Eat to the Beat ensured that crew, artists, production and BBC personnel
at the Pyramid stage, Other Stage and interstage area were well catered for
at Worthy Farm. They produced breakfast, lunch and dinner for five days;
a steady stream of snacks and refreshments; band riders, incorporating
numerous dietary requirements, along with post-show spreads.
This year’s festival saw more than 24,000 meals ser ved by a 64-strong
Eat to the Beat team. They used 2,160kg of potatoes, 4,000 bananas, 80
litres of tomato ketchup and ser ved 400 homemade pizzas. Whilst its crew
members were clocking up, on average, a staggering 40,000 steps per day.
Sustainability is always at the forefront of Eat to the Beat’s ser vice
deliver y. This is across the board, from recyclable and biodegradable
disposable ser vice ware and effective waste management to developing
menus that offer plenty of tasty alternatives to meat dishes including vegan
options and securing local produce wherever possible. The company
reduced the quantity of beef it ser ved by 30% from 2017 and ser ved 10%
more vegan meals than 2017. And, in line with the festival’s pledge to ban
single-use plastics across the site, there were zero bottles ser ved in any of
their dining rooms.
Commenting on Eat to the Beat’s 20th successful year at Glastonbur y,
Mar y Shelley-Smith, global operations director said: “Having delivered
catering for crew and artists for 20 years, Eat to the Beat is nowundoubtedly part of Glastonbur y’s histor y. As events go, they really
don’t get any bigger. A quick look at our numbers for this year’s festival;
the quantity of meals ser ved, the sheer volumes of produce needed or
how many team members were involved and how hard they worked, is
indicative of that. We’re incredibly proud of our long-standing relationship
with Glastonbur y and look forward to working with the team for many more
years to come.”
TPi
Photo: Eat to the Beat
http://www.gigcatering.com/what-we-do/eat-to-the-beat/C ATERING
GLASTONBURY
The Event Safety Shop (TESS) has been the appointed safety contractor
for Glastonbur y Festival for nearly two decades. Hannah Charlton, who has
worked with TESS on 15 years of Glastonbur y Festivals, was the company’s
festival safety co-ordinator, supported by Adam Blaxter and the wider TESS
internal team.
Charlton told TPi: “There have been a huge amount of positive changes
over the years and we make sure an enabling safety culture is interwoven
into the creative fabric of Glastonbur y Festival. With more than 200,000
people on site the organisers are confident of public welfare thanks to
precise plans and on site expertise.
“TESS’s overarching responsibility in 2019 was providing strategic
advice and information in advance and on the ground practicable
implementation to permanent staff at the festival in the operations team
and the area organisers. We are also liaising with agencies and providers of
medical welfare and fire safety, creative and technical production teams,
contractors, licensing authorities and the Civil Aviation Authority.
“We produced and managed a whole suite of safety documentar y
information and distributed the information to all the relevant
stakeholders. We introduced a new online induction system and online
reporting, vastly reducing paper use, while making it quicker for ever yone
and allowing us to capture the information we need,” Charlton commented.
“One size doesn’t fit all at Glastonbur y – from small areas to big staging andpower contractors, down to people that come in and only do a small build –
we are here to enable creativity without the audience even realising there is
a layer of safety behind it. It is the uniqueness of it that keeps it interesting.
“We have a permanent on site presence from the beginning of the
build, with the arrival of the full team from the week before the festival
getting ever yone fully up to speed with the precise details. We are in regular
meetings throughout the event and are co-located close to event control,
making sure they’ve got information that we might be aware of along with
anything we’ve done in advance.
“A large, qualified TESS safety team was deployed, incorporating
subject area specialists: electrical, structural, gas and noise at work. The
teams made sure we checked on compliance and get venues signed off.
Gates opened on 8am on Wednesday but some venues and principal stages
didn’t start until Friday, so TESS carried out constant inspections to allow
build areas to operate with public on site across a staggered opening.
“As well as engineering weight and wind loading calculations, 25 stages
or venues had special effects brought in, ranging from large spectacular
laser displays to gas flame effects, which required specialist attention.
“2019 was the first year Glastonbur y banned plastic drinking bottles,
which was really positive, and they had plenty of Water Aid booths where
people could go to get drinking water, along with a huge number of
standpipes and taps to keep ever yone hydrated.”
TPi
http://www.the-eventsafetyshop.co.ukTHE EVENT SAFETY SHOP