Island Life Magazine Ltd April/May 2008 | Page 105

life

Smooth operator at the
eye of the storm
FOOD & DRINK

Roz Whistance meets David Rogers of All About Catering,
who is unperturbed by the scale of the events he creates
“I don’t do wobblies,” says
David Rogers of All About
Catering. “If you do wobblies
you lose control.”
You can’t help wondering
how David Rogers doesn’t
do wobblies. There was
never a better example
of someone spending his
life keeping the plates
spinning. Based at the
Royal London Yacht Club
in Cowes where he runs
the hotel services, he also
operates the kitchen at the
Royal Corinthian Yacht
Club and at Bembridge
Sailing Club. In the
summer months his usual
staff of 12 swells to 80,
and he spends all his time
on outside events. And not
just one at a time.
“I’m quite a relaxed
person,” says David,
by way of explanation, and
he certainly appears so,
chatting away in the elegant
surroundings of the Royal
London. “I might have three
or four functions running on
any one day, and I make sure
I oversee all of them, and stay
on the most complicated site
– where we’ve had to build a
kitchen on a slope, say.”
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