D.J.’s National Food & Event Service is the nation’s largest mobile food service company. Centrally located in Columbus, Ohio, D.J.’s has been family owned and operated since 1969. This once relatively small concession company has grown into the leader in food service management. Our management team has combined experience of over 125 years in the foodservice industry and specializes in short duration high volume events.

D.J.’s continually increases their state of the art operations and library of information on high profile events. Some of these events include Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual convention, Live 8 concert, The First in Flight Celebration, and Super Bowl’s NFL experience. D.J.’s provides an all inclusive management package including: telecommunication capabilities, administrative support, health department needs, community involvement, corporate sponsorships, branded partners, inventory controls, credit procedures and financial reporting.

While the grassroots of this food service company have come along way in more than 35 years of operations, there are some things that will never change... Our “no problems only solutions” approach ensures the patrons to have the highest quality food service available and an exceptional experience while providing the sponsors and promoters with the ease of mind that their event will be regarded as one of the best!

Management Staff

D.J.’s core management staff has over 125 years of combined experience in the food service industry. This team consists of 30 plus managers with at least 5 years of food service experience and is under the direction of our executive management group who have a been a team for 20 plus years. Their experience combined with high volume event strategies has consistently lead them to exceed forecasted performance figures. D.J.’s management group is responsible for managing all aspects of food service operations including: coordinating a large network of non profit groups or community volunteers, maintaining the highest quality of customer service to the patrons and corporate sponsors, and following strict food safety guidelines. D.J.’s management staff strongly believes in the TEAM approach...unless there is a common vision between operations, everything just remains ideas.

Support Staff
D.J.’s relies on local non profit, civic, or charitable organizations for most of their staffing support needs. This is an efficient and meaningful way to provide excellent service while supporting local community needs. Groups work along side our regular employees and receive our extensive training to ensure successful and efficient service. D.J.’s management staff is responsible for the organization and all on site training of these groups.

We have found that groups which include both adult and high school aged workers, learn valuable tools while experiencing the special event and working side by side with their peers. We require one adult per every two students as the student to adult ratio guideline for each groups participants.

Employees are asked to wear khaki, navy or black shorts or pants with a white collared shirt. We provide a hunter green cobbler apron with our company logo.

Other Staffing Sources
D.J.’s also relies on local personnel and temporary agencies to support their staffing needs especially for specific skilled positions (i.e. cooks, chefs, bar & server personnel), and for positions unable to be sourced through our network of local non profit and charitable organizations.