What a Film Catering Day Actually Looks Like: From Call Sheet to Wrap
If you have never hired a location caterer before, the whole thing can look opaque. The call sheet shows times. The contract shows numbers.…
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Recent production: Good Chaos — Oddly Flowers
Production catering at a glance
What a UPM checks before booking
- Any crew size
- Documentary unit to 60+ daily
- Call → wrap
- Breakfast, lunch, all-day craft
- £10M PLI
- Employer liability + risk assessments
- NCASS · 5★
- Hygiene rating + HSE docs on request
- Same-day quote
- Priced against your call sheet, office hours
- Self-contained
- No mains power or venue kitchen
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Real shoots · not stock
This is the operation on location
Our own photographs, taken on jobs: the servery, the queue, the crew eating, and the base they sit in. Some frames include the facilities company's trucks alongside our kitchen, because that is how a unit base looks. Nothing here is stock.
Transparent pricing
Most production caterers make you request a quote before you see a price. We publish ours: from £30 +VAT per head for a full shoot day.
Every quote is still built around your call sheet, crew size, shoot days, locations and dietary spread, so you start with a real number, not a black box.
Production Tiers
Three ways we cater productions
Every shoot quote is built around the call sheet, crew size, shoot days, locations and dietary spread. The tiers below are how productions tend to book us.
Most Booked
Full Production Day
Full-Day Production
£30 +VAT pp
Call to wrap · mobile kitchen on location · billed on the day’s actual headcount
- Hot breakfast service from call time
- Multi-course hot lunch on location
- All-day craft services, constantly restocked
- Afternoon hot food + late-finish cover
- Mobile kitchen: no mains power needed
Multi-Day
Multi-Day Shoot
£30 +VAT pp/day
Block bookings · invoiced weekly against each day’s actual crew count
- Same day rate across the block: no multi-day loading
- Rolling menus tracked against the call sheet
- Unit base + second-unit drop coordination
- One invoice per shoot week, on real daily counts
- £10M PLI, NCASS, 5-star hygiene docs
Single Service
Location Lunch
On quote
One hot-boxed service: priced on the spec and how far we travel
- Hot lunch hot-boxed to set or unit base
- Meat or fish main plus a veggie/vegan option, with sides
- All dietary needs clearly labelled
- Cold drinks & hot drinks flasks
- Suits small unit / documentary crews
Both shoot-day tiers are the same £30 +VAT per head per day, billed on the call sheet’s actual headcount: the total scales with crew size and shoot days, never the rate. A single hot-boxed service is priced on the spec and the travel, which is why the third card carries no day rate. Send the call sheet and we price the block. Small crew in Cornwall or Devon? See hot box catering delivered.
The fast lane
Got a call sheet? Skip the form.
Send your crew size, shoot dates and location, attach the call sheet if you have one, and we will price against it and come back the same day during office hours. No 20-field form, no black box.
- Crew size
- Shoot dates
- Location / county
- Dietary spread
Prefer the full form? Production quote request →
Salt Wind Catering provides film and TV catering on set, hot meals for cast and crew on any shoot within 300 road miles of our kitchen: the South West and South Wales, the Thames Valley studios, and London. Based in Redruth, Cornwall. Recent credits include Good Chaos’s Oddly Flowers.
For productions needing facilities as well as food, we work alongside JW Film Facilities, honey wagons, green rooms, makeup and costume, power and transport, so catering and full unit-base facilities come from local Cornwall teams.
The problem
Location caterers who can't handle a 6am call, a 60-person dietary sheet, or a scene change that moves lunch 3 hours.
What that costs
Unhappy crew. Slower days. A unit manager fielding complaints instead of doing their job.
Salt Wind Catering's fix
Hot meals to set on your schedule. Dietary sheets handled before day one. One number, one point of contact, no surprises.
What is film and TV crew catering?
Salt Wind Catering feeds cast and crew on location across Cornwall and Devon, hot breakfasts at call time, multi-course lunches, all-day craft service and hot-boxed meals delivered to set. The kitchens carry their own power, gas, water and refrigeration, so cliff, beach and moor locations are no different to a studio car park. With 602+ events catered since 2024 and a 5.0★ rating from 63 reviews, the published day rate below is the one we have actually charged, and the quote is built per production from it.
See us feeding crews on location
Unit base, mobile kitchen and crew meals: real photos from Cornwall shoots.
Working alongside our facilities partner JW Film Facilities : Cornwall location vehicles since 1999.
Complete unit base
Catering and facilities, coordinated for Cornwall & Devon
Salt Wind Catering for crew meals; JW Film Facilities for honey wagons, green rooms, makeup, costume and power. Two specialists, one booking.
Complete Unit Base
Catering + facilities, coordinated as one booking.
Explore →Facilities Partner
The full JW Film Facilities fleet: 14+ vehicles.
View fleet →Cornwall Locations
Access notes for Cornwall's most-filmed locations.
Read →Devon Film Catering
On-set catering across Devon and the wider South West.
Explore →Where we cover
On the ground in the South West & South Wales: and 300 miles in every direction
We cover any shoot within 300 road miles of our kitchen in Cornwall. That takes in the whole South West and South Wales, the South Coast and Sussex, Berkshire, Surrey and London, the Thames Valley and Home Counties, including Pinewood, Shepperton, Leavesden and Elstree, and as far north as Birmingham and Leicester.
Filming at the far edge of that, Leavesden, Elstree, Birmingham, west Kent or west Wales? The team bases up locally for the run. Cornwall and Devon work is cooked from our four named suppliers, all inside 47 miles of the kitchen; on a distant unit base we buy the fresh produce, meat and bread in near you, so it is made on the day and the supply run stays short. Travel and crew accommodation are costed per shoot and confirmed in writing before you commit.
Areas we cover for film & TV
England: Cornwall · Devon · Somerset · Dorset · Bristol & Bath · Wiltshire · Gloucestershire · Hampshire · Isle of Wight · Herefordshire · Worcestershire · Berkshire · West Sussex · Surrey · Oxfordshire · Warwickshire · Middlesex · West Midlands · Greater London · Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire · Shropshire · Leicestershire · Northamptonshire · Staffordshire · Bedfordshire
Wales: Newport · Cardiff · Monmouthshire · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Vale of Glamorgan · Bridgend · Merthyr Tydfil · Powys · Neath Port Talbot · Swansea & Gower · Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · Pembrokeshire
Part-covered: Kent (west of Maidstone) · East Sussex (west of Brighton)
Studios in area: The Bottle Yard Studios (Bristol) · Wolf Studios Wales (Cardiff) · Dragon Studios (Bridgend) · Shinfield Studios (Reading) · Bay Studios (Swansea) · Longcross Studios (Surrey) · Shepperton Studios · Pinewood Studios · Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden · Bovingdon Airfield · Elstree Studios · Sky Studios Elstree
Remote & off-grid locations
Mountain, clifftop, moor and beach: no mains needed.
Off-grid case study: Brecon Beacons
Two days, two sites, no mains and no water. 250 miles.
Cornwall
Charlestown to the Minack: every location covered.
Devon
Dartmoor, Exmoor, the coast and country houses.
Somerset
Bath, the Mendips, Cheddar and the Levels.
Dorset
The Jurassic Coast, West Bay and Purbeck.
Wiltshire
Lacock, Castle Combe, Longleat, Salisbury Plain.
Bristol & Bath
The Bottle Yard Studios, harbourside, Georgian Bath.
Gloucestershire
The Cotswolds, Gloucester Cathedral, Forest of Dean.
Hampshire
Highclere, Portsmouth Dockyard, Winchester, the New Forest.
Surrey
Shepperton, Longcross, Bourne Wood, the Surrey Hills.
Berkshire
Windsor, Eton, Bray Studios and the Thames Valley.
Oxfordshire
The Oxford colleges, Blenheim Palace, the Cotswolds fringe.
Buckinghamshire
Pinewood Studios, the Chilterns and the Vale.
Hertfordshire
Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, Elstree, Hatfield House.
Middlesex
Twickenham Studios and west London locations.
Wales
Cardiff & Swansea studios, Gower, Pembrokeshire, the Beacons.
Cardiff
Wolf Studios Wales, Seren Stiwdios, the Vale.
Swansea & Gower
Bay Studios, Rhossili and the Gower AONB.
Guides
Studio & filming location guides
Practical catering notes for the studios and locations we work at, access, power, unit-base space and what each site allows.
Studios
Filming locations by county
6
Named Productions
£10M
Public Liability
5★
Hygiene Rating
100%
Dietary Covered
Productions we have fed on set
£10MPublic & Products LiabilityNCASSAccredited5★Food Hygiene10Named productions1999JW facilities since
How do you cater productions filming in Cornwall?
Film schedules change without warning, call times shift, locations move, numbers fluctuate. With named credits from two back-to-back ZDF films (42 shoot days) to Microsoft, Morrisons and Finisterre, scaling a unit base up or down is routine.
Built Around Your Schedule
Early calls, night shoots, split days and continuous working days. That is the job. A continuous lunch instead of a single sitting, supper and late breaks after dark, hot boxes out to a splinter unit. Supper, late breaks and night shoots are priced on top of the day rate, against your call sheet, tell us the schedule and the quote comes back the same day.
300 Road Miles From The Kitchen
Moors, clifftops, city sets, our mobile kitchens reach anywhere. Based in Redruth, we cover any shoot within 300 road miles: the South West and South Wales, the studio belt, and London.
All Dietary Needs Covered
Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, clearly labelled for cast and crew. Send us your dietary sheet and we will handle the rest.
Hot Meals On or Off Site
Individual hot-boxed meals delivered to set, or our mobile kitchen set up on location. Whichever suits the production, we can do it.
International Productions Welcome
Salt Wind Catering is experienced in catering for international film crews working in Cornwall, including German television productions. We understand the logistics, the dietary variety, and the pace of location filming.
Recent Productions Filmed in Cornwall
Salt Wind Catering has provided on-set film crew catering for Good Chaos’s Oddly Flowers production, filming across Cornwall. We know how location productions work in Cornwall, early call times, remote locations, tight schedules, and the dietary variety that comes with a full cast and crew.
If your production is filming in Cornwall, Devon or the wider South West, get in touch. We will have a quote back to you the same day during office hours.
What meals and craft service do you provide on set?
A full shoot day runs from call-time breakfast through to wrap:
Hot Meals for Cast & Crew
- Hot breakfasts and fresh pastries from call time
- Hot lunches and dinners: multi-course where needed
- Seasonal ingredients from named local suppliers
All-Day Craft Services
The all-day craft station: maintained and restocked throughout the shoot.
- Premium filter coffee and tea station
- Fresh fruit, healthy snacks, and indulgent treats
- Constantly restocked and maintained by our team
Filming in the South West? Why a caterer on the ground beats trucking it in
Productions filming in Cornwall and Devon have a choice: book a caterer already on the ground in the South West, or travel one in from out of region. We are based in Redruth, and we carry gas, charcoal, power, water, waste and refrigeration with us, so clifftops, moorland, woodland and beach shoots need nothing on site. Crews also book us for corporate working lunches in pre-production and charcoal BBQ catering for wrap parties, and the same crew-feeding setup covers festival and event crews backstage. Here is how being on the ground compares.
| Salt Wind Catering on the ground in the South-West | A nationwide caterer travelling in | |
|---|---|---|
| Response & lead time | Local team, quote usually back the same day during office hours; short-notice and last-minute schedule changes absorbed without a regional mobilisation. | Longer lead times; mobilising crew and kit across the country makes short-notice changes harder and costlier. |
| Knowledge of locations in Cornwall | First-hand knowledge of cliffs, beaches, moors, tides and access roads. We already know which lanes a unit base fits down and where the tide cuts a beach off. | Learning the locations on the day: access, tides and remote-site logistics are unfamiliar. |
| Road miles & carbon | Based in Redruth, short runs to set keep road miles down, which helps your production carbon report. | Long-haul travel and overnight accommodation add road miles to the production's carbon footprint. |
| Setup on remote / no-power sites | Self-contained mobile kitchens reach remote cliff, beach and moor locations with no mains power or water, gas, our own power, refrigeration, water and waste all carried. | Often reliant on venue power or mains hook-up; remote no-power sites can fall outside what a travelling kitchen is set up for. |
Production sustainability
Is your crew caterer genuinely sustainable?
Productions reporting against BAFTA albert need real numbers, not greenwash. Salt Wind Catering is an albert-aligned supplier: our kitchen is all-electric, run from an air-source heat pump, with no gas in the building. Food is made to order to cut waste, and packaging is compostable.
albert certifies productions, not caterers, so what you actually need from us is data you can report. We give you a per-event sustainability statement (PDF) listing the suppliers used, the packaging composition, the vehicle movement and our made-to-order policy, the supplier detail your production coordinator drops straight into albert's carbon footprint calculator. Ask for it on your quote request.
The supply chain is named and local: bread from Prima Bakeries, meat from RJ Trevarthen, dairy and fish from Westcountry Food, and produce from Continental Fruit & Veg. Short local supply runs keep food miles and carbon down. More on our sourcing, energy and waste practices on our sustainability page.
Film & TV Catering Across 300 Road Miles of Cornwall
Self-contained mobile kitchens reaching every town and remote location across Cornwall, Devon and the wider South West.
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“Salt Wind Catering were a joy to work with - clear communication & excellent food. They catered for 100 people with different dietary requirements and were so professional. I would recommend to anyone.”
“I recently booked Salt Wind Catering for one of our corporate events and I can honestly say they exceeded expectations in every area. From the initial enquiry through to the event itself, the communication was excellent – clear, responsive, and professional, which made organising everything straightforward and stress-free. On the day, the team were punctual, well organised, and seamlessly fitted in with the flow of the event. The food was outstanding. High quality ingredients, cooked perfectly, and presented beautifully. It wasn’t just “good catering food” – it was genuinely impressive, and we received a constant stream of compliments from both our staff and guests throughout the event. What really stood out was the level of care and pride the team take in their work. They understand how important reliability and presentation are at corporate events, and they delivered both effortlessly. It made a big difference knowing we were in safe hands. I would confidently recommend Salt Wind Catering to any business or individual looking for exceptional food and a professional, dependable service. We’ll absolutely be using them again for future events. Owner, The Cleanno Group”
The Cleanno Group·Corporate Event
“I have used Salt Wind for a few work events now and can highly recommend. Always tasty, fresh and delivered on time and have received high praise from all attendees”
Marie Clemow·Corporate Events
“Salt Wind Catering are amazing. From initial contact to the actual event communication has been great. We had lots of support in deciding which was the best package for the occasion and the team on the night we so good. Everyone commented on how good the food was. Would definitely use them again.”
IVFSYNERGY FINANCE
“They catered our work christmas party at short notice, the food was amazing, fresh and great variety. Cakes were sooo good everyone was very happy. Thanks guys.”
Suzannah Rawlings·Work Christmas Party
Salt Wind Catering has catered for Good Chaos (Oddly Flowers).
Film Catering FAQs
Common questions about our film and TV catering service.
Film & TV Catering Guides
Off-Grid Film Catering: Feeding Crews on Remote Cornwall & Devon Locations
Our self-contained mobile kitchen carries its own LPG appliances, power, water, refrigeration and waste, feeding film crews on remote clifftops, beaches and moors with no mains power or venue kitchen needed.
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Everything in Film & TV
Full shoot-day crew catering: £30 +VAT pp, one rate
- Menus & pricesThe full shoot day, and what it costs
- Production pack (PDF)Rate, credentials and coverage in one file
- Sample production menuA worked day, call time to wrap
- Unit base cateringCrew breakfast to wrap, NDA as standard
- Hot box catering
- Crew catering
- Event crew catering
- Broadcast crew catering
- Complete unit baseCatering and facilities as one booking
- Facilities partnerJW Film Facilities: honey wagons, green rooms, power
- Productions cateredCredits, from ZDF to Omaze
- Cornwall filming locationsAccess notes for Cornwall's most-filmed locations
- Remote & off-grid locationsMountain, clifftop, moor and beach: no mains needed
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