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Event Crew & Volunteer
Catering

Hot meals for the people who run the event, staff, volunteers, marshals, build crews, medics and finishers. Served on site, timed to your schedule, through the night if the event runs through the night.

Staff & Volunteer MealsFinisher Meals at VolumeOvernight ServiceSelf-Contained Kitchen
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Salt Wind Catering's self-contained mobile kitchen serving a crew from a gazebo on an open site

What is event crew catering?

Event crew catering feeds the workforce behind an event rather than the crowd in front of it, the staff, volunteers, marshals, build crews and medical teams, and the participants when they finish. Salt Wind Catering runs it the way we run a film unit: a self-contained kitchen on your site, hot breakfast before the first shift, hot lunch and dinner every day, and a continuous service through the night where the event needs one. Staff and volunteers are priced per person per service day and participants per meal, so the numbers can stay flexible until your final registrations are in.

The crowd gets fed by vendors. Who feeds the crew?

An event village has a dozen food vendors for the public and, too often, a table of sandwiches for the three hundred people who built it and are running it. A volunteer who has been on a checkpoint since five in the morning does not need a choice of vendors. They need a hot meal, close, on time, and a hot drink in their hand.

That is a crew feed, and it is what we do on location for film and television units: a kitchen that arrives with its own power and water, cooks to a schedule set by someone else, and serves the whole workforce inside the gap it has been given. Our next event contract runs four days with a finisher service through the night. The model is the same whether the event is a trail race, a regatta, an air show or a county show.

100%

Self-Contained Kitchen

24hr

Overnight Service

5★

Hygiene Rating

£10M

Public Liability

Who we feed

Everyone on the organiser's side of the barrier, plus the participants when they cross the line.

Event staff and volunteers

Breakfast before the first shift, a hot lunch and a hot dinner every day of the event, one rate per person per day, numbers flexed to who actually turns up.

Build and break crews

The days before and after the public arrive, when the workforce is small and the hours are long. Fed on the site as it goes up and comes down.

Marshals and checkpoint teams

Hot boxes out to remote points, sealed hot from the kitchen, so the people furthest from the hub eat as well as the people at it.

Participants at the finish

Finisher meals at volume, served continuously as people come in, a wide trickle overnight, a heavy peak in the afternoon, staffed to match.

Medical, safety and security teams

Timed around their cover, not ours. Meals held hot for staggered breaks so nobody leaves a post to eat.

Hot drinks, all day

Tea, coffee and hot chocolate at every service and at the finish line, the thing a cold volunteer remembers.

How it runs

The film-unit model, applied to an event site.

One team, the whole event

The same cook team from the first build day to the last de-rig, so the standard on day four is the standard on day one.

Prep at our kitchen, finished on site

The long, slow cooking happens at our kitchen in Redruth. Food travels sealed hot in insulated boxes, holds temperature the whole way, and the cooking is finished and served from the counter on your site.

Built around your schedule

Your event schedule is our call sheet. Service times, volumes and the overnight curve come from you; the rota comes from us.

Self-contained

Own gas, power, water, refrigeration and waste. A field with nothing on it is the normal case, not the exception.

Priced so the numbers can move

Crew numbers change from day to day and registrations close late. So the contract is built on rates, not on a fixed headcount: staff and volunteer catering is priced per person per service day for all meals, and participant meals per meal. The final figure is the actual numbers at the agreed rates, up or down, confirmed before the balance falls due.

Send the event dates, the daily crew estimate, the participant estimate and where the site is, and we come back with the rates and a plan for the service curve.

Send the event schedule for a quote

300 road miles from the kitchen

Based in Redruth, Cornwall. Multi-day events anywhere within 300 road miles of the kitchen, the same area we publish for film and TV unit catering. The kitchen travels with the team and stays for the duration.

Event Crew Catering Across 300 Road Miles of Cornwall

Salt Wind Catering feeds event crews, volunteers and participants across Cornwall, Devon, the South West, South Wales and the studio belt.

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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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Event crew catering FAQs

Can the numbers change after we book?
Yes, and they usually do. Staff and volunteer catering is priced per person per service day, and participant meals per meal, so the final figure is simply the actual numbers at the agreed rates. We ask for numbers as near final as you can get them in the last fortnight, with a final tweak the week of the event.
Can you serve through the night?
Yes. Where an event runs overnight, an ultra, a 24-hour race, a late finish. We run a continuous service rather than fixed sittings, with a small crew through the quiet hours and the weight of the team on the peak. Tell us when your finishers are expected and we build the rota around that curve.
What do you need from the site?
Vehicle access to the catering area, hard standing for the kitchen, a place to store water containers, and somewhere for the team to park overnight on multi-day events. Power and mains water are not required, the kitchen carries its own gas, power, water and refrigeration. If you are providing a marquee we set up inside it; if not, we bring our own cover.
Do volunteers need to bring their own plate and mug?
That is your call, and we work either way. Many organisers now ask staff and volunteers to bring their own plate, mug and cutlery to cut waste, and we plan for that with spares on hand. Where disposables are used they are compostable, no plastic, no polystyrene.
How do dietary requirements work across a large volunteer team?
Vegetarian and vegan options are on every service as full dishes, not afterthoughts. Gluten-free and named allergies are covered and clearly labelled. Send the dietary list with the numbers and we plan each service against it.
Can you feed spectators as well?
The crew and participant catering is the contract. Public-facing trading is a separate conversation with the organiser, and our festival and outdoor catering page covers what we run for a crowd.
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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.

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