesterday. The oven is in a temporary kitchen that is being used until December 2011, when the $41 million renovation of the main galley will be complete. The new ovens cut cooking time by as much as 50 percent.
BOTTOM: The new temporary kitchen, erected over the past three months, is next to the Naval Academy dining hall.

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The $41 million renovation will include all-new equipment and a new 70,000-square-foot building, to be built on the site of the existing galley.

The renovation is scheduled to be completed by December 2011, academy officials said yesterday.

Until then, the academy will rely on a temporary 27,000-square-foot kitchen next to King Hall to prepare meals for the 4,400-member Brigade of Midshipmen.

"All that equipment was in there before I came in 1978," said Commandant of Midshipmen Capt. Matt...

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. - 2010-03-24 15:10:00

Put the old equipment in the market house!

It's nice to see the longevity of people working at the Academy. Working thiry years in a kitchen is unheard of.

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