Event Specialists has operated in Southern California since 1989.
Ed Chan started here in his late teens.
He worked the carts and the lines, the load-ins and the long days, and came up through the ranks. In 2015 he bought the company from the owner who hired him.
Those early years taught him the industry from the inside, and then, as he puts it, from an executive operator's lens. Not just how service runs, but why it holds: the staffing ratio at 4pm, the holding temperature across a four-hour window, the permit that should have been filed three weeks ago, the load-in slot that moved.
Out with the crew
The work has not changed much. The footprint has.
That is why this company is built the way it is. Event Specialists does not simply cater events; it runs the food and beverage operation underneath them. Culinary and staffing, temporary bars, refrigeration and storage, inventory and purchasing, cashless point-of-sale, permitting, load-in, load-out, and settlement.
The scale changes. The operation does not.
The Team
“I started on the carts because I loved watching strangers become friends over a shared bite. Now I do weddings, brand events, and every festival in between, but the job never changed: put good food in someone's hands and give them a reason to linger.”
Ed Chan, President
Since 1989, across festivals, tournaments, air shows, productions, and private events throughout Southern California.
Wherever people gather, we feed them.
Ed Chan
President