Lunch at a Business Event

Feeding more then 3000 people in a little more then an hour is a logistic nightmare. I was a participant of such an event on Wednesday and admired the caterers team. They did a lot of work to keep so many people fed and watered.

It started around 9 in the morning with lots of coffee and tea stations and buttered pretzel sticks. Huge fridges held all kinds of water and juice drinks. But no soft drinks. They wanted to keep everyone healthy.

These fridges were scattered all over the huge event hall on both floors in 15 m distances. It was easy even with so many people to get something to drink. Great on a hot day with 30 C and no AC in the hall.
When we got our tickets, the lunch stands were already with numbers on each ticket. When the break started, the run began.

It was all packed in recyclable containers and held organic and locally sourced food. The three variations were for carnivores, vegetarians, vegans or people with special allergy needs.

I know huge events. So when the bell sounded for lunch I took a quick tour to the designated food stand and got my box. I had looked for the numbered stand during a quick break earlier and knew where to go. Short after that more then 100 people stood in line to get their food.

They served the meat eaters corn fed organic chicken breast basked in Frankfurt green herbs. It was sitting on a potato salad with sauteed chanterelle mushrooms. Good quality, but it was under seasoned.
It lacked in salt and pepper.
3 tbsp of Ebly wheat, the sun wheat of France, was made into a salad. Sadly it was sitting on its own too long and had soaked up any kind of dressing that should have been around it. Dry and not so
tasty. I wished for some olive oil and vinegar.
Next to it laid a wrap. My colleges thought it was the dessert. Something dark red was sticking out. I saw immediately that it was beetroot and some green asparagus - so no way that was a dessert. The wrap was whole meal flour and that piece of food was the tastiest of the lunch.