But for the past eight years, Cirque du Soleil kitchen manager Abdel Soriano has been doing just that. The acrobatic performance company has stopped in Oaks for its traveling show "Amaluna."
"A week, we're using 1,000 pounds of proteins," Soriano said, "meat, seafood, beef, chicken."
They reach out to suppliers, he added, because the grocery stores often "don't even have enough of what we need."
To feed that many people daily, Soriano is constantly thinking about the next step.
"I plan a month, at least, in advance before going to the next city," he noted. Oftentimes, he said people overlook an unusual and significant factor of his job: It moves.
"We travel," he said. "Everything has to fit in two containers. They don't imagine that all that we can see here — tables, chairs, plants, decorations, baby chairs — have to fit into two containers. They have no idea. They think it's magic — something happens."
"Amaluna" shows are available through Aug. 25 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center.