Catering Services

Here is how the work lines up. On-set catering in New York operates inside the densest, most demanding food city in the world, and our caterers are built for it. NYC crews expect a real lunch — fresh pasta from the Italian East Harlem and Carroll Gardens tradition, classic NY deli plates pulled from Katz's-influenced kitchens, Brooklyn artisanal bread from Tom Cat Bakery, Mary's Off Madison craft service, Chinatown dim sum carts that roll directly into Kaufman Astoria stage doors, Smorgasburg vendor crossovers, halal-cart shawarma plates and the kosher infrastructure that has fed NYC shoots since the dawn of the East Coast studio system.

Here is how the picture comes together. Our caterers serve the Steiner Studios stages at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Silvercup in Long Island City, Kaufman Astoria in Queens, Broadway Stages, York Studios in the Bronx and JC Studios in Brooklyn, plus Manhattan street shoots inside MOME (Made in NY) permits and Hudson Valley, Long Island and Catskills remote units. NYC Department of Health Food Protection Certificate holders supervise each kitchen rig and the short-term on-set food-service permit chain stays clean through DOH inspection.

Here is what we have to work with. In practice the kitchens run hot breakfast, lunch, second meal and non-stop craft services with a proper espresso bar, working to IATSE Local 161 and Teamsters Local 817 meal-penalty clocks that start at the six-hour mark from general crew calls. Dietary inclusivity is standard from day one — kosher under rabbinical oversight with full kashrut separation through NYC's deep kosher catering infrastructure, halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and allergy-exact menus prepared to the same quality as the core service for the different NYC and global crews that the NY State 30% film tax credit plus 10% NYC uplift attracts.

Here is the layout. Manhattan street setups deploy compact — narrow West Village blocks, Wall Street finance-district frontages, Midtown crosstown service streets, the High Line and DUMBO waterfront — lining up sidewalk-width service through NYPD Movie & TV Unit parking suspensions and MOME community-board notifications. Sustainable sourcing runs through Hudson Valley farms, the Union Square Greenmarket and NYC composting programmes under NYC Department of Sanitation rules. USD invoicing with full sales-tax records closes back to the Empire State Development PCN file for the production accountant.