Shasta Lake, CA Commercial Kitchen Trailers for Rent

When a permanent kitchen in Shasta Lake is closed for renovation, repairs or an equipment failure, a rented mobile commercial kitchen lets meal service continue from a trailer parked on site. A project that crosses into Redding (about 93,502 residents) usually keeps one menu, one crew and one power plan, which is why the kitchen is chosen first.

Common choices include the 28ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200A), the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200 to 220A) and the 40ft Mobile Kitchen (220V, single phase, 200 to 220A). Each model page lists the equipment and the electrical service.

Kitchen requests in Shasta Lake tend to fall into a few groups: hospitals, golf clubs, school districts and jails. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Weed (about 2,633 residents) and Corning (about 8,131 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 4 hospitals in Shasta County, 1 of them critical access: Mayers Memorial Hospital, Mercy Medical Center Redding, Patients' Hospital of Redding and Shasta Regional Medical Center. The county also has 10 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 1,055 beds. Public schools here number 94, enrolling about 26,702 students, with Shasta Union High, Enterprise Elementary and Redding Elementary among the larger districts (NCES).

• Hospital Kitchen Rental and Temporary Kitchen Trailers: a planned kitchen renovation that removes the main production line for months
• Golf Course and Country Club Kitchen Trailer Rentals: clubhouse renovations in the off-season that run into tournaments
• School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: central kitchens that need a temporary production line during modernization
• Jail and Detention Center Kitchen Trailer Rentals: aging equipment that fails in a facility with no spare kitchen

With about 10,244 residents (2024 estimate), Shasta Lake ranks 374th among 475 covered places in California. The city spans roughly 10.9 square miles in Shasta County. Across Shasta County's 3,776 square miles, 3 places are covered here, together about 114,917 residents, with Redding the largest. Population density is roughly 940 people per square mile. Sacramento, the California capital, is about 154 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. The nearest larger place covered here is Redding, about 7 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.

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.

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 Shasta Lake kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Dunsmuir, 39 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

A failed walk-in freezer is a race against thawing. Call the 24-hour line for an emergency refrigerated trailer; the 20ft MT Refrigerated Trailer lists 220V, single phase, 40 to 60A and a standard receptacle. Mount Shasta sits in Siskiyou County, which has 21 federal declarations on record; a walk-in that fails there starts the same clock on the stock inside.

NOAA's 1991 to 2020 county normals put the average January low in Shasta County at 32°F and the average July high at 91°F, with about 43 inches of precipitation a year. January lows run about 4 degrees colder than the average California county. Frequent rain makes ground conditions the main delivery question, more than distance or trailer length.

Sites near Orland and Chico start from this same list, then adjust for their own pad, power and permits.

• Electrical: confirm the service matches the model, for example 220V single phase at 200 to 220A for the 40ft kitchens.
• Entry: tell us if the door needs a ramp or stairs; the setup times differ.
• Food deliveries: plan where suppliers will unload so they do not block the trailer door.

The site planning guides cover each of these items in more depth.

Facilities near Shasta Lake often compare notes with neighbors. These places are close enough to plan together, measured in straight-line miles from Shasta Lake, not driving distance.

• Redding, CA: about 7 miles from Shasta Lake, about 93,502 residents
• Anderson, CA: about 16 miles from Shasta Lake, about 11,171 residents
• Red Bluff, CA: about 36 miles from Shasta Lake, about 14,286 residents
• Dunsmuir, CA: about 39 miles from Shasta Lake, about 1,618 residents
• Mount Shasta, CA: about 45 miles from Shasta Lake, about 3,124 residents
• Weed, CA: about 51 miles from Shasta Lake, about 2,633 residents

The nearest California counties to Shasta Lake are Trinity County (39 miles), Tehama County (39 miles) and Siskiyou County (63 miles).

• Trinity County: about 39 miles from Shasta Lake, 30 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Tehama County: about 39 miles from Shasta Lake, 23 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Siskiyou County: about 63 miles from Shasta Lake, 21 FEMA declarations since records began, 2 hospitals listed by CMS

Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Shasta Lake. Crews on a long or remote job can add restroom trailer rentals, such as the Standalone Restroom Trailer, or laundry trailer rentals, such as the 24ft Laundry Trailer. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.