Hollywood caterers receive an average of $15 a day for each person they feed on a movie set. Competition for business has become fierce as the number of catering companies has grown while the number of movies filmed in L.A. has shrunk. To keep the upper hand, caterers attempt to differentiate by offering not just the fanciest feasts, but smoothie bars, kettle corn, pasta stations, and on-site pizza ovens. In addition to the per-head fee, caterers who are also chefs can pull in plenty of dough. The chefs on movie sets are classified as Teamsters union drivers, which translates to $80,000 a year for an assistant chef and $110,000 for a chef. And if the article is correct, it seems that the caterers don’t pay their chefs, it’s the movie production company that picks up their union wages, making that $15 a head look even better.