Chew On This: Thai Restaurant Spans 8.4 Acres

If you need to go to the bathroom, you may have trouble finding your table again at the Royal Dragon.

The restaurant is the size of eight football fields, and waiters rollerskate to get the food to you from the distant kitchen.

The 8.4-acre seafood restaurant on the outskirts of Bangkok has been stamped as the world’s biggest restaurant by the Guinness Book of Records. That distinction previously belonged to another Bangkok eatery, the 6.8-acre Thai Palace.

The Royal Dragon has 1,200 employees, including 541 waiters and waitresses and 322 chefs.

The menu offers more than 1,000 dishes, including Western, Thai, Japanese and Chinese food.

There are 5,000 seats. The kitchen has 24,500 plates and 21,500 bowls. At peak production, 3,000 dishes can be cooked up in an hour.