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Commerce City, CO Mobile Commercial Kitchen Trailer Rentals
A closed kitchen in Commerce City does not have to close meal service: we rent mobile commercial kitchens, with commercial dishwashing and emergency refrigerated trailers to back them up. The same team handles emergency food service after an equipment failure and planned rentals for renovation or construction work. Terms run from a week to a season: short-term for outages, long-term leases for renovations. Municipal agencies, school districts and hotels are among the customers we rent to. Our team coordinates delivery, placement and setup with your site contacts. Call or send a request to check availability in Commerce City or Brighton.
24/7 emergency line: (877) 416-7535

- Population (2024 est.)
- 70,245
- County
- Adams County
- Land area
- 36.6 sq mi
- FEMA declarations (county)
- 10
Mobile commercial kitchen rental in Commerce City
For Commerce City, a modular kitchen trailer brings griddles, ranges, ovens, sinks and refrigeration in one unit instead of rebuilding them piece by piece. Brighton is only 6 miles away, with about 43,473 residents, and Thornton about 8 miles, so a project that spans them can share one kitchen plan.
Match the trailer to the menu: the 28ft Mobile Kitchen for a focused cooking line, the 40ft Mobile Kitchen for more production room, and the 40ft Bulk Kitchen where bulk cooking or a walk-in cooler matters. Power requirements are shown on every page.
Supporting rentals: warewashing and refrigeration in Commerce City
Dishwashing trailers cover the other half of the line for Commerce City facilities: low-temperature and high-temperature machines, push-through and conveyor styles, in several lengths. Start with the 30ft High-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer. Denver, 10 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.
When a compressor quits, product loss follows within hours. Emergency refrigerated trailers, such as the 20ft LT Refrigerated Trailer, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Commerce City. A walk-in that fails in Northglenn starts the same clock on the stock inside.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 county normals put the average January low in Adams County at 15°F and the average July high at 90°F, with about 16 inches of precipitation a year. July highs run about 8 degrees hotter than the average Colorado county. Hard freezes are routine, so the water hookup is planned with heat tape or an insulated hose, and wastewater lines are kept from freezing between uses.
Customers we support in Commerce City, CO
Kitchen requests in Commerce City tend to fall into a few groups: municipal agencies, school districts, hotels and manufacturers. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Care homes in Federal Heights and school kitchens in Aurora, places of about 13,971 residents and about 403,130 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services counts 6 hospitals in Adams County, among them Children'S Hospital Colorado, HCA Healthone Mountain Ridge, Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital and University of Colorado Hospital Authority. The county also has 14 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 1,764 beds. Public schools here number 165, enrolling about 87,115 students, with Adams 12 Five Star Schools, School District 27J and Westminster Public Schools among the larger districts (NCES).
- Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: emergency operations centers that need to feed responders
- School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: summer cafeteria renovations that run late
- Hotel and Resort Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: equipment failure before a large banquet or event
- Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: cafeteria renovation across multiple shifts
What shapes kitchen rentals in Commerce City, CO
Past emergencies and recovery needs in Commerce City
Federal records show Adams County designated in 10 declarations since 1965, led by flooding (5 declarations) and snowstorm (2 declarations). Brighton has its own page with its county's federal declarations, which helps when a project spans both.
The most recent is Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (major disaster declaration, DR-4229), declared July 16, 2015, with the incident beginning May 4, 2015. Floodwater can contaminate kitchen equipment and force closures until cleanup and inspection are finished, which is when replacement cooking, dishwashing and cold storage matter. By incident type, the count is flooding 5, snowstorm 2, coastal storm 1, wildfire 1 and tornado 1. By decade: 1960s 2, 1970s 1, 2000s 4 and 2010s 3. Earlier declarations include Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4145, September 14, 2013), Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (EM-3365, September 12, 2013), Snow (EM-3270, January 7, 2007), Hurricane Katrina Evacuation (EM-3224, September 5, 2005) and Snow (EM-3185, April 9, 2003).
NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 76 county-based severe-weather event records for Adams County between 2016 and 2025, led by high-wind and thunderstorm events (71) and flood events (5). The costliest event with a reported dollar figure was a flood in May 2023, with about $1 million in property damage. Wind events bring down lines and trees, and a kitchen that loses power cannot keep stock cold for more than a few hours.
The National Interagency Fire Center maps 1 wildfire of 1,000 acres or more that started in Adams County since 2016, together covering about 1,526 acres. The largest was the Shamrock fire in 2020, at 1,526 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.
FEMA declarations apply to designated areas and do not say which individual buildings were affected.
Construction projects and crew meals near Commerce City
Since October 2021, 31 federal construction contracts of $500,000 or more have named Adams County as the place of work. The Department of Defense committed $27 million to “Recap 2b DBB Construction Contract, Buckley Air Force Base, CO” in Adams County, awarded August 2020 (award record). Another public record is “Demo Remediate Clermont North Campus Area,” a $7.2 million Department of Veterans Affairs contract from June 2026 in Adams County (award record). In September 2024, the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $4.2 million contract for “Energy Savings Performance Contract (Espc) to for Denver” in Adams County, with work running to October 2026 (award record). USASpending.gov shows a $4.2 million Department of Defense contract, “Repair Fuel Tanks at Buckley Afb CO and Dyess Afb, TX,” starting September 2020 in Adams County (award record). Crews on projects like this rarely have a restaurant nearby, which is the case for cooking on site with a rented kitchen and a dishwashing trailer. A project in Thornton, about 146,689 residents, would face the same phasing questions about gates, haul roads and pad space.
Rebuilds and remodels around Commerce City
USASpending.gov shows a $4.5 million Department of Veterans Affairs contract, “Replace OR Booms Rmrvamc,” starting April 2023 in Adams County (award record). The Department of Veterans Affairs committed $3.5 million to “Repair, Re-Seal, and Stripe Parking Garages” in Adams County, awarded May 2024 (award record). Whoever remodels in Lochbuie starts from the same two questions: when does the kitchen close, and what feeds people until it reopens?
Emergency access and staging near Commerce City
The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) and local emergency managers decide where public disaster staging happens in Colorado. Those details are theirs to publish and update, so this page points to them instead of guessing at a route. For work in Denver, look to the agencies covering Denver County rather than assuming the same routes.
The nearest hospital in CMS's list is Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital, in Brighton, about 6 miles from Commerce City in a straight line.
What a kitchen rental costs in Commerce City
A quote for Commerce City is built from the trailer you choose, the length of the rental, delivery distance and the setup the site needs. Starting points: the 40ft Mobile Kitchen from $9,995, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen from $6,995 and the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen from $9,995. Prices may vary. Northglenn is quoted on the same factors, but at 10 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.
Commerce City by the numbers
Census estimates put Commerce City at 70,245 people in 2024, 18th of 194 Colorado places covered here. It covers about 36.6 square miles of Adams County. Adams County covers 1,167 square miles and has 10 places on this site, about 965,485 residents between them; the largest is Aurora. Population density is roughly 1,922 people per square mile. In a straight line, Commerce City sits about 10 miles from Denver, the capital of Colorado. Thornton is the closest larger covered place, roughly 8 straight-line miles from Commerce City.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.
Nearby cities and communities
Facilities near Commerce City often compare notes with neighbors. These places are close enough to plan together, measured in straight-line miles from Commerce City, not driving distance.
- Brighton, CO: about 6 miles from Commerce City, about 43,473 residents
- Thornton, CO: about 8 miles from Commerce City, about 146,689 residents
- Lochbuie, CO: about 9 miles from Commerce City, about 8,599 residents
- Denver, CO: about 10 miles from Commerce City, about 729,019 residents
- Northglenn, CO: about 10 miles from Commerce City, about 38,287 residents
- Federal Heights, CO: about 12 miles from Commerce City, about 13,971 residents
Prepare your Commerce City site before delivery
Moving the job to Fort Lupton or Westminster changes the pad and the paperwork; the list below stays the same.
- Food deliveries: plan where suppliers will unload so they do not block the trailer door.
- Timing: share your start date and rental period so the quote reflects the real schedule.
- Pad and access: a level area, a clear approach for the trailer length and room for food deliveries.
Read the site planning section before you fix a delivery date.
Neighboring counties near Commerce City
The nearest Colorado counties to Commerce City are Denver County (10 miles), Broomfield County (14 miles) and Arapahoe County (30 miles).
- Denver County: about 10 miles from Commerce City, 9 FEMA declarations since records began, 7 hospitals listed by CMS
- Broomfield County: about 14 miles from Commerce City, 4 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
- Arapahoe County: about 30 miles from Commerce City, 10 FEMA declarations since records began, 4 hospitals listed by CMS
When the project needs more than a kitchen
Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Commerce City. Crews on a long or remote job can add laundry trailer rentals, such as the 24ft Laundry Trailer, or shower and restroom combination trailer rentals, such as the 22ft Six-Stall Shower and Restroom Trailer. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long can I keep a kitchen trailer in Commerce City?
Rental periods start at one week and run by the month. A short outage may need one or two weeks; a renovation can lease a kitchen for many months. Ask about long-term leasing when you request a quote.
What power does a kitchen trailer need in Commerce City?
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.
How do I get emergency refrigeration in Commerce City?
Call the 24-hour line and describe the failure, your address and the product you need to protect. Emergency refrigerated trailers are 20ft units listed at 32°F, 15°F and -5°F and need a 220V single-phase supply rated 40 to 60A. Availability depends on the unit and your location.
What should I prepare before delivery in Commerce City?
A level pad, a clear approach for the trailer, the right electrical service, potable water, a wastewater route and a contact to meet the delivery. Our site planning guides walk through each item.
Why Organizations Choose Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service
When a permanent kitchen is unavailable in Commerce City, the question is how quickly food service can safely resume. Dependable mobile commercial kitchen rentals and a team that has done site setup before keep that answer practical.
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Accelerated Deployment
Early conversations about electrical service and placement keep the delivery day short.
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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
Help with site planning, equipment selection and delivery coordination keeps the details from falling to you.
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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
Trailer kitchens carry the same classes of equipment used in permanent commercial kitchens.
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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.
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