Catering Tips & Ideas
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'Approved' gets used loosely in catering. For a site manager running a utility or civils job in Cornwall or Devon it has a specific meaning — and getting it wrong creates real risk. Here is what compliance for a welfare caterer actually involves and how to verify it.
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Cornish Recipes — by Elowen
Traditional Cornish pasties, saffron buns, crab linguine, stargazey pie and more — written by our pastry chef for home cooks who want the real thing.
If you are a procurement manager or site lead approving a welfare caterer for a utility contract in the South West, the criteria are not always obvious. Here is what an experienced welfare caterer should bring to the table — and how to test it before you sign.
If you have never hired a location caterer before, the whole thing can look opaque. The call sheet shows times. The contract shows numbers. But what actually happens on the day? Here is a complete walkthrough of a typical Salt Wind film catering day in Cornwall — start to finish.
Devon does not get the same press as Cornwall when it comes to filming locations, but anyone in the industry knows it punches above its weight. Dartmoor's wild granite tors, the rolling green of the South Hams, and the dramatic cliffs around Hartland have all been on screen, repeatedly.
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Get a free quote5am call. Pitch dark. Cold rain horizontal off the Atlantic. Forty crew arriving in convoy expecting hot food, strong coffee, and a kitchen that is already running. Breakfast on a film set is the most important service of the day — and the easiest to get wrong.
Standby catering is the quiet workhorse of a film day. It is not the hot lunch service that everyone queues for. It is the constantly-replenished hot drinks station, the fruit bowl that never empties, the bacon roll that appears at 10am when the focus puller is running on fumes.
Unit base is where the production lives. It is the staging point — the parked trucks, the costume tents, the production office on wheels — and it is where the crew comes to eat. Get unit base catering right and the day runs to schedule. Get it wrong and you have 80 hungry people standing in a layby in Bodmin Moor wondering where lunch is.
A wake is not just a meal. It is often the moment a family breathes out after the hardest few days of their lives. The food should be easy, generous, and arranged without fuss so that the family can be present with their guests rather than in the kitchen. Here is how we approach it.
Catering in Okehampton — Devon Event Catering from Salt Wind Okehampton is the gateway to Dartmoor — the closest Devon town to our Redruth base, and one we travel to regularly. The dramatic moorland s
Catering in Tavistock — Devon Event Catering from Salt Wind Tavistock is an old stannary town on the western edge of Dartmoor, sat between the moor and the Tamar Valley. It's one of the closest Devon
Catering in Dartmouth — Devon Event Catering from Salt Wind Dartmouth is one of the most-filmed towns in Devon. The Onedin Line was shot here. Churchill: The Hollywood Years used the harbour. The Coro
Catering in Totnes — Devon Event Catering from Salt Wind Totnes is one of the most distinctive towns in Devon — independent, slightly counter-cultural, and the home of Dartington Hall, an active comme
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