Hot food where the work is
Salt Wind Catering provides welfare catering across Cornwall and Devon for utility contractors, highways gangs, council maintenance teams, telecoms engineers and emergency response crews. Hot meals on time, every shift, in any weather.
Welfare catering is procurement language for site catering with structure: a defined call time, a known crew size, a fixed point on site where food is reliably ready. Our mobile kitchen runs entirely off-grid — gas, charcoal, generators, our own water — so we set up wherever the work is, including remote moorland, coastal access points and roadside compounds with no mains anything.
7-day
Cover
100%
Off-Grid Capable
5★
Hygiene Rating
£10M
PL Insurance
Day-Rate Anchor
Typical crew of 20 — from £14pp/day
Single-shift hot lunch run, hot-boxed to your drop point with two mains, sides and drinks. Indicative procurement-grade rate — every job priced against live call times, crew size and location, confirmed in writing.
Day-Rate Welfare
Three procurement-grade tiers
Indicative per-head rates for a typical crew of 20. Every quote is built against the live job — call times, crew size, location and shift length all confirmed in writing up front.
Day Run
Hot Lunch Run
From £14 pp
Crew of 20 · single-shift delivery
- ✓ Hot lunch hot-boxed to drop point
- ✓ Two main options + sides
- ✓ Hot drinks flasks & cold drinks
- ✓ Disposable plates & cutlery
- ✓ 24h notice on quoted dates
Full Shift
Full Shift Welfare
From £22 pp
Crew of 20 · breakfast through standby
- ✓ Hot breakfast service from call time
- ✓ Hot cooked lunch on-site or hot-boxed
- ✓ Standby snacks & afternoon hot food
- ✓ Hot drinks station running across the shift
- ✓ Off-grid mobile kitchen on site
Multi-Week
Project Welfare Contract
Quote-based
Multi-week · tracked against the job
- ✓ Fixed daily welfare rate per crew member
- ✓ Seven-day cover including weekends
- ✓ Flex on covers as the job moves
- ✓ Purchase orders & consolidated invoicing
- ✓ NCASS, hygiene & PLI docs to procurement
Rates are indicative per-head day rates for a 20-crew baseline. Travel supplement may apply outside Cornwall — confirmed in writing before commit.
What we provide on site
Built around what site crews actually want after a long shift. Hot, substantial, properly seasoned. Not finger food.
Hot breakfast runs
Bacon and sausage rolls, breakfast wraps, porridge, fruit and a hot drinks station from first light.
Hot lunch service
Substantial cooked lunches built for crews working in the cold and wet — hog roast, BBQ, giant pan, or street food formats depending on numbers.
Standby and snacks
Mid-morning and afternoon hot snacks, cold drinks, fresh fruit. Held ready for whenever the foreman calls a break.
Hot drinks station
Tea, coffee, hot chocolate kept running across the working day. Drinks station only — no full bar service.
Note: drinks station only — Salt Wind Catering does not provide bar service or alcoholic drinks packages.
Built around the site schedule
Pre-dawn breakfast
Hot breakfast service ready 30 minutes before crew call — including 4am and 5am starts where the schedule needs it.
Late finish cover
Hot lunch held back for late breaks and standby food running until the work stops.
Weekends and bank holidays
Seven-day cover — utility and emergency work does not stop, and neither do we when contracted.
Mid-project flex
Crew numbers shift, schedules slip, weather days happen. We adjust covers and timings against the live job.
Vegan, vegetarian & gluten-free options available on request — info@saltwind.catering
Severe allergies: Our kitchen handles nuts and gluten daily — for severe nut, peanut, hazelnut allergies or coeliac disease we cannot guarantee a trace-free environment. Please tell us at enquiry stage so we can advise.
Which type of welfare catering do you need?
The same off-grid mobile kitchen — deployed differently depending on who's on site and what the job looks like.
Blue Light & Emergency
Emergency response catering
Rapid deployment for blue-light welfare — police cordons, fire-service standby, mountain rescue support. We can mobilise at short notice with a self-contained catering unit. Hot food and drinks held ready for incident command.
Request emergency welfare quoteUtility & Civils
Utility contractor catering
Multi-week welfare contracts for National Grid, water companies, fibre rollout and highways gangs. Breakfast from first light, hot lunch, standby provisions — tracked against the live job schedule. Full utility contractor catering details →
Request a utility welfare quoteIncident Response
Incident response catering
Planned or reactive welfare for prolonged incidents — power outages, major roadworks, flood response. We set up a field kitchen at the incident command point and hold hot food and drinks for relief crews rotating through.
Request an incident response quote
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