As a caterer of near enough three decades this industry has taken the Hog Roast Coalville team to all sorts of incredible venues, events, clubs, communities, but few have been quite as novel and exciting as the event that our team had the pleasure of catering for this past week: a wrestling show!
The Hog Roast Coalville team were contacted some months back by a local wrestling club to see if we could provide catering for one of their upcoming show nights. It was going to be a fairly hardcore night of entertainment wrestling so they figured they needed a caterer that could more than match the style, the glamour, and the drama. A hog roast has all of that in abundance! We were more than happy to help – as long as our chefs weren’t going to be pulled into the ring and asked to take a chair shot, or leap from the top rope, that is!
The catering was to be both for the performers and the guests who come to watch. That meant splitting our service in two between a front of house service for guests and a green room service so that the wrestlers could remain in the back to both prep for the show in private, and keep up what is called ‘kayfabe’ in the wrestling industry – the idea that the audience can’t be allowed to see the lines behind what is real and part of the show. It was absolutely fine for us to do so. We simply ran one hog roast for each service and ran a buffet service with plenty of accompaniments on both sides. The wrestlers certainly needed plenty of fuelling for the show, so we made sure to also pile on the added accompaniments for them to keep their energy up! Plenty of good protein is needed for such a big show!
Our buffet put on quite the show – as it always does at Hog Roast Coalville– but even we have to admit it was nothing compared to the incredible show put on by these wrestling performers. All manner of immense feats of physical strength and daring do! We won’t be giving up our day jobs at Hog Roast Coalville to give it a try anytime soon, but we can’t help but applaud the club that had us out!