5-star hygiene · insured to £10M
Hot food for utility crews, highways gangs, maintenance teams and response workers. Off-grid mobile setup, no mains power or water required at site.
Day-Rate Anchor
Typical crew of 20: from £14pp/day
Single-shift hot lunch run, hot-boxed to your drop point with two mains, sides and drinks. Indicative procurement-grade rate, every job priced against live call times, crew size and location, confirmed in writing.
Day-Rate Welfare
Indicative per-head rates for a typical crew of 20. Every quote is built against the live job, call times, crew size, location and shift length all confirmed in writing up front.
Day Run
From £14 pp
Crew of 20 · single-shift delivery
Full Shift
From £22 pp
Crew of 20 · breakfast through standby
Multi-Week
Quote-based
Multi-week · tracked against the job
Rates are indicative per-head day rates for a 20-crew baseline. Travel supplement may apply outside Cornwall, confirmed in writing before commit.
What is welfare and emergency catering?
Salt Wind Catering provides 24/7 welfare and emergency catering across Cornwall and Devon, hot meals and refreshments delivered fast to incident crews, blue-light teams, utility contractors and welfare units. Self-contained mobile kitchens reach remote sites with no mains power or water, feeding from 20 people with no upper limit. Pricing is tailored per deployment by quote.
Salt Wind Catering provides welfare catering across Cornwall and Devon for utility contractors, highways gangs, council maintenance teams, telecoms engineers and emergency response crews. Hot meals on time, every shift, in any weather.
Welfare catering is procurement language for site catering with structure: a defined call time, a known crew size, a fixed point on site where food is reliably ready. Our mobile kitchen runs entirely off-grid, gas, charcoal, generators, our own water, so we set up wherever the work is, including remote moorland, coastal access points and roadside compounds with no mains anything.
7-day
Cover
5★
Hygiene Rating
£10M
PL Insurance
Built around what site crews actually want after a long shift. Hot, substantial, properly seasoned. Not finger food.
Bacon and sausage rolls, porridge, fruit and a hot drinks station from first light.
Substantial cooked lunches built for crews working in the cold and wet, hog roast, BBQ, giant pan, or street food formats depending on numbers.
Mid-morning and afternoon hot snacks, cold drinks, fresh fruit. Held ready for whenever the foreman calls a break.
Tea, coffee, hot chocolate kept running across the working day. Drinks station only, no full bar service.
Note: drinks station only. Salt Wind Catering does not provide bar service or alcoholic drinks packages.
Hot breakfast service ready 30 minutes before crew call, including 4am and 5am starts where the schedule needs it.
Hot lunch held back for late breaks and standby food running until the work stops.
Seven-day cover: utility and emergency work does not stop, and neither do we when contracted.
Crew numbers shift, schedules slip, weather days happen. We adjust covers and timings against the live job.
Welfare and emergency catering is priced per deployment by quote. There is no fixed per-head rate. Here is what each scenario delivers and how fast we move.
| Scenario | What's delivered | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Incident response | Field kitchen at the incident command point; hot food and a hot drinks station held ready for relief crews rotating through. | 24/7 rapid deployment, short notice |
| Blue-light & emergency | Self-contained mobile kitchen for cordons, fire-service standby and rescue support; hot meals and drinks for incident command. | 24/7 callout, mobilised at short notice |
| Contractor welfare | Breakfast from first light, hot lunch and standby provisions for utility, civils and highways crews; hot drinks station across the shift. | Scheduled to your site call times |
| Multi-day deployment | Seven-day cover including weekends, off-grid kitchen on site, flex on covers as the job moves, consolidated invoicing to procurement. | Sustained cover for the project duration |
| Remote / off-grid site | Self-contained gas, generators and water reach moorland, coastal access points and roadside compounds with no mains anything. | Mobilised to wherever the work is |
Every welfare and emergency deployment is priced individually, request a quote with your crew size, location and shift pattern.
Vegan, vegetarian & gluten-free options available on request: info@saltwind.catering
Severe allergies: 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.
The same off-grid mobile kitchen, deployed differently depending on who's on site and what the job looks like.
Blue Light & Emergency
Rapid deployment for blue-light welfare, police cordons, fire-service standby, mountain rescue support. We can mobilise at short notice with a self-contained catering unit. Hot food and drinks held ready for incident command.
Request emergency welfare quoteUtility & Civils
Multi-week welfare contracts for National Grid, water companies, fibre rollout and highways gangs. Breakfast from first light, hot lunch, standby provisions, tracked against the live job schedule. Full utility contractor catering details →
Get a QuoteIncident Response
Planned or reactive welfare for prolonged incidents, power outages, major roadworks, flood response. We set up a field kitchen at the incident command point and hold hot food and drinks for relief crews rotating through.
Get a QuoteCase studies
Emergency welfare
National Grid
When red weather warnings for Storm Goretti hit, Salt Wind Catering was deployed and paid on behalf of National Grid to provide emergency welfare support. We were fully operational on-site in Penryn within three hours of the call, and stayed operational across four days, feeding communities and frontline crews through the response.
Public sector
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
A standing NHS supplier account running training days, clinical-team events and on-site welfare feeding for major-incident exercises. PO-driven invoicing, full dietary-list handling and supplier paperwork managed end-to-end, the procurement-ready service public-sector buyers need.
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FFP New Media (ZDF)
Fully self-contained on-set catering for FFP New Media productions filming in Cornwall for German broadcaster ZDF, set up at the unit base with no reliance on venue power, water or kitchens. See the productions hub for the full film & TV credit list.
Read more →Real events · not stock
Hot food and drinks delivered to utility, civils, council and emergency sites, reliable service to crews on location, whatever the conditions. Every shot from a real Salt Wind Catering welfare job.
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