Operating a new catering business in Kamsack, Sarah Burrows was pleased to have been up to the challenge of catering a full-course meal to 170 people each night of the two-nights of the Kamsack Players” annual dinner theatre.
Staging the two-act farce Drinking Habits at the OCC Hall December 8 and 9, the Players engaged Burrows who began Full Throttle Event Solutions this summer when she had been catering her own wedding.
Burrows said that catering for the two nights plus buffets for the cast and crew following the performance was the biggest job her business has undertaken to date.
“It was amazing,” she said last week of the event. “Working as a chef is my passion.”
After having been born and raised at Maple Ridge, B.C., Burrows came to Kamsack about six years ago, and she and her husband Daina have two children, Jackson, 5, and Marley, 2.
About five years ago, the couple was joined by Sarah’s parents, Krystine and Terry Day. Her mother had come to Kamsack after having worked at a restaurant at Baffin Island in the Arctic for about six years.
Sarah had worked in the food industry both as a server and in the kitchen in British Columbia, where she has apprenticed with chefs, as well as in Kamsack where she worked for Glen Boychuk at the Woodlander Hotel.
“We started this business this summer after I had decided to cater and plan our own wedding, which was held on August 26,” she said, explaining that her business can take on full-event planning.
She said her mother and husband, along with a silent business partner, help with the workload. In fact, it was her husband who had baked the roasted garlic bread that was served at the dinner theatre and was still getting rave reviews several days later.
“We do cakes for all occasions,” she said, explaining that she’s baked and decorated “made so many” cakes in the past three years.
“Our business works with a variety of vendors so that we’re a one-stop party service,” she said, listing tattoo artists, DJs and suppliers of bouncy castles as vendors with which she works.
In addition to the catering business, she, her parents and her husband perform in a blues, rock and country band called Inlaws and Outlaws, with herself and her mother as the band’s vocalists.
The group’s only performance in Kamsack was at Canada Day two years ago.
Burrows encourages people needing an event planned, a caterer, or a band to consider contacting her for Full Throttle Event Solutions.
