Fun facts about the St. Patrick's Day Breakfast

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(Dina Rudick/Globe staff)

US Senator Scott Brown at last year's St. Patrick Day Breakfast.

By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent

Here are some fun facts about Sunday's annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast, from the the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority’s food and beverage provider, Levy Restaurants.

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-- It will take approximately 12 pounds of coffee, or an estimated 39,000 beans, to make all the coffee that will be served Sunday morning.

-- It would take one cow a full day to produce all the cream that will be used for the coffee.

-- It would take four chickens one year to produce the 984 cage-free eggs, hand-cracked at Sunday’s breakfast.

-- More than 20 servers will attend to the guests, seated in 460 chairs, at 100 tables, as they use more than 1,200 utensils.

-- Bakers will start working at 4:00 a.m. with the kitchen in full swing around 6:00 a.m.

-- The convention center, built in 2004 and located along the South Boston waterfront, is Massachusetts’ second-largest public works project.

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