Wolfgang Puck Runs 30,000-Plate Oscars Circus, Still Can’t Keep Staff
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- •Wolfgang Puck led catering at the 2026 Oscars Governors Ball, serving 1,700 guests with 30,000 small plates.
- •He highlighted the volatility of catering work, explaining it is harder to maintain stable staffing than in restaurants.
- •To stabilize his workforce, Puck expanded to corporate catering for companies like Netflix, Google, and Apple.
Wolfgang Puck, the man who’s been bossing the Governors Ball kitchen for 30 years as Oscars’ culinary captain, drops wisdom that running catering gigs feeding 1,700 star-studded guests 30,000 small plates is tougher than any restaurant meltdown. His secret survival sauce? Balancing big Hollywood Sundays with weekday corporate gigs for Netflix, Google, Apple, Sony, and yes, Beach (because who doesn't need their corporate breakfast served by the Oscars caterer?). With 75 savory chefs, 45 pastry wizards, and ‘hundreds’ of servers, it’s a labor jungle gym. Puck complains the business swings crazily between feast and famine, and shabby staffing means feeding glitz-starved celebrities isn't even the hardest dish.
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(1 of 3)Feeding Hollywood’s elite 30,000 tiny plates once a year doesn’t pay the rent—Wolfgang’s crew survives on tech lunch gigs. Oscars glitz meets job insecurity reality, and even Puck admits catering is a rollercoaster nobody asked to board.
Wolfgang Puck: Masters the art of spectacular starvation prep, then hustles Google lunches to cover rent.
Nothing screams ‘glamour’ like schlepping 30,000 mini-meals then panicking if your staff can pay rent.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/17/2026 | Author: Nikita Grant,Abby Narishkin,Jessica Orwig
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