Judy preparing chioce vegetables
Catering Experience
Lovely Grub has been operating for eight years before which the company was called Hukinga Caterers which operated for eight years
Weddings
Lovely Grub caters for around 30 weddings per year. This work requires high service levels delivered in many strange locations. There is a complete list of venues we have available in Canterbury on our web site. (Address in contact details) We coordinate the marquee and complete range of hire equipment including bar facilities
Corporate Catering
This catering takes several different forms
- Client dinners or luncheons
- Field days or product launches
- Venue openings
They can be either a special day or at a major event like the South Island Field Days or the Canterbury A & P Show. Service usually involves a morning & afternoon tea with some sort of luncheon. Beverage and bar service can be supplied. The many and varied locations we operate at require strongly focused attention to the logistical detail of service and supply
Our Client Portfolio
Clients include:
- Ravensdown Fertilizer Coop,
- Lincoln College Foundation
- Rabo Bank
- Alliance Meats Ltd
- Cookie Time Ltd
- Bank of NZ
- Westpac
- ASB Bank
- Dow Agrosciences (NZ) Ltd
- Bicycle Victoria
- Pine Gould Corp
- Ideal Electrical Ltd
- Fonterra
- Bloody Good Events
- Cater Holt Harvey Ltd
- and many others
Film & Television Crew Catering
SNAKESKIN - A New Zealand feature film shot in and around Methven. 60 cast and crew 6 days a week for 7 weeks. Being a road movie nearly every meal was at a different location. It included two and a half weeks of night shooting
EI Lago a short film shot on the shores of Lake Tekapo over 6 days
An Indian feature called "Something I have to say" shot from Christchurch to Queenstown. Fourteen days with 65 cast and crew
Several commercials including the Canterbury Draft set of advertisements featuring Alex Wyllie.
Sundry Functions
During the year Lovely Grub does many functions which do not fit into the above category's. Many are done on location. These include:
Full daily food requirements for large groups over several days.
- bicycle tours
- horse treks
- conferences
- sports groups etc
This work often requires a large degree of logistical planning with the use of many different support vehicles and staff. (See functions of note).
We do food and beverage service for many bereavements.
Reunions are an area where our diverse skills are fully utilized. Many different types of functions, different locations, often at the same time. We arrange marquee and hire equipment facilities.
Functions of Note
Some of the diverse jobs Lovely Grub has completed in the last couple of years are:
Bicycle Victoria's 'Great NZ Bike Ride"
They had 1260 bicycle riders who traveled from Tekapo to Greymouth via Queenstown over 14 days. Lovely Grub fed these people 3 meals per day for the ride.
While doing the above event our company also did the national Harley Davidson convention in Akaroa. Here we catered for two dinners and meals back to back, in a marquee on' the recreation' for 500 guests.
The day before the Harley convention we did lunch, morning and afternoon tea for 470 guests at Lincoln for Ravensdown Fertilizer Coop.
Cookie Time's 20th birthday bash at Little Pigeon Bay, a very small and remote bay on Banks Peninsula. The 190 guests had been taken in by helicopter to the beach where they were treated to a whole night of high quality finger food and beverages with a live band which had been flown in from Auckland.
Mizone's "Wild Places Challenge"
As part of the Bluff to Cape Reinga multi sport event we did a full dinner for 90 competitors at the head of Lake Sumner. We traveled by unimog for 40 minutes to Lake Shepherd.. We fed 60 horse riders for a week while they traveled from the Kekerengu to the Clarence Reserve. We traveled up the Clarence River, some 50 kilometers west of the seaward Kaikoura ranges. We have done seven other remote horse treks but this was the most challenging and beautiful.
Christchurch Folk Club Music Festival
Over the last 7 years we have supplied meals and run a shop for snacks and beverages for 300 guests on the festival site.
Other Functions
Gavin has led the catering team at the Convergence festival at Loburn for the last 6 years. This event is not a commercial event but it is notable for the fact that all food is vegetarian and is 90 % organic. On average it lasts for 7 days and has 350 to 400 guests.
We catered 9 days for 300 students from 8 separate North Island Schools attending the Maardi Cup rowing events in Twizel.
During this time we also catered for 160 Ngai Tahu guests in a marquee which we supplied and erected in a valley 3 kilometers down from Mt Cook
