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Festival Catering
Case Study · Glastonbury Festival

Five thousand visitors a day at Worthy Farm.

A multi-day festival catering deployment delivering halal-certified street food across multiple stages, with branded units, scale-ready field teams and a single accountable site lead.

— Client
Festival Operator
— Location
Worthy Farm, Somerset
— Service Type
Festival Catering
— Duration
5-Day Deployment
01— The Brief

What the festival needed.

A multi-day catering operation deployed across several stage areas of the festival site, feeding a high-volume crowd with a halal-certified menu that didn't compromise on speed of service. The festival was clear: no diesel idle from any unit on site, no compromise on food hygiene scoring, and a single accountable site lead they could call any hour of any day.

The brief also required real branding flexibility — units that could carry festival livery as well as EMA branding depending on where they were placed on site, and service lines that could handle the surge during the headline-act windows without queue times collapsing the experience.

02— What We Delivered

The EMA festival operation.

Across the deployment we operated a coordinated multi-unit setup. Each unit was staffed by EMA-trained field team members on rolling multi-day shifts, with accommodation logistics handled in-house. A single site lead was on-call from set-up Friday through strike Monday.

  • Multiple service lines — Turkish kebab, halal street food, ice cream and dessert range
  • Branded kiosks and stalls — co-branded with festival livery where required
  • EMA-trained field teams, multi-day shift coverage, accommodation logistics in-house
  • Single accountable site lead, on-call set-up through strike
  • HMC halal-certified across every menu line, every shift
  • Zero diesel idle on every unit, full waste management documentation

Every team member arrived to a documented service standard — what to cook, how to plate, what to say. By the time the gates opened, the operation was running like it had been there for years, because in operational terms it had.

03 / The Outcome

Real numbers from five days on the field.

5,000+
Visitors served per day across all units
0%
Service incidents, hygiene escalations or compliance issues
★★★★★
Festival operator review · invited back the following year
Client Testimonial
"

EMA arrived ready to work and ran the operation like it was their festival. No drama, no chasing, no compliance gaps. Just a working catering partner on site.

Festival Operations Lead Anonymised · Reference available
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