Great Performances/Artists as Waitresses, Inc.

Lobbying client

A New York City catering and event-production company founded in 1980 as a flexible-employment waitress service for women in the arts, now one of the city's larger caterers, serving cultural institutions including BAM, the Brooklyn Museum, the Apollo Theater, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. It has been headquartered on Third Avenue in Mott Haven, the Bronx, since 2019, near the Major Deegan Expressway parking lease named in its lobbying filing. It is registered to lobby citywide and filed 6 disclosures in 2024 through Canon Strategy Group, on that parking-lease determination and on food-manufacturing procurement, and has held $60.4 million in city contracts since 2010, $5.4 million of it active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
6
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$36,175
Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts (active)
$5,412,503 · 3 contracts
Awarded all-time
$60,378,561 · 39 since 2010, incl. expired
Paid to date
$37,473,694
Won without a fresh bid
88% of contract value · $52,985,603 · 5 contracts
Based in
Bronx, NY

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

Largest payments, by purpose

The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.

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