Two ranges
Same-day range — Mysore, Tumkur, Kolar, Ramanagara, Hosur-side venues: the kitchen cooks in Bangalore for the morning and the crew drives with the food in insulated transport, or sets up a mobile kitchen at the venue for the evening.
Overnight range — Mangalore, Udupi, Coorg, Chikmagalur, Sakleshpur, Hassan, Hubli-Dharwad: the crew and the mobile kitchen travel the day before, the fresh purchases (seafood in Mangalore, vegetables in Coorg) are made locally on the morning, and the chefs of the seats on the menu are present.
What it adds
- Transport for the kitchen and the crew.
- Crew stay for the overnight range.
- A mobile kitchen setup — burners, tandoor, cold storage — where the venue has no kitchen.
- A minimum count for the overnight range, because a mobile kitchen for forty plates does not make sense for anyone.
Estate weddings
Coorg and Chikmagalur are the state's destination-wedding markets, and estate venues have particular rules — open-flame limits, power, rain. The kitchen has cooked under a tarpaulin in the monsoon and plans for it: covered counters, generator load agreed with the venue, and menus that hold if the muhurtham runs late.