Catering & Me

Picking up the story on Sunday July 30th, the night before the convention itself opens, and our biggest night of the week in terms of numbers and the prestige of the events. We would be catering breakfast, lunch and dinner on the Union Pacific trains, the Texas delegation opening party for over 1000 guests and the State of Utah's boat party in the Delaware River boat parade of all 50 states. Curtis Center Atrium. Dramatic event space for the Texas delegation welcome party. I assigned myself to oversee the Texas delegation welcome party at The Curtis Center. The Curtis Center, located only a block from Independence hall, is a very cool event space, but fairly difficult to work in for catering. It's probably much easier now as Philadelphia's preeminent wedding caterer, Cescaphe, has made some nice changes to allow them to execute events easier, but in 2000 we had to work out of the loading dock for our ovens and the mail room and adjacent hallway for hors d'ouevres ...

W. in Philly. Always a good sport. The stage was set, the contracts were signed, food was ordered, staff was booked, and our home base RV was rented. It was just about showtime in Philly for tens of thousands of Republicans, press, protesters  and little old Max & Me Catering from rural Bucks County, was smack in the middle of the whole shebang.   Wish I could have catered this Republican party! Well, Bully!!! The weight of anxiety and the fear of failure; I find helps me make sure to go over all preparations and work extra hard to help create successful events. I find that for almost every major event I take part in there comes a few hour period where my fear of failure dominates my thinking. I will go over any potential weak points in the execution plan and then mostly pace around, eat too much food, worry some more and then eventually the feeling fades. What if the staff and deliveries can’t get through security in a timely manner? This was perhap...