- Mobile kitchen services can be used for a number of different activities. Primarily, however, they are used to store, prepare and serve food and beverages to the public. Businesses use these kitchens to feed their work crews or to serve their customers food and beverages at special events like grand opening celebrations or inventory reduction sales. Non-profit organizations can also use mobile kitchen services as a fundraising device. They can set up their mobile kitchen at a carnival or special event and sell food items. Mobile kitchen services can also be set up to feed people responding to a disaster or to feed the overflow from a soup kitchen.
- Mobile kitchen services come in several types. On the basic end of the scale are simple portable cooking stations. These cooking stations are basically mobile stoves or grills. Some have attached prep areas, but this is not always the case. Tented kitchens are another option that is available. This option covers a collection of mobile cooking stations and prep areas with a tent. For people with more extensive cooking needs, large mobile kitchens are available. These kitchens come set up in a large trailer. The trailer can be hauled to the event area, stabilized and hooked up to water and electricity services. Then the event cooks can enter the mobile kitchen and start cooking.
- When it comes to features, mobile kitchen services have an extensive list. Basic features will include things like burners, refrigeration units and storage space. Other features include amenities like dishwashing units, airconditioning, heating, electrical outlets, commercial ovens, food warmers and ice dispensers.
- The size of the mobile kitchen services is going to depend on whether you are looking at an individual cooking station or the entire unit. Cooking stations tend to be compact in nature, whereas an entire mobile kitchen service unit could be well over 20 feet in length. If you are interested in tented mobile kitchens, then dimensions will be based on the interior space covered by the tent. You can rent small tented kitchens of 15 feet by 15 feet to extra large tented kitchens of 40 feet by 40 feet. Mobile kitchen trailers also are going to vary between about 20 feet in length to about 40 feet in length.
- Mobile kitchen services solve many of the problems of cooking outside or off-site. They designate a clean zone for food preparation and serving, and they offer conveniences like refrigeration, electricity and cooking surfaces. They also provide clean areas for preparing food for the public and help you to maintain food safety standards held by your local health department. Finally, mobile kitchen services control the cooking and serving environment that you are exposed to by offering a shield from the sun and elements, or by offering climate control options.
