craft service

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craft service (plural craft services)

1. (film, television) The department that provides food to workers, especially between meals.
   • 1997, Debora Patz, Surviving Production: The Art of Production Management for Film and Television‎, page 35:

     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.

2. (film, television) Food and drinks made available to workers during film or television production.
   • 2008, Jason Tomaric, The Power Filmmaking Kit‎, page 328:

     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.

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

     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?

3. (film, television) The department that provides miscellaneous general services on the set.
   • 2009, Paul Salamoff, On the Set: The Hidden Rules of Movie Making Etiquette‎, page sn:

     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.