Amazon employees Austin Baggett, left, Mario Howard and Richard Miller prepare to order their lunch from the Chick-N-Nooga food truck Monday outside the Amazon distribution center in Enterprise South Industrial Park.
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Packages in Amazon’s Chattanooga distribution center move through about 2,500 scanners in the building, which has the floor space of an estimated 28 football fields.
Lauren Hannah has worked at Amazon’s sprawling Chattanooga distribution center for the past three years and likes to grab lunch from the food trucks which regularly service the facility.
“You get a lot of food at a really good price,” she said this week outside the Chick-N-Nooga truck parked in front of the center. “It’s very convenient, and it comes really quick, too.”
Amazon has arranged for food trucks to help feed the internet retailer’s teeming workforce of 2,500 full-time employees. The trucks come each day around 11 a.m. for the day shift and then at 10:00 p.m. or so for the employees who work at night.
“It’s a fun perk,” said Amazon spokeswoman Ali Hutchins.