Catering & Logistics Services

Here is how the work lines up. Catering logistics on a New York shoot is built around two non-negotiables — the IATSE Local 161 / Teamsters Local 817 meal-penalty clock. This starts ticking at the six-hour mark from general crew calls. The reality of basecamping in a city where parking lanes are measured in feet and MOME (Made in NY) permits live or die on community-board notification. Our catering and logistics teams come out of NYC's deep production catering tradition — the ops who fed The Sopranos, Mrs.

Here is how the work shapes up. Maisel, Law & Order, Succession, Boardwalk Empire and the modern Marvel and Apple TV+ NYC units — and they run hot meals, second meals and non-stop craft services through Mary's Off Madison, Tom Cat Bakery, NYC craft-services kitchens, Smorgasburg vendor crossovers and the kosher and halal infrastructure that NYC's different crew base routinely needs. NYC Department of Health permits sit alongside SCIA-matching short-term food service sign-ups. Food Protection Certificate holders supervise each kitchen rig before the first call sheet circulates.

Here is how it adds up. In practice the team handles basecamp setup, trailer planning, power packs placement, parking-meter bagging through NYPD Movie & TV Unit, and load-in/load-out windows that align with MOME permit times and adjacent block-association notifications. Mobile kitchens deploy compact for Manhattan street shoots inside ZTL-matching constraints — narrow West Village blocks, Wall Street financial-district sidewalks, Midtown crosstown service streets — and scale up for Steiner Studios at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Silvercup Long Island City, Kaufman Astoria Queens, York Studios Bronx and JC Studios in Brooklyn where stage-side catering kitchens run full hot lunch services for 200-plus crew.

Here is the run-down. Hudson Valley and Long Island remote units get refrigerated truck backup and backup power packs power, with hospital routing through NY-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and Bellevue mapped against the basecamp address. Dietary lodging runs default — kosher under rabbinical oversight through NYC's kosher catering infrastructure, halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and allergy-exact menus prepared to the same standard as the core service — and invoicing carries through in USD with full sales-tax records back to the production accountant for the NY State Film Tax Credit qualifying spend file managed through Empire State Development.