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Originally Posted by Kuan
A private chef, a team chef that travels with the team? Seriously. Where do they setup their kitchen? Never seen it happen.
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This is especially common with the new focus on sports nutrition/specialty diets. The teams will want to ensure that the right food is available for their athletes when its needed. Not only that, but it is a way to keep the athletes positive and happy if they get the food they like prepared the way they want it. We're all the same that way, we all have our own "comfort foods" and we are particular about how we want them prepared.
I remember seeing a segment on the team chef for the Toronto Raptors NBA team a number of years ago. In their kitchen at the Skydome they had hired a chef who was particularly familiar with southern "soul food" style cooking as they had many basketball players from the south. Offering this style of cooking was a way to make them feel better in general, which makes for more productive athletes.