Baton Rouge catering company in Northeast to feed those battling Sandy

More than 100 employees of Wayne Stabiler’s Catering Cajun struck out for the Northeast around 4 a.m. Sunday, and the Baton Rouge company says its people will be in Delaware, Virginia and Maryland as long as they’re needed to help the hundreds of utility workers staged there to battle approaching Hurricane Sandy. “We will provide breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and coffee for these working men and women until all power is restored, regardless of how many days or weeks it takes,” says Stabiler, whose Baton Rouge businesses also include Little Village and Le Creolé restaurants. Catering Cajun will also provide trailers in which workers can rest, and it’s assisting with their laundry needs. The trailers were sent up north along with three refrigerated trucks loaded with supplies from Baton Rouge. Catering Cajun has a contract to provide meals to workers in three states, but Hurricane Sandy is expected to impact many more as it barrels toward the East Coast this morning—threatening an estimated 50 million people with storm surges, hurricane-force winds, heavy rain and even snow. Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane, was blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard. The hurricane is on path to meet a winter storm and a cold front, plus high tides from a full moon, and experts have said the rare hybrid storm that results could impact 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.