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Film Production catering in Los Angeles.
Film production catering in Los Angeles — run-of-show crew meals on cycle, talent tables and wrap parties, all halal. Sets, backlots and locations.

Film & TV catering runs about $22–$95 per guest, all-in, and the price per guest falls as the guest count rises. Here is what a spread costs at the counts people usually ask about.
| Guests | Estimated cost | Per guest |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $575 – $1,350 | $23 – $54 |
| 50 | $1,100 – $4,750 | $22 – $95 |
| 100 | $2,200 – $8,200 | $22 – $82 |
| 150 | $3,300 – $11,550 | $22 – $77 |
All-in: the food plus the staff, delivery and setup the service style needs. Tastings, rentals, add-on services and California sales tax are the only additions, and there is no service charge. The crew, setup and delivery are shared across the room, so the price per guest falls as the count rises. Every menu halal · zabiha-sourced.
Film & TV Catering
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The occasion
Film & TV catering in Los Angeles & Orange County
What it takes to cater film & tv well — the logistics, the timing, and how we make it work.
Feeding a film or television production is catering against a clock that someone else controls. Call times move, a setup runs long, a scene that should have wrapped at noon wraps at three, and the meal has to be hot and ready the moment the AD calls it regardless. We build production service around the run-of-show: crew meals on cycle, talent tables held to their own needs, and the flexibility to push a meal break thirty minutes without the food suffering for the wait. The job is to be the part of the day that goes exactly to plan.
Los Angeles production happens everywhere — soundstages and backlots, location shoots in the desert and on the coast, night exteriors that run past 2am. That means hot service at any call time, second meals for split days, and overnight crews fed properly rather than handed cold leftovers at 3am. We line up kitchens and crews that are set up for it, and we plan load-in around the shoot so catering never costs the production minutes it doesn't have. Vehicles and access are worked out with transportation ahead of time, not improvised at the gate.
Crews talk, and they remember who fed them well on a hard day. Every dish runs the same dietary tracks the rest of our catering does — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and halal · zabiha-sourced — labeled on the line so a grip with a restriction isn't left picking around a buffet. From a week of crew meals to a wrap party that finally lets everyone exhale, we cater the whole arc of a production with the same team and the same standard.
Why Carthage
Why Carthage for film & tv
What you get with us for film & tv specifically — not a generic catering pitch.
Hot service at any call time
Early calls, second meals on split days, and overnight crews fed properly — we run to the production's clock, including the meals that land well after midnight.
Flexible meal breaks that don't punish the food
When the schedule slips and a break moves thirty minutes, the food holds and arrives right — catering is the part of the day that goes to plan, not the part that adds to the delay.
Crew and talent, fed to their own needs
Crew meals on cycle plus talent tables held separately, with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and halal · zabiha-sourced tracks labeled on the line for every department.
Load-in planned around the shoot
We work access and timing with transportation ahead of time so catering never burns shoot minutes at the gate — on soundstages, backlots, and remote locations alike.
Credentials
Built for institutional buying
The same standards behind our LA County contract — an awarded, SAM-registered, insured vendor set up for procurement. Not a claim; a record you can verify.
Awarded government vendor
LA County Dept. of Mental Health
Boxed-meal term contract MA-IS-2640355-1
Term 2026–2029
Registered & verified
SAM.gov · UEI JKSRSFUCUL54 · CAGE 17AN4
LA County vendor #228518
LAUSD vendor #1000032065
Insured & experienced
$2M liability insurance
Founder · 20+ years in hospitality
COIs on file · allergen sheets · net-30
Built for procurement
NAICS 722320 · 722310 · 722330 · 311991
Per-head invoicing · bulk & boxed at scale
Halal · zabiha-sourced · dietary tracks
Crew scattered across a location with split call times? Individually boxed crew meals — see our boxed meal catering
Questions
Before you ask
What’s your minimum notice for a shoot?
Can you feed split calls and overnight crews?
Do you have studio lot clearances?
Can you cater a location with no power or water?
What happens when the schedule slips?
Do you cover craft service as well as meals?
Dietary
Dietary needs?
Every film & tv menu is labeled per dish and built around the guest list — here's how we handle the requests we hear most.
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