What is outside broadcast crew catering?
Outside broadcast crew catering feeds the production crew at a live event, the riggers, camera and sound operators, floor managers and truck crew, on the compound, inside the gap the broadcast schedule allows. Salt Wind Catering runs it the way we run a film unit day: a self-contained kitchen beside the trucks, hot breakfast from rig call, a hot meal ready before the window opens and cleared before it closes, hot drinks standing all day. Priced per head against the crew list.
A fixture is a shoot day with a harder clock
On a film unit the lunch break moves when the schedule moves. On a broadcast the on-air time does not move for anyone, so the meal has to land in the gap you actually have, be eaten in it, and be out of the way when it closes. That is the whole job: the right food, hot, in a window measured in minutes, on a compound that usually has no power and no water.
We feed film and television units on location to exactly that discipline, timed to a call sheet, cooked from a kitchen that carries everything it needs, served to a full crew inside the break it is given. The broadcast compound is the same problem in a truck park. Home Park, Sandy Park, the Mennaye and Fistral are all inside an hour or two of the kitchen; the rest of the South West, South Wales and the studio belt are inside the same 300-mile area we publish for film.
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Self-Contained Kitchen
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Timed to the Window
5★
Hygiene Rating
£10M
Public Liability
How it runs
The film-unit model, on a compound, against the broadcast clock.
On the clock
Your running order is our call sheet. Service times come from the broadcast schedule, not from us.
Cooked in the compound
A self-contained kitchen pitched beside the trucks. Hot meals cooked on site and served from the counter inside the gap.
Or hot-boxed in
For a small crew, meals cooked at our kitchen and delivered sealed hot, ready to eat, nothing to set up.
Crew feed, not hospitality
Cook team only. No waiting staff, no table service, the people making the programme, fed fast and well.
Vegan, vegetarian & gluten-free options available on request:info@saltwind.catering
Severe allergies: Our kitchen handles nuts and gluten daily, for severe nut, peanut, hazelnut allergies or coeliac disease we cannot guarantee a trace-free environment. Please tell us at enquiry stage so we can advise.
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READY TO BOOK?
Got a call sheet? Send it over.
Crew size, shoot dates and location (attach the call sheet if you have one) and the quote comes back the same day during office hours.
