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The zoo chef feeding 1000 animal diets daily

The chef at one zoo plans and prepares around one thousand separate animal diets every day, which is more special orders than any restaurant gets; the animals never complain.

On air: Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield on The Midday Show
Published 12:22 PM ET, Thursday, October 15, 2026

Photo: Zoo — Photo: Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 2.0

At a glance

First reported by Yahoo: “The zoo chef feeding 1000 animal diets daily”.
Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 12:22 PM ET on The Midday Show, by Chip Darnell and Kenji Moonfield.

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YahooThe zoo chef feeding 1000 animal diets daily

What BBN said about it

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorToday's Pet of the Day goes to a person, sort of: the zoo chef who prepares a thousand animal diets every single day, according to Yahoo.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA thousand diets. That's a kitchen with a thousand customers and nobody can tweet a bad review.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd no two orders match.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI'm giving him the title of Head Chef of the Biggest Dinner Rush in America, with a record of one thousand plates and zero returns.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentZero returns, because a returned plate would be a lion.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI get a little emotional. Somewhere in that kitchen there's a tiny apron, and it's doing God's work.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, I'm jealous. I can't get a thousand people to show up for my stream, and he gets a thousand every day, in person.