Catering & On-Set Services

Here is how the work lines up. Production catering in New York carries the contradictions of feeding a union crew inside the most food-dense city in the world while parking trucks on streets that barely have room for them. Our caterers operate out of commissaries in Long Island City, Sunset Park, and Industry City, with route plans that account for Manhattan congestion pricing south of 60th Street, the NYPD movie set detail's curb allocations, and the FDNY restrictions on idling generators near hot work or special effects.

Menus pull from the city's full culinary range — Katz's-style deli runs for early calls in the Lower East Side, wood-fired pies routed from Brooklyn for stage days at Steiner Studios, halal carts for night shoots in Times Square, Sichuan and Cantonese spreads sourced through Flushing for Queens productions, and Caribbean and West African options for shoots in Crown Heights and Harlem. We feed crews working under IATSE Local 52, Local 600, Local 798, and Teamsters Local 817 collective agreements, with the meal penalties and second-meal cadences those agreements need.

Our process starts with a head count, a shooting schedule, and a location list, then translates each into a tailored meal plan that respects allergy declarations, dietary preferences, and the long-running disciplines of New York crew catering. Hot lunches are staged from kitchen trucks or pop-up service points adjacent to base camp, craft service is replenished continuously with the energy snacks, fruit, and espresso drinks the city's directors expect, and second meals are prepared for overnight runs at studio stages or location bases.

We coordinate sanitation under NYC Department of Health rules, manage halal, kosher, vegan, gluten-free, and severe-allergy plates with clearly labelled service lines, and adapt menus to the realities of summer heat advisories or January cold calls. Wrap parties at venues from Brooklyn Industry City to Hudson Yards rooftops are scoped, costed, and delivered alongside the same logistical discipline that keeps the production day running.