craft service

plural craft services · alternative Craft Service · alternative craft services

1. broadcastingThe department that provides food to workers, especially between meals.

   Though the Craft Service Person works on set making food available to the crew and cast between meals, the Coordinator can be the one to hire this person.

   1997, Debora Patz, Surviving Production: The Art of Production Management for Film and Television, page 35

2. broadcastingFood and drinks made available to workers during film or television production.

   But a day or two to hang out on a pal's set, eat craft service and bask in the schadenfreude of their best friend's production nightmares? Who wouldn't want to do that?

   2016, Dan Mirvish, The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking, pages 97–98

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   Usually featuring an assortment of hot and cold drinks, fresh fruit, vegetables, candy, and snacks, craft services helps keep everyone going during long production days.

   2008, Jason Tomaric, The Power Filmmaking Kit, page 328

3. broadcastingThe department that provides miscellaneous general services on the set.

   On "Deadwood" there is a Craft Service guy who cleans up after the horses. [...] Now that's not the same guy who makes your sandwiches, but still it's a Craft Service person who specializes in keeping the set clean.

   2009, Paul Salamoff, On the Set: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette, page sn

plural Craft Services

1. broadcastingAlternative letter-case form of craft service.