I heard food isn’t like this for all crew, only for higher class crew. I am going to be starting my first contract with Norwegian soon and I sure hope it looks like this. Happy crew makes for a happy ship! Plz read more P.S I am now starting my 2nd contract everyone so please stop telling me it’s not like this. I know now, thank you!
Hey Morgan I got a question for you. How did you get a job for Norwegian? What kind of experience do you need to get a job on a cruise ship ?What job did they hire you for ? And if you don’t mind answering what is the pay ? I want to work on a cs so I want to know a few stuff before I do
@@pedrohernandez4887 they did an online zoom meeting for us and when going through all the slides I was interactive and made sure I stood out compared to everyone else! That’s how I got the job, I also was hired for the Servers assistant position. Make sure you are funny, be yourself but also out going. Stand out from everyone and make sure you have some experience in the position you apply for! GOOD LUCK
Good Luck hope you land a good spot. As a cruise traveler I have met many staff on board. You will probably meet a lot of cruise goers if your cruise line does scavenger hunts onboard the ship on sea days.
@@francisfernandes9435 sure it is. They have different levels and qualities of foods depending on your class level of employee. First class employees like singers and comedians that are difficult to replace get those perks. Janitors and engineers eat the leftovers in down in the hole.
Yes this is what it was like when I worked on a cruise ship here in Scandinavia. 24/7 buffet in the staff area. I sneaked in my sister on one of my 2 week shifts and she lived like a king on board using my access card while I worked 18 hours a day. Good times
@@annea5781 Yes I remember having to sleep with my legs up against the wall to give them proper rest between the shifts, it was hard work! And so much fun. Never laughed so much in a job 🥰🥰 I bet they’d have fired me on the spot had they found out but I was young and saw it all as an adventure, why not share the best of it :)
I cooked on a ship as a part of my education one semester. It was so much fun and enjoyable for crew morale that they offered me a job 3 different times. Even the Captain offered to write a personal reference. What a fond memory. 20 years ago and feels like yesterday. ;)
It’s clean etc but they are not getting expensive cuts of steak & lobsters 🦞 Buffet part is just generic salad bar plus nice deserts Looks better than normal buffet cus it’s not a mess etc
Crew food varies from ship to ship and cruiseline to cruiseline. Yes this is standard fare for crew. Officers generally do have an officer mess but they are also allowed to eat in the guest buffet so they mostly do that (performers and other frontfacing jobs ie staff are also allowed to eat there). yes standard fare is rice, stewn, beans, salad, pasta, etc. most of the crew is asian so there is a lot of rice!
That’s not what the food looked like on the boat that I worked on, I use to bring groceries on with me because of how bad the food was on the ship or I ate out.
been with celebrity which is in the same umbrella with Royal and yes this is what crew mess looks like,. some older ships still runs and the set up is still old school but the food in general is the same and all crew have the same access to everything except guests areas.
@@Jenni-Martikainen i am from India. We don't have such salad bars here. And salads r expensive here. So can't enjoy them as much as i like. Unless i am making it at home.
You forgot to say staff can eat with passengers. But the crew gets to eat later anything was left from every sitting. Not left overs but partially the same was during the meal. Not bad anyway!
Even the buffet on the employee level is fabulous. They do put that spirit of presentation on everything. That is probably because you can’t have staff practicing what to do in a regular Buffay and then have a different standard for staff. It would be very confusing for kitchen stuff.
When the cost of the food is mostly procurement and logistics, spending that little bit of extra on making it really good makes a lot of sense, because happy crew members do better work.
I've been on a cruise. Most of the crew wasn't from the U.S. Not that it mattered. I wouldn't have minded crew food. The lines above deck were always long.
my uncle was working at the kitchen for a cruise before and now for a cargoship. The food they make for the crew is pretty similar for both types of ship.
oh man... why did I click on this? I'm so hungry and don't really want to fix what we have in the house. I have "fried rice" riced cauliflower, but pad Thai sounds awesome. I've got bagel with cream cheese & lox, I could bake a potato with all the toppings... I'd LOVE a fresh fruit plate!
I still find it hard to believe just how much these ships can hold… between all the food for all the guests and workers, and even just down to the amount of fresh water these ships can hold. Imagine enough water to VERY comfortably suit thousands of people. Do they use the machines that convert salt water to fresh water, or is it one massive holding tank?! Anyone have the answer?
i remember my aunt told a story of her working on a big boat for a few months and got sick of the food cause they've been eating only curry for the last few months cause the ships chef was indian lmao
That's what I was thinking. Come to think of it, this is probably why we're seeing more vids like this. A lot of cruises are still under-booked, but they're buying just as much food.
If I was single you bet I would love to work on a cruise ship. my only problem is I have a small parrot and she is my baby. she loves to Travel though and goes everywhere with. Shopping, eating out, doctors appts. for me, the dentist, where ever. and I know they wouldn't let me take her. I don't know what I would do without her, she loves people, everyone and I mean everyone!
@@yamkaw346 sorry but regular crew members are not eating like that. And what your knowledge about this? You seen some episodes on the Discovery channel?!
@@stefanponcin911 so who do you think we should believe the guy who shows no evidence of his statements or the guy who's showing evidence of his statements?
it's like those mining towns where you're paid in company credits and you shop at the company store and live in the company town... reminds me of that...
I imagine it is a lot like being a casino employee. The staff meal looks fabulous, even though it's all leftover stuff that sat aht for a few hours for the guests first.
I love salad bars. You get all the goodness plus some have pasta.. I guess the figure you all are doing your jobs right so they reward you with yummy food. This is how it should be.
Cruise ships have an obscenely high food poisoning rate because of the temperatures/food served in these buffet-style arrangements, left out for long periods, inadequate waste disposal and conditions in the kitchens. Huge amounts of sugar and salt are used to try and offset the risk of the food spoiling. You might think this looks pretty but scratch beneath the surface... Also all of that fruit looks underripe.
Little did he know... those desserts are all the ones people have sneezed on/kids with booger fingers have touched and the cruise line refuses to serve to guests
Reminds me of a prison when the inspectors are in town and they roll out the best food. Only in this case it’s pretty boy is making a video on cruise food with the lines blessing so they roll out the best buffet.
Awesome food selection, however, everything in life comes with a price. Cruise staff members work 12+ hour shifts. Nowhere to go while on the sea, etc.
On other cruse lines the crew mess look like prison food, that looks good. Feeding your crew well keeps morale and health up which is good for everyone.
He's a performer that's why he gets food like this
I was gonna say my dad goes on a lot of cruises and talks to the staff and that’s not how the staff described it. Not to mention their living quarters
but what is he performing. dude sounds annoying af
@@kutie216 this is also a brand new ship
@@somethingsomething404 Yeah makes sense. From what I’ve heard most cruise ships employ people from foreign countries,l
Wow, so it's pretty classist just like the Navy.
I heard food isn’t like this for all crew, only for higher class crew. I am going to be starting my first contract with Norwegian soon and I sure hope it looks like this. Happy crew makes for a happy ship! Plz read more
P.S I am now starting my 2nd contract everyone so please stop telling me it’s not like this. I know now, thank you!
Hey Morgan I got a question for you. How did you get a job for Norwegian? What kind of experience do you need to get a job on a cruise ship ?What job did they hire you for ? And if you don’t mind answering what is the pay ? I want to work on a cs so I want to know a few stuff before I do
@@pedrohernandez4887 they did an online zoom meeting for us and when going through all the slides I was interactive and made sure I stood out compared to everyone else! That’s how I got the job, I also was hired for the Servers assistant position. Make sure you are funny, be yourself but also out going. Stand out from everyone and make sure you have some experience in the position you apply for!
GOOD LUCK
The food for crew is not like this..This may be a event .
Good Luck hope you land a good spot. As a cruise traveler I have met many staff on board. You will probably meet a lot of cruise goers if your cruise line does scavenger hunts onboard the ship on sea days.
@@francisfernandes9435 sure it is. They have different levels and qualities of foods depending on your class level of employee. First class employees like singers and comedians that are difficult to replace get those perks. Janitors and engineers eat the leftovers in down in the hole.
Yes this is what it was like when I worked on a cruise ship here in Scandinavia. 24/7 buffet in the staff area. I sneaked in my sister on one of my 2 week shifts and she lived like a king on board using my access card while I worked 18 hours a day. Good times
18hrs a day?! Isn’t that overworking? But that’s great that you can sneak in someone 🥰🥰
@@annea5781 Yes I remember having to sleep with my legs up against the wall to give them proper rest between the shifts, it was hard work! And so much fun. Never laughed so much in a job 🥰🥰 I bet they’d have fired me on the spot had they found out but I was young and saw it all as an adventure, why not share the best of it :)
@@annea5781
Cruise ships are notorious for ling 16-18 hour shifts being given the crew lives onboard
I cooked on a ship as a part of my education one semester. It was so much fun and enjoyable for crew morale that they offered me a job 3 different times. Even the Captain offered to write a personal reference. What a fond memory. 20 years ago and feels like yesterday. ;)
Your friendly disposition is awesome and comes through in your post.
When it comes to hospitality you want good people with good attitudes
I liked working in hospitality 20 years ago, but it's SO different now. everyone is treated like a criminal right off the bat.
:)
Can I ask what chefs eat during a cruise?
Wow what a wonderful experience
Holycrap! I did 4 years at NCL. Our food was NEVER even close to this.
I did one contract on NCL Sky and yeah, the crew mess food wasn’t great.
@@LoganLavery how long ago?
@@ariellemroberts 2008/2009
Dude that literally looks like a proper 5 star hotel buffet
👍🏻😌
2 star
3-4 star.
It’s clean etc but they are not getting expensive cuts of steak & lobsters 🦞
Buffet part is just generic salad bar plus nice deserts
Looks better than normal buffet cus it’s not a mess etc
Crew food varies from ship to ship and cruiseline to cruiseline. Yes this is standard fare for crew. Officers generally do have an officer mess but they are also allowed to eat in the guest buffet so they mostly do that (performers and other frontfacing jobs ie staff are also allowed to eat there). yes standard fare is rice, stewn, beans, salad, pasta, etc. most of the crew is asian so there is a lot of rice!
That’s not what the food looked like on the boat that I worked on, I use to bring groceries on with me because of how bad the food was on the ship or I ate out.
It depends on the ship each is slightly different
Guess it wasn't a big cruise line since you called it a boat, which crew never do.
@@tomgill7506yawn okay Karen.
Definitely not a buffet on Carnival. We didn't even get this as guest when I went on my first cruise early December.
This guy is hyping it up like it’s for all crew members. All of the perks he displays are for “entertainment class” and not the majority of workers.
I worked for a japanese shipping line, our food budget was 3$ per meal, it was nowhere like this. Everything was carefully measured out
Incredible! Even as an officer, you would not believe the cockroach-infested health hazards that we used to get served. Eat at your risk!
Glad that I’m working on cargo ships and not cruise ships
Crew members for the crew members.
Royale Carribean workers/ former workers: did your food look like this? I recognize the sign on the glass
This is larger than most but it's typical for the officers mess. The crew gets much shittier food.
been with celebrity which is in the same umbrella with Royal and yes this is what crew mess looks like,. some older ships still runs and the set up is still old school but the food in general is the same and all crew have the same access to everything except guests areas.
Salad bars like this must be my favorite thing so far. Imagine getting to eat like that everyday. I would be so happy. Salads r my comfort food.
Salads are my comfort food too!! It’s hard to find people who think the same 😄
@@Jenni-Martikainen omg yeah. Like it's so hard to find people who think that. I am glad to have talked to u
@@kanikagaral7637 I have never met anyone who thinks the same about salads as me, so this is super cool! 🤣 Where are you from? I’m from Finland ☺️
@@Jenni-Martikainen i am from India. We don't have such salad bars here. And salads r expensive here. So can't enjoy them as much as i like. Unless i am making it at home.
@@Jenni-MartikainenHere is another Finn who also loves salads and salad buffets! 😁🇫🇮
I worked on ships for 10 years.(1996-2006)..food was NOT like this at all..that looks awesome...
WOWWWWW look at all that food! (Also, love your voice!)
wow!! much better than our Crew Mess for 5 years that I worked.
The amount of food that goes to waste every night in these cruise ships is absurd.
Yes ❗️
Ahh I was hoping they don't throw it all away
@@oneflute4726 what else could they do with it?
they should sell it for a bit cheaper
@@travis1271it’s already included in your ticket. They can’t sell it
Plus you get to travel. The food looks really good,I'd be totally fine with that!
Hardly travel when you’re working 18 hour days in the middle of the ocean
Can’t wait to go and work in oasis of the seas . I’ll be joining next month .. so excited 😁
Your videos are very informative and interesting
You forgot to say staff can eat with passengers. But the crew gets to eat later anything was left from every sitting. Not left overs but partially the same was during the meal. Not bad anyway!
Even the buffet on the employee level is fabulous. They do put that spirit of presentation on everything. That is probably because you can’t have staff practicing what to do in a regular Buffay and then have a different standard for staff. It would be very confusing for kitchen stuff.
This is the best argument for working on a cruise ship I’ve ever seen 😂🍴
If it's too good to be true it usually is...
When the cost of the food is mostly procurement and logistics, spending that little bit of extra on making it really good makes a lot of sense, because happy crew members do better work.
Buffet salad everyday is the dream!
That all looks so delicious, Bryan!!! ❤😋😋😋🥰 Great spread.
Y'all be eating good this is a blessing
I worked at a Westin in the Caribbean and the staff food was whatever was going bad in the fridge, cooked up into a goop and served. Classy place!
“Mmmmm raisins” 😂
I've been on a cruise.
Most of the crew wasn't from the U.S.
Not that it mattered. I wouldn't have minded crew food. The lines above deck were always long.
my uncle was working at the kitchen for a cruise before and now for a cargoship. The food they make for the crew is pretty similar for both types of ship.
It looks like the windjammer Cafe without the windows
"Fresh" this and "Fresh" that, hahaha who do you think youre kidding lol
Looks great!!
oh man... why did I click on this? I'm so hungry and don't really want to fix what we have in the house. I have "fried rice" riced cauliflower, but pad Thai sounds awesome. I've got bagel with cream cheese & lox, I could bake a potato with all the toppings... I'd LOVE a fresh fruit plate!
Store-bought frozen fruit and ziplock bags.
They treat you so good 👍😊
I still find it hard to believe just how much these ships can hold… between all the food for all the guests and workers, and even just down to the amount of fresh water these ships can hold. Imagine enough water to VERY comfortably suit thousands of people. Do they use the machines that convert salt water to fresh water, or is it one massive holding tank?! Anyone have the answer?
The more modern ships do make their own yeah.
i remember my aunt told a story of her working on a big boat for a few months and got sick of the food cause they've been eating only curry for the last few months cause the ships chef was indian lmao
Crew get the leftovers from the guest buffet.
That's what I was thinking. Come to think of it, this is probably why we're seeing more vids like this. A lot of cruises are still under-booked, but they're buying just as much food.
If I was single you bet I would love to work on a cruise ship. my only problem is I have a small parrot and she is my baby. she loves to Travel though and goes everywhere with. Shopping, eating out, doctors appts. for me, the dentist, where ever. and I know they wouldn't let me take her. I don't know what I would do without her, she loves people, everyone and I mean everyone!
I'm pretty sure you're not a crew, you're more of like a staff. Regular crews aren't allowed to eat at the buffet, only during crew day.
Wow looks amazing ! Seems like a great job where they take care of their employees
This looks exactly like a mine site mess in Australia.
Maybe officers will eat like this, regular crew members just eat in the messroom and they don’t have so many options.
How do you know that?
@@nathanwahl9224 i use to work on cruiseships for 10 years.
@@stefanponcin911 I’m sure it depends who you work for
@@yamkaw346 sorry but regular crew members are not eating like that. And what your knowledge about this? You seen some episodes on the Discovery channel?!
@@stefanponcin911 so who do you think we should believe the guy who shows no evidence of his statements or the guy who's showing evidence of his statements?
I’m hungry 😅that salad bar has my name on it
it's like those mining towns where you're paid in company credits and you shop at the company store and live in the company town... reminds me of that...
Not typical that’s for sure
Yup. If you like to eat and hate to cook hospitality is the field to go into
what about if you like to eat and like to cook but hate doing the dishes afterwards?
Thank you for sharing
The crew has crew has crew it’s just crew all the way down like a Russian doll.
I imagine it is a lot like being a casino employee. The staff meal looks fabulous, even though it's all leftover stuff that sat aht for a few hours for the guests first.
I could live on a fried rice buffet!! Shtt any kind of rice buffet. If they had Thai iced tea, I'd live there 💜🍵🫖🧋
Wow, looks so much better than what Jordan Bauth Gets in her mess hall.
Those desserts looks delicious but damn .. I feel bad for the dishwasher 😂
What is the average wage for a crew member? Is payment weekly, monthly etc
Really enjoying your videos.
I love salad bars. You get all the goodness plus some have pasta.. I guess the figure you all are doing your jobs right so they reward you with yummy food. This is how it should be.
I'm not a dessert person. I eat cake as a starter! 😉
Good to know and see y’all are eating good as well. 👏
Do you pay for your meals or is it included in your pay?
Pay is less than min wage because they provide room/board/food/laundry.
Cruise ships have an obscenely high food poisoning rate because of the temperatures/food served in these buffet-style arrangements, left out for long periods, inadequate waste disposal and conditions in the kitchens. Huge amounts of sugar and salt are used to try and offset the risk of the food spoiling. You might think this looks pretty but scratch beneath the surface... Also all of that fruit looks underripe.
Oh my, i would live in the salad section and meat and cheese.....
Yummmmmmy! Thanks
Little did he know... those desserts are all the ones people have sneezed on/kids with booger fingers have touched and the cruise line refuses to serve to guests
Use to work in star cruise
The food is okay, I tend to make my own sandwich almost of the time
Looks delicious!
Can you show us the lunch and dinner buffet... Is it 24 hours? Can you also show the buffet at 00:00 hour.
Seafarer here from 1994-2010 (5 different fleet)
Not even close my friend!
I suppose we're very lucky here with these new ships! The food is delicious. 🤤
Is that the Staff mess? It doesn't look like the mess where rating crew would eat
Reminds me of a prison when the inspectors are in town and they roll out the best food. Only in this case it’s pretty boy is making a video on cruise food with the lines blessing so they roll out the best buffet.
Damn looks like customers have nicer spreads
They could still make the area nice even if its just for employees. Not so plain.
I did not expect this
Not a dessert person. That hurt my feelings 😂
Omg now I'm starving, lol 😆
Awesome food selection, however, everything in life comes with a price. Cruise staff members work 12+ hour shifts. Nowhere to go while on the sea, etc.
Looks like yall eat VERY well
12 years before the cruise ships selected the employees which were 3 to 4 years experienced and now they are selecting 6 months industrial trainees.
I really enjoy your videos.
Some place the crew get to eat what a guest eat....so the food is the same more or less.....
My inner pig would come out.
😆 !!
Raisins!!! 😂
yall eat like kings
The best in dessert 🍨 🥧 🍦.
It looks amazing, I'm glad the shipping line owner looks after the staff👌
On other cruse lines the crew mess look like prison food, that looks good. Feeding your crew well keeps morale and health up which is good for everyone.
It looks like the Windjammer menu
If I worked there. I would be rolling off that ship!
Wow, The Food On A CRUISE ⚓🚢
So, they've been talk about food shortages and supply chain problems but that doesn't seem to impact the cruise lines. Interesting...
Really enjoying the videos.
Fun!
I guess happy crew = happy guests
Man I'd,eat that as a guest.
Looks excellent
Omg! I wish we were fed like that in the mines! Wow, looks delicious!
That looks great 👍 👌 especially while I'm so hungry lol.
Great place to be on during an apocalypse
Mmmm raisins, said no one ever.
This is a theme night or a crew recognition, this is not everyday food in the crew mess...I have worked on the ship for 17 yrs