OLD SKOOL BUS EVENTS
FESTIVALS
FESTIVALS
Our team has tonnes of festival experience – In both food trading and festival site operations, so we know our way around busy festival fields and serving long queues!
Our director Kate used to work for the Eavis’ Glastonbury Festival site office and lived on site in the fields, so we know the ‘behind the scenes’ of site life and the vast amount of infrastructure build and hard graft that goes into running a festival!
We have traded with our food truck at many festivals over the past few years, including Shindig, Glastonbury Festival and Into the Wild, plus we’ve also provided the festival crew catering at several events in the past.
Food Trading
Being a food trader at a festival isn’t a walk in the park, catering for high numbers in a (sometimes)muddy field is hard work and it takes a whole lot of dedication and commitment. Our chefs and front of house serving staff thrive in the bustling environment, plus the hard work pays off when they get to see their favourite DJ’s and bands at the main stage!
Our festival menus are varied, but we prefer to sell our American style menus, such as gourmet burgers and fries – these are always the most popular with our American food truck of course. We use all locally sourced produce, with our burger buns being made fresh by local bakers, and the burger patties made daily by our butcher. Both our baker and butcher can cater our order gluten free on request and we have a great variety of allergy free produce we regularly use too.
Most popular festival food menus are:
- Burger & fries
- Grilled American cheese toasties
- Loaded fries
- Tex Mex – Mexican feast bowls and tacos
- Big brunches – we can add this on for the morning to the above
OLD SKOOOL BUS EVENTS
HIRE OUR AMERICAN BUSES
We are open to hiring our trucks for festivals and American themed events, and they can be used for a number of things including:
Theming
- Info point cabin – why not use an eye catching bus to make ‘Info Point’ easy to find?!
- Truck with marquee – we have a custom built big yellow awning which fits to our food truck. This awning makes a great seating area for about 40 people, so it could be used for crew, welfare, or an activity workshop area.
- Bar – we can hire the buses as a bar set up. We have different set up options, give us a call.
CREW CATERING
Festival crew food is vital to the success of a happy team, good nutrition, plenty of energy, and a productive event build, whether it’s for five days in the run up to an event, or 4 weeks on site building huge festival infrastructure. Not to mention keeping the crew fed and motivated for the de-rig after the festival when everyone is tired!
We have provided festival crew catering at many events across the UK in the past few years, alongside TV & Film location catering, whether it has been for 70 production crew for 3 meals per day for two weeks from the food truck, or 250 crew from a large crew catering marquee field kitchen and canteen!
The ideal number for us to serve from our food truck is between 100 – 150, for three meals per day. Due to staffing and fridge trailer hire costs we do require a minimum number to enable us to be able to be situated on your site for a period of time, however we have a variety of priced menus which may suit your budget.
I’m afraid we are not able to provide the lowest budget crew catering menus as we provide excellent food, great produce, and have an experienced team, so we aren’t always your cheapest option. What we do provide is a delicious, well balanced, nutritious and varied menu throughout each week, and we deliver it with a smile!
Our director, Kate, is a qualified Nutrition & Health coach in her spare time, so you can be reassured that the meals and menus have been planned to not only be delicious and varied, but also to consider the balance of protein, healthy carbohydrates for energy release, a great range of vegetables for fibre, and some good healthy essential fats.
We are aware that many crew love the traditional cooked breakfasts with fried hash browns and bacon, which of course we can provide, however, what we pride ourselves on is to give plenty of alternative, healthy, nutritious options for everyone. Here’s an example 7 day menu:
What clients are saying about us
Crew Catering
“The team at Old Skool Bus and Kitchen were wonderful. What a lovely group of people, always hardworking, smiling and helpful and importantly the food provided was plentiful, lots of choice and full of flavour. This was provided to us at a festival over 5 days to around 30 of us but also hundreds of others. Our team found it to be a wonderful place to wind down, chat and recharge the batteries with a drink or food. Highly recommend.”
Crew Catering
“Great catering, better and more nutritious than food stall holders!
It was very welcome food!”
