45
this day was primarily as runner - the person who runs, in this
case, to Moses Lake, for whatever else we need during the
course of the day. Elijah was assigned to the kitchen as prep
cook and dishwasher. I was to assist the “dining room girl’
Ryan. Dining rooms and dressing rooms are usually not a job
given to guys, but this crew was all male. I was the only female
on the crew for this show, which is really rare.
Chris, the owner of Latitude 45 Catering, has several
kitchens traveling on trucks somewhere on the North
American continent on any given day. His company goal is to
provide a little bit of home comfort and keep everyone on tour
well-fed and healthy while on the road. A catering crew travels
with each kitchen. They move from venue to venue on tour
buses along with the performers, the production, lighting,
rigging, sound, and promo crews. Catering may be a small
crew that feeds 100 people on a tour. Or in contrast, for the
highest attended, largest grossing U2 “360” tour, Chris rented
a house for 20 plus crew members, flew them in from LA and
the east coast. With the help of additional local workers
Latitude 45 set up two kitchens, fed hundreds of people in two
dining rooms for 10 days straight. Because the U2 stage was
so huge, there were several set-up and break-down crews that