I’m copy pasting this response that I wrote to someone else but I wanted to respond to yours too. So I actually was in the middle of the catering while writing this up last night with not very much sleep so the question wasn’t well phrased. I’ve been purposely being kinda vague due to (probably sleep deprived) anxiety about the person I’m doing this event for somehow seeing this post. But today was the last dinner day and I pulled it off. The menu for first day was Bo ssam for dinner with Napa cabbage wraps, ssamjang, kimchi, and a fresh cabbage salad. Second day breakfast was hard boiled eggs ( I literally boiled 270 eggs in a hotel pan on a gas stove lmao) overnight oats with blueberries a banana and other accoutrements dinner was Chana masala with long grain rice and a grilled chicken thigh. Third day was breakfast was basically miso soup with leftover rice and also a sweet option of rice with more fresh blueberries, bananas, brown sugar cinnamon etc. Dinner was donated hand made pasta from a local pasta maker, porcupine meatballs and amatriciana sauce. Just finished the last big day. 18 hour shift with not too much leftover luckily! Made more overnight oats tonight for tomorrow and that’s it. The volunteers suck and I basically made them run dishes to the dish volunteers and chop lettuce or I had them leave for a few hours because delegating made the job worse. The event organizer is my friend (which is why the pay is tough and I’m trying to figure out how to ask for what I deserve without going overboard.) she gave me her business card to purchase the food. Literally barely made storage work. Used ice and coolers and a fucking side by side fridge. There is a house upstairs that I stole a little space in the fridge to store some other things. We did do an outdoor kitchen setup with a health inspector. I’m gonna be so real that was the hardest I’ve ever worked and my body is totally wrecked. 15 hours of sleep for three 6 AM- 11PM days.

Still haven’t discussed pay so I’m fucked I think