Full crew feeding from breakfast call to wrap, also known as unit base catering. Hot lunches at the truck, craft service across the day, dietary lists handled across cast and crew. NDA as standard, self-contained, used to the locations Cornwall is chosen for.
Location catering feeds a film or TV crew from a self-contained mobile kitchen at the unit base, hot breakfast at call time, multi-course lunches and dinners, and craft service kept stocked through the shoot day. It's also known as unit base catering. Salt Wind Catering runs unit bases across Cornwall and Plymouth, reaching remote locations with no mains power or water. A full crew day starts from £30 +VAT per head, tailored per production by quote.
Crew fed properly, from call to wrap
Salt Wind Catering runs unit base catering for productions shooting in Cornwall, full crew feeding from breakfast call through to wrap. Hot lunches served from the truck, craft service kept rolling across the day, dietary lists handled across cast and crew. Self-contained mobile kitchen, NDA as standard, broadcast and commercial production experience.
We are the supplier you work with when you want one number for breakfast, lunch and craft, not three. The line producer sees an itemised quote (breakfast / lunch / craft), the locations manager hands us a pitch reference and a call sheet, the production coordinator gets the dietary list signed off in writing before shoot day. No surprises on the final invoice. No improvising at the truck on a wet morning.
We have catered 700+ events across Cornwall & Devon since 2024, hold a 5.0★ rating from 67 reviews, and scale crew feeding from 20 covers upwards, from a tight commercial unit to a full feature crew. Where a split unit or staggered call means people cannot reach the truck, we hot-box meals to set so the second unit eats hot too. A local team on the ground in the South-West, not a truck driven down for the week.
For productions that need facilities as well as food, we work alongside JW Film Facilities, a Cornwall-based facilities and transport company providing honey wagons, green rooms, makeup and costume trailers, generators and unit transport. Together that means catering and full unit-base facilities from local teams who know Cornwall.
Our self-contained unit: the mobile kitchen that runs crew feeding from breakfast call to wrap.
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.
Salt Wind Catering is built to the sustainability standards BAFTA albert sets for film & TV: four Cornish food suppliers on home ground, all inside 47 miles, fresh bought in near the unit base on a distant run, vegan and gluten-free options at every service, made-to-order service against the call-sheet headcount, food waste logged for your production's report, and plant-based packaging. albert certifies productions, not caterers, so what we give you is the per-event sustainability statement your coordinator drops straight into the albert carbon calculator.
Spec agreed in pre-production. Day-by-day flex on quantity and craft-service stock if shoot conditions shift.
Crew breakfast
from breakfast call
Bacon, sausage, hash brown, egg, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, hot baps, fruit, yoghurt, hot bevs. Served from the truck or staged at the production office. Veggie and vegan covered as standard.
Hot lunch service
main + 2 sides + dessert
Two hot mains daily, one meat or fish, plus a veggie/vegan option, with salad bar, sides and dessert. Rotated daily across a multi-day shoot so the crew is not eating the same plate. Labelled for dietary and allergen requirements.
Craft service
rolling stock
Fruit, snacks, sweet & savoury, energy drinks, hot bevs kept topped up across the shoot day. Spec agreed in pre-production and adjusted by day if shoot conditions change.
Itemised quote structure, breakfast / lunch / craft costed separately so production can flex spec by day. Multi-day, stand-by and weekly contracts available.
Why use a local unit-base caterer over trucking it in?
Cornwall is a major UK filming region, and the food for a remote unit base is easier when the kitchen is already in the South-West. Here is how a caterer on the ground compares with one travelling in from up-country.
Comparison of a local South-West unit-base caterer versus a nationwide caterer travelling in
Consideration
Salt Wind Catering on the ground in the South-West
A nationwide caterer travelling in
Response & lead time
24–48hr mobilisation for Cornwall units; recce attended in person without a long haul.
Days of lead time to position vehicles and crew before a shoot day.
Cornish location knowledge
Local read on access, tides and remote sites, clifftops, beaches, moorland, working farms, harbour walls.
Reliant on the production to brief access and ground conditions cold.
Road miles & carbon
Short runs from a Redruth base: few road miles and short food miles on your carbon report.
Long-distance vehicle movements on every shoot day, added to the production's footprint.
Self-contained setup
Mobile kitchen brings its own gas, water and fridges: no mains power or water needed on location.
May still need to be fully self-contained, but troubleshooting is far from home base.
How do you keep a unit base low-impact?
We set up at your unit base with our own mobile kitchen, food is made to order against the confirmed call-sheet headcount to cut waste, food waste is logged for your production's report, and we serve on plant-based packaging. We buy from four Cornish suppliers, all within 47 miles of our kitchen, which keeps food miles short and the supply chain local.
For productions tracking their environmental impact, we are an albert-aligned supplier, set up to support the sustainability standards productions are increasingly asked to meet. Commercials and brand shoots report to AdGreen rather than albert, and we give you the same per-event sustainability statement either way. See our sustainability commitments for the full picture.
Who books unit base catering?
Locations managers & UPMs
Single point of contact, one supplier for breakfast / lunch / craft, dietary list handled in writing, NDA signed at booking. Lower coordination overhead than three separate suppliers.
Production coordinators
Call-sheet integration, day-by-day spec adjustment, multi-day and stand-by rates clear from the quote. We work the way productions work.
Line producers
Transparent quote structure (breakfast / lunch / craft itemised), no hidden service charges, no per-head surprises on the final invoice.
Production companies
Past credits across broadcast, streaming, brand and commercial. References available under NDA on request.
References available on request, including NDA productions.
How does a production book us?
Brief. Production gets in touch, shoot dates, call-sheet size, locations, dietary spec, expected lunch service window.
Recce (if needed). For tricky locations we attend the recce with locations / UPM and confirm pitch, access, and unit-base setup.
Quote. Itemised by breakfast / lunch / craft, day-by-day where spec varies. NDA signed at this stage if required.
Pre-production sign-off. Dietary list locked in writing. Final call-sheet headcount confirmed 48 hours before shoot day.
Shoot days. Breakfast from call. Hot lunch in service window. Craft topped up across the day. Quiet, on-time, on-spec.
Wrap & invoice. Pack-down on order. Single invoice with full daily breakdown attached.
What areas do you cover?
Based in Redruth, central to the whole of Cornwall. Productions regularly shoot on the north coast (Bedruthan, Padstow, Tintagel), the south (Falmouth, Penzance, Roseland), Bodmin Moor, and into Plymouth, Tavistock and Dartmoor.
Unit base catering across Cornwall & Devon
Salt Wind Catering provides unit base catering across Cornwall and Plymouth, broadcast, streaming, commercial and brand productions.
'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.
A one-day television commercial for Charlie Bigham’s, produced by Academy Films, shot in Cadgwith Cove on the Lizard. Fifty crew, and no vehicle access to the location, the unit parked at the top of the hill and walked down to the cove. Salt Wind Catering pitched a self-contained mobile kitchen in a field above the village, on site from 05:30, and hot-boxed every service down to the crew so nobody had to climb back up for a meal. The production asked for a food truck; what the job actually needed was a kitchen that could work where a truck cannot go.
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.
Full crew feeding from breakfast call through to wrap. Hot lunches served from the truck to cast, crew, and production. Craft service kept stocked across the day, drinks, snacks, fruit, hot bevs. Dietary requirements handled across the call sheet, labelled clearly at the line.
How is unit base catering priced?
A full crew day starts from £30 +VAT per head, covering breakfast, mid-morning snacks, hot lunch, an afternoon break, and an all-day tea and filtered-coffee station. Final pricing depends on call-sheet headcount, shoot length, location complexity, and craft-service spec. We quote breakfast / lunch / craft separately so the line producer can flex spec by day. Day-rate, multi-day, and weekly contracts available.
Are you self-contained at the unit base?
Yes, our mobile kitchen brings its own gas, water, fridges and serving setup, with hot and cold holding so food stays at safe temperature through staggered call times. Place settings are covered too, disposable plates and cutlery, or crockery, on request. No mains power, no water supply, no kitchen required on location. We park where the locations manager tells us and run from there.
Can you provide a water bowser and hand-wash stations on a unit base?
Yes, for larger crews or longer shoots we can source a water bowser for on-site supply, and set up hand-wash stations at the catering point. Both are arranged on request and confirmed at recce alongside vehicle access and pitch space.
Do you cater on remote Cornish locations?
Yes, clifftops, beaches, moorland, working farms, private estates, harbour walls. We have catered at the kind of locations that productions choose Cornwall for. Vehicle access and pitch space are the two things we confirm at recce.
How do you handle dietary requirements across cast and crew?
Full dietary list collected at pre-production. Vegetarian and vegan are standard on every meal; gluten-free, dairy-free, and specific named allergies handled per call sheet. Everything labelled at the line. Our kitchen handles nuts, gluten and sesame daily. For severe nut, peanut, coeliac or sesame allergies we cannot guarantee a completely trace-free environment, so please tell us at enquiry stage. We will advise honestly, and we ask that the guest keeps any prescribed medication on hand.
Do you work under NDA?
Yes, as standard. Confidential locations, unpublished scripts and unannounced productions are routine for us, and we sign production-level NDAs at booking. Crew at our service do not discuss what is shooting or what we have catered for.
What's your production catering experience?
Past credits across broadcast, streaming, brand and commercial work, see our productions hub for a representative list. We work to industry expectations on call times, turn-around, and unit moves.
How quickly can you mobilise for short-notice shoots?
For Cornwall-based units, 24–48 hours notice is workable for most spec. Stand-by and re-confirmed shoot dates need 5–7 days. Pre-production planning works best 2–4 weeks ahead so dietary, location and call-sheet specifics are agreed before shoot day.
What areas do you cover for unit base catering?
Cornwall and into Devon. Plymouth, Tavistock, Exeter and Dartmoor are regular shoot regions for us.
