Catering Carolina: 10,500 meatballs, 6,300 cookies

Posted Oct 17, 2012
The UNC-Virginia Tech game is just about to start. As 54,000 fans take their seats at Kenan Stadium and turn their attention to the field, crisis strikes the kitchen of the stadium’s exclusive Blue Zone. “We’re going to have a hot dog issue,” head chef Mike Bickel tells his boss, Dean Ogan. Ogan, 44, owns Rocky Top Hospitality, which caters for UNC’s Blue Zone as well as another 500 in private boxes scattered around the stadium. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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