Catering & Logistics Services

In China, catering and logistics is a regional-cuisine problem before it is a production problem. The eight great regional traditions are Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui. Each reads as its own supply chain, its own cook team and its own on-set palate, based on where the shoot books. Our caterers and logistics coordinators come out of the Beijing and Shanghai craft-services scene that serves Wanda Pictures, Huayi Brothers, Bona Film Group, Alibaba Pictures, Tencent Pictures and iQIYI Pictures. They also hold the on-site canteen contracts at Hengdian World Studios and Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis, where most of the global work books.

The Chinese crew expects hot rice and three to five dishes per service. A global option layer runs alongside it, with eggs and bacon, salads, sandwiches, Western breakfasts, and the gluten-free, vegan, halal and kosher overlays. Halal certification matters for Xinjiang, Ningxia and Gansu locations, and for Muslim crew anywhere in the country. The Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China sets the licensing floor. Our caterers carry the State Administration for Market Regulation business licenses and local health-bureau food-service permits that on-set inspections check.

On the logistics side, our teams hold the basecamp, the trucks and the cold chain across the whole country. Hengdian and Qingdao work out of the studio canteens. Beijing and Shanghai location shoots run mobile kitchens with refrigerated transport tuned for the humid southern summer and the freezing northern winter. Remote work in Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, the Sichuan mountains and Xinjiang runs self-contained.

On the ground, the picture gets more specific. It means power packs, water purification, a full pantry to cover the supply-chain distance, altitude steps on the Tibet routes, and Public Security Bureau planning for the permits that let trucks cross provincial lines. Gear transport, car planning, basecamp setup, load-in and load-out, and waste management run alongside the catering schedule. All of it works around Chinese New Year and the Oct 1-7 Golden Week shutdowns that the production calendar has to respect. Our coordinators speak Mandarin and English, post the day's menu in both, and keep the craft table stocked across the twelve to fourteen hour Chinese shooting day, so the crew stays fuelled from breakfast through second meal.