A crew unit base of trucks and a catering gazebo in a field above the sea

Crew Catering On Your Site

Hot food for working crews, on their own site, timed to their schedule. Film units, utility teams, emergency services and event crews, served from our self-contained kitchen set up on your site, or hot boxed and delivered ready to serve.

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What is crew catering?

Crew catering feeds a working crew on their own site, around their working day, hot breakfast before call, hot lunch in the middle of the shift, food that holds for staggered breaks. Salt Wind Catering feeds film and TV units, utility and contractor teams, emergency services and event crews across Cornwall and Plymouth, cooking on site from a self-contained mobile kitchen or delivering hot boxed meals ready to serve.

Fed properly, without stopping the job

A crew is not a party. Nobody has time to queue twice, the break is as long as the schedule says it is, and the site usually has no power, no water and no kitchen. That is the job we are set up for: self-serve lines the crew moves through fast, dietary versions labelled so nobody has to ask, and a kitchen that brings everything it needs, gas, power, water, waste and refrigeration.

We have catered 700+ events across Cornwall & Devon since 2024 and hold a 5.0★ rating from 67 reviews. The crews below are the ones we feed, each links to the page that covers it properly.

24hr

Cornwall Mobilisation

5★

Hygiene Rating

£10M

Public Liability

Which crew is yours?

Film & TV Crews

Unit catering from breakfast call to wrap, set up at your unit base, crew self serve · from £30 +VAT pp

Hot Boxes for Small Crews

Splinter units, small shoots and site teams: hot meals delivered ready to serve · Priced per head

Utility & Contractor Crews

Planned works, outages and long jobs: crews fed on site around the shift · Priced per head

Welfare & Emergency Feeding

Incident response and welfare catering, deployed fast, running as long as needed · 24/7 welfare

Event Crews & Volunteers

Staff, volunteers, marshals and finishers on multi-day events, fed on site, through the night where it runs overnight · Priced per head per day

Outside Broadcast Crews

OB and sports production crews fed in the compound, inside the broadcast gap · Priced per head

Case studies

Recent shoots

TV feature film

FFP New Media

Heart Waves / Herzwellen

Up to 60 cast & crew daily
Hayle, Penryn, Harlyn Bay, Padstow

'Heart Waves / Herzwellen', a German-language television film in the long-running Rosamunde Pilcher series, produced by FFP New Media for ZDF and filmed on location across Cornwall over 21 shoot days in June and July 2026. A Salt Wind Catering team was on set throughout, moving with the unit between locations all over the county, hot breakfasts, lunch and all-day craft services for the daily crew and cast, with dietary requirements managed end-to-end.

Television commercial

Academy Films

Charlie Bigham’s TVC, Cadgwith Cove

50 crew
Cadgwith Cove (the Lizard, Cornwall)

A one-day television commercial for Charlie Bigham’s, produced by Academy Films, shot in Cadgwith Cove on the Lizard. Fifty crew, and nowhere to park a unit at the cove: the crew left their cars at the top of the hill and walked down. Salt Wind Catering pitched a self-contained mobile kitchen on the recreation ground at Ruan Minor, about 800 metres above the cove, cooking before sunrise, and drove every service down the lane to the cove in our van, hot-boxed, so the crew never left the location to eat. The production first asked for a food truck; what the job needed was a kitchen that could work where a truck could not.

Location shoot

Locations Wales

FatFace

23 crew, plus the models
Llandovery (Carmarthenshire), Llyn y Fan Fach (Bannau Brycheiniog)

Two-day location shoot high in the Welsh mountains for FatFace, 23 crew plus the models, fed at two remote sites in Carmarthenshire and Bannau Brycheiniog, the second of them only reachable by 4x4. No venue, no mains power, no water and no hookup at either. Salt Wind Catering travelled up from Cornwall fully self-contained and worked to the call sheet to the minute: on location for a 07:00 catering pre-call, a full hour before the 08:00 unit call, both days. Rolling hot breakfast at 08:30 as the crew came off the transit run, a hot lunch served on location in the one-hour window at 13:15, craft table restocked at both breaks, and tea and filtered coffee running from pre-call to an 18:00 wrap.

Crew catering FAQs

What is crew catering?

Feeding a working crew on their own site, timed to their schedule, not a party, not a venue, no front-of-house. Hot breakfasts before call, hot lunches in the working day, and food that holds for staggered breaks. We serve film and TV units, utility and contractor teams, emergency services, and event build crews across Cornwall and Plymouth, with film work travelling much further.

How is crew catering served?

Two ways: our self-contained mobile kitchen cooking on site, its own power, water and refrigeration, nothing needed from the location, or hot boxed meals delivered ready to serve where a kitchen on site is overkill. Both run self-serve lines the crew moves through fast; dietary requirements are labelled at the line or on the box.

What does crew catering cost?

It depends which crew: film and TV unit days start from £30 +VAT per head; delivered hot boxes and site feeding are priced per head against your headcount. Send numbers, dates and the site and we quote it, no hidden charges on the invoice.

Can you feed crews on sites with no power or water?

Yes, that is the normal case, not the exception. The kitchen carries its own gas, power, water, waste and refrigeration, and works clifftops, moorland, beaches and closed roads. Vehicle access and pitch space are the two things we confirm before the day.

Do you handle early calls, night work and long days?

Yes. Film units book us from breakfast call to wrap, utility and emergency crews get fed around shift patterns, and 24/7 welfare feeding runs through our emergency response service. Tell us the working pattern and we build the food around it.

How do dietary requirements work for a crew?

Send the dietary list with the headcount. Vegetarian and vegan are standard on every service; gluten-free, dairy-free and named allergies are covered and clearly labelled, as separate marked boxes on deliveries, and labelled at the line when we cook on site.

See our full film & TV catering offer

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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.

Email your call sheet Call 01209 206255