Also called: Location Catering Chef, Production Caterer
Cooks hot breakfast and lunch for 150-person film crews out of a mobile kitchen truck.
A location caterer starts at 4 a.m. making breakfast burritos, then serves a full lunch exactly six hours after call time. Kitchen trucks move with the shoot.
Approximate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Culinary training plus food handler and manager certificates, then a year or so working on a catering truck before running one.
Ways in: Trade school, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Culinary Arts (trade school).
Growing about average. Tied to production.
Low risk for 10 years. Cooking hot meals for big crews out of a truck is hands-on, physical work that automation won't replace soon.
Classes: Culinary arts CTE, Nutrition, Business, Chemistry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 35-1011.
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