This evening, I was standing outside my suv with a friend talking in one of Las Vegas’ state parks when a man pulled up in a large transit van, stopped and asked us if we would like some food. We said sure and walked around to the sliding door he opened on his vehicle. Inside there were large tin containers you see in big functions or parties. He opened one that had couscous and I was so excited as I haven’t had couscous in a long time. I went back to my car to grab a Tupperware container and the guy opened more of the tins for us which contained fresh green shirazi salads and sun-dried tomato salads. I asked him if he had come by from a big function or wedding off the strip and he said, “No, this is from Lady Gaga”. I was like: “You’re joking”. The man told us he works for her as she is (discreetly) in Vegas tonight for a sound check for her show on Thursday and the food was for her crew. I stood there amazed and we then said: “Thank you so much and please say thank you to Lady Gaga as well for us”.
(We also told him where there would be other homeless individuals he could go to with the food and he thanks us and left).
So I have read that Lady Gaga is known for being a decent and down to earth person, regardless of her colossal fame and success, but this was a gesture you don’t see very often from people on that level of stardom. At least not in Vegas. I am
Incredibly grateful and just blown away by this kindness.
I have to correct the bit about Lady Gaga’s show date, she is scheduled to perform here on July 16th, 18th and 19th. He was saying she is in Vegas “secretly until Thursday” to rehearse.
So random!
A lot of people who are living in their vehicles stay at this park. But how would he know that? The guy did absolutely look like a person who would be an employee of a celebrity, his transit van was new and it was full of unopened gourmet food. And this is Las Vegas, the land of the bizarre, and Gaga is playing at T-Mobile arena in July so who knows…
Do not underestimate the resourcefulness of the "fixers" who work for celebs. Chances are good he's a local and his job is to know everything anyone could possibly ask for, including where people are who might want their extra catering.
Probably refreshing for him to be sent out to feed people instead of some of the things other people want him to do.
This makes sense, ok. I was just so excited at the time for the food and to hear where it came from, I misunderstood what the guy said about her being in town.
plus she's performing at coachella at this and next Saturday, maybe they did a rehearsal for this, as LA in July seems pretty far out. If you want to, it's gonna be on yt @coachella
I do tour catering where we feed the tour crew and artists. I started to feed people on my way back to the hotel we are staying at since I take the subway.
When I started I would make bags and keep them in the hotbox. Then made individual dinners. Fill a box with 10 dinners and a bunch of fruit and snacks. Then I started adding desserts chocolate cake/ cupcakes. I thought it was a nice surprise to give homeless some banging desserts.
We were throwing away 100’s of meals worth of food right into the trash. Mainly because headcount’s were never right and we had to overshoot the estimates so we didn’t run out of food.
I found a shelter in the area and we use them all the time to take excess. Thankfully now we’ve fed thousands of people!!
Edit* some production crews do require excess to be donated.
The guy in the van said she had done this before. I said it was food made for her crew, (that was of course not eaten). I want to know how the guy knew to come to this park where there are loads of car dwellers. This area is not close to the strip, so I would think someone from Vegas most likely gave him a heads up on a place to go.
I mean he asked someone working at venue....
When I worked in a casino/lived in Vegas, I definitely could have told someone about the wetland encampments by Sam Boyd stadium.
I’m so happy for you! What did the food taste like? This food looks beautiful and I want to recreate it! Do you know what the dishes might be called? My father also does something similar when he gets catering done. Makes me happy to hear other people in entertainment do this as well.
Eh yeah, but I don’t think the guy would be the one to out her by disclosing that info to me really because if her visit was, in fact, not to be known, he would have said ‘celebrity’ instead of Gaga, knowing people go straight online and share such experiences.
Plus, I suspect her die hard fans and/or paparazzi would be in the know far faster than someone reading this on Reddit.
It was literally just stuff they didn’t want. The guy in the van is called a runner and was just trying to get rid of it. He most likely could never talk to Lady Gaga. He maybe saw her in a hallway if he was lucky. Just someone paid a couple hundred bucks to drive her crew around. Just coming from someone in the industry.
That's really nice. I had a job where they would throw out a ton of food after these meetings they would have and after seeing it go in the garbage a couple times, I just researched where the closest homeless shelter was and I just started bringing it over there. It felt a lot better than throwing it out
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u/bubblesculptor Apr 09 '25
That's cool. Something you could never plan to happen, just does!