City in California
Lompoc, CA Mobile Commercial Kitchen Trailer Rentals
Need a temporary commercial kitchen in Lompoc? Our trailers cover cooking, dishwashing and emergency refrigeration, for kitchens that cannot wait for a repair. The same team handles temporary food service after an equipment failure and planned rentals for renovation or construction work. Rentals start at one week and continue by the month, with long-term leasing for longer rebuilds. Hospitals, manufacturers and nursing homes are among the customers we rent to. Placement and setup are arranged with your team, and delivery is scheduled around the site. Contact us to check availability and get a quote for Lompoc or Buellton.
24/7 emergency line: (877) 416-7535

- Population (2024 est.)
- 43,594
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Land area
- 11.6 sq mi
- FEMA declarations (county)
- 41
Temporary kitchen rental for Lompoc facilities
Temporary modular kitchens are how Lompoc facilities keep serving through a closure. A modular commercial kitchen rental brings the cooking line to the site, with kitchen setup for renovations planned around your schedule. If the work spills into Buellton, 16 miles from here, or into Santa Maria, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.
Kitchens in the fleet run from the 24ft Mobile Kitchen up to the 40ft Bulk Combo Kitchen. For a site like this one, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen, 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen and 38ft Mobile Kitchen are the models to compare first, each with its listed equipment and electrical requirements.
About Lompoc, CA
Lompoc is the 199th most populous of the 475 California places this site covers, with an estimated 43,594 residents in 2024. It covers about 11.6 square miles of Santa Barbara County. Across Santa Barbara County's 2,734 square miles, 8 places are covered here, together about 307,464 residents, with Santa Maria the largest. Population density is roughly 3,751 people per square mile. Sacramento, the California capital, is about 275 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. The nearest larger place covered here is Santa Maria, about 19 miles away in a straight line.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.
What shapes kitchen rentals in Lompoc, CA
Past emergencies and recovery needs in Lompoc
Since 1969, Santa Barbara County has been named in 41 FEMA declarations; wildfire (15 declarations) and flooding (13 declarations) lead the list. A project that reaches Buellton should read that page too; it lists the declarations for its county.
The most recent is Severe Winter Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (major disaster declaration, DR-4769), declared April 13, 2024, with the incident beginning January 31, 2024. Severe storms interrupt power, roads and deliveries together, which is hard on any operation that serves meals on a schedule. By incident type, the count is wildfire 15, flooding 13, severe storms 7, freezing conditions 2 and hurricane 1. By decade: 1960s 1, 1970s 4, 1980s 3, 1990s 6, 2000s 12, 2010s 9 and 2020s 6. The records also list Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4699, April 3, 2023), Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (EM-3592, March 10, 2023), Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4683, January 14, 2023), Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, and Mudslides (EM-3591, January 9, 2023) and Alisal Fire (FM-5419, October 13, 2021).
Between 2016 and 2025 the Storm Events Database recorded 62 county-based event records in Santa Barbara County, with flood events the most common at 48. The costliest event with a reported dollar figure was a debris flow in January 2018, with about $617 million in property damage. Flooding fouls kitchen equipment and drainage first, and a kitchen cannot reopen until it has been cleaned and inspected.
The National Interagency Fire Center maps 5 wildfires of 1,000 acres or more that started in Santa Barbara County since 2016, together covering about 211,318 acres. The largest was the Gifford fire in 2025, at 131,614 acres. Fire weather means planned power cuts as well as fires, and a walk-in cooler does not keep product cold through a long shutoff.
Declarations are federal designations for an area, not a record of damage at a particular site.
Construction projects and crew meals near Lompoc
USASpending.gov lists 100 or more federal construction contracts of $500,000 or more with work in Santa Barbara County since October 2021. USASpending.gov shows a $38 million Department of Defense contract, “Design Build Initial Outfitting (Dbio), Vandenberg Afb, CA,” starting September 2020 in Santa Barbara County (award record). The Department of Defense committed $26 million to “Design-Build Initial Outfitting (Dbio), Edwards Afb, CA” in Santa Barbara County, awarded September 2020 (award record). Another public record is “Fire Detection and Alarm System at FCC Lompoc,” a $19 million Department of Justice contract from October 2023 in Santa Barbara County (award record). In February 2020, the Department of Defense awarded a $19 million contract for “Replace Overhead Distribution Line Circuit D1 on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California” in Santa Barbara County, with work running to July 2025 (award record). Work like this puts crews on a site for months, often far from a restaurant, and the meals become a logistics question before the first shift starts. A job in Santa Maria (about 111,346 residents) raises the same crew-meal questions.
Renovation projects that close kitchens in Lompoc
No federal contract for repairing or modernizing a building is on record for Santa Barbara County. The nearest is in San Luis Obispo County, about 63 miles away. The Department of Justice committed $5.4 million to “Fire Suppression System Upgrade at FCC Lompoc” in San Luis Obispo County, awarded July 2023 (award record). Renovations like this are the usual reason an institution leases a mobile kitchen, because the permanent one cannot run while the work is under way. Solvang is on the same footing: the old kitchen closes on a date, and the temporary one has to be cooking before it.
Getting emergency equipment into Lompoc
Public emergency operations in California are coordinated by the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), with county emergency managers handling local response. Staging areas and access routes for disaster response are published by those agencies and can change, so this page does not draw a route. Staging and access details differ again in Guadalupe, so check the published sources for that area before planning a route.
Lompoc Valley Medical Center is the nearest hospital CMS lists, in Lompoc itself.
Local rental costs in Lompoc
There is no single price for every job in Lompoc. Equipment, rental term, delivery and site conditions all change it. As a guide, prices start at the 38ft Mobile Kitchen from $7,995, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen from $6,995 and the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen from $9,995, and they may vary. Arroyo Grande is quoted on the same factors, but at 33 miles away a different address can change delivery and setup terms.
Starting prices are guides, and prices may vary with location, rental length, delivery, setup and utilities. A written quote states the equipment, the rental period and what is included.
Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, NOAA nClimDiv normals, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.
Dishwashing and emergency refrigeration in Lompoc
A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 22 to 26ft Low-Temp Dishwashing Trailer (220V, single phase, 150A) handles trays, plates and pans so Lompoc kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Warewashing needs the same hot water and drain plan in Guadalupe, 22 miles from here, as it does here.
Cooler or freezer down? Emergency refrigeration rental for Lompoc is available on a short-term basis: ask for the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F or a different temperature setting when you call. Arroyo Grande sits in San Luis Obispo County, which has 26 federal declarations on record; a walk-in that fails there starts the same clock on the stock inside.
A typical January night in Santa Barbara County drops to 40°F, a typical July afternoon reaches 82°F, and the county gets about 19 inches of precipitation in a year (NOAA, 1991 to 2020). January lows run about 4 degrees warmer than the average California county. A mixed climate means a kitchen trailer sees freezing mornings and hot afternoons in the same year, and the setup allows for both.
Who rents kitchen trailers in Lompoc
Rental customers in Lompoc are commercial, institutional and public: hospitals, manufacturers, nursing homes and jails. Each has its own pressure points, from a hospital kitchen rental during a remodel to keeping staff fed through a long project. Grover Beach (about 12,534 residents) and Pismo Beach (about 7,984 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services counts 6 hospitals in Santa Barbara County, 1 of them critical access, among them Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, Lompoc Valley Medical Center, Marian Regional Medical Center and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. The county also has 14 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 1,277 beds. The National Center for Education Statistics counts 127 public schools with about 66,841 students, in districts such as Santa Maria-Bonita, Santa Barbara Unified and Santa Maria Joint Union High.
- Hospital Kitchen Rental and Temporary Kitchen Trailers: a fire, flood or equipment failure that closes the kitchen with little warning
- Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: cafeteria renovation across multiple shifts
- Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: equipment failure in an older kitchen that cannot be repaired quickly
- Jail and Detention Center Kitchen Trailer Rentals: renovation work that must be phased without stopping meals
Rentals around Lompoc
A shared kitchen need can span several communities. The nearest places to Lompoc are listed with their straight-line distance; road distance and delivery time will differ.
- Buellton, CA: about 16 miles from Lompoc, about 5,023 residents
- Santa Maria, CA: about 19 miles from Lompoc, about 111,346 residents
- Solvang, CA: about 19 miles from Lompoc, about 5,988 residents
- Guadalupe, CA: about 22 miles from Lompoc, about 8,735 residents
- Arroyo Grande, CA: about 33 miles from Lompoc, about 18,249 residents
- Grover Beach, CA: about 33 miles from Lompoc, about 12,534 residents
Before the trailer arrives in Lompoc
Sites in Goleta, 38 miles away, and San Luis Obispo use the same checklist; only the pad and the paperwork change.
- Pad and access: a level area, a clear approach for the trailer length and room for food deliveries.
- Drainage: decide where wastewater goes, whether a sewer connection, a tank or scheduled pump-out.
- Electrical: confirm the service matches the model, for example 220V single phase at 200 to 220A for the 40ft kitchens.
See the site planning guides for power, water, wastewater and placement detail.
Lompoc and the counties next door
The nearest California counties to Lompoc are San Luis Obispo County (50 miles), Ventura County (79 miles) and Kings County (104 miles).
- San Luis Obispo County: about 50 miles from Lompoc, 26 FEMA declarations since records began, 3 hospitals listed by CMS
- Ventura County: about 79 miles from Lompoc, 51 FEMA declarations since records began, 7 hospitals listed by CMS
- Kings County: about 104 miles from Lompoc, 17 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
Beyond the kitchen: facilities for longer jobs
Mobile kitchens in Lompoc come first, and the rest follows from the site. Where crews live and work on site, bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals (for example the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit) and laundry trailer rentals (the 24ft Laundry Trailer) can sit beside the kitchen. We confirm the exact unit and price in a written quote.
Frequently Asked Questions
What power does a kitchen trailer need in Lompoc?
Kitchen trailers on our list run on 220V single phase, from 200A on the 24ft and 28ft models to 200 to 220A on the larger ones. Dishwashing trailers range from 150A to 300A depending on the model, and the 30ft conveyor unit is listed on three-phase power. Check the model page before you confirm the site.
Can you rent dishwashing as well as a kitchen in Lompoc?
Yes. Dishwashing trailers range from a compact push-through low-temperature unit to 38ft conveyor trailers in low-temperature and high-temperature versions. They can be rented with a kitchen or on their own.
Can I rent a mobile kitchen in Lompoc for a renovation?
Yes. Mobile commercial kitchens are rented to facilities in Lompoc and Santa Barbara County for renovations, repairs and emergencies. Rental terms run from one week to monthly, including long-term leasing. Tell us your start date, meals per day and the utilities on site, and we will help match a model.
Who rents mobile kitchens near Lompoc?
Commercial, institutional and public customers: hospitals, manufacturers, nursing homes and jails. We do not rent to households.
Why Organizations Choose Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service
Kitchen outages in Lompoc do not wait for a convenient schedule. Mobile commercial kitchen rentals work best when the equipment, the site plan and the people who set it up are lined up before the first meal is due.
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Accelerated Deployment
Gathering utility and access details up front removes the common causes of setup delays.
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24/7 Emergency Service
Emergency calls are taken around the clock, so a failure at midnight is not left until morning.
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End-to-End Project Support
From the first quote to placement, utility hookup guidance and pickup, one team stays on your project.
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Flexible Rental Solutions
Choose a short rental for an outage or a long lease for a renovation that runs for months.
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Heavy-Duty Commercial Equipment
Commercial-grade cooking, warewashing and cold storage equipment stands up to long service days.
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Experienced Logistics Coordination
Coordination covers who needs to be on site, what needs to be ready and when the unit is collected.
Why clients trust usWhat we can confirm
- Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for emergency and planned rental requests.
- Rentals are for commercial and industrial customers: hospitals, schools, institutions, hotels, contractors and public agencies.
- Equipment and electrical requirements are listed on each model page, so you can check them against your site.
- Delivery, setup and pickup are coordinated with your facility team, with guidance on power, water and wastewater.
Open 24/7 for emergencies
Start Your Rental Inquiry
Tell us the project location, the equipment you need, how long you need it and what is on site, and we will help match a trailer to the job. Emergencies and planned rentals both start here, or call the line any hour.
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A request is not a reservation; availability depends on the unit and your location.