Star, ID Temporary Commercial Kitchen Rental and Lease Options

Emergency food service in Star often starts with one question: where will the next meal be cooked? A commercial kitchen trailer on a level pad gives the answer while the permanent kitchen is out of action. A project that crosses into Eagle (about 33,451 residents) usually keeps one menu, one crew and one power plan, which is why the kitchen is chosen first.

Match the trailer to the menu: the 40ft Mobile Kitchen for a focused cooking line, the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen for more production room, and the 38ft Mobile Kitchen where bulk cooking or a walk-in cooler matters. Power requirements are shown on every page.

Kitchen requests in Star tend to fall into a few groups: municipal agencies, hotels, nursing homes and manufacturers. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Garden City (about 12,936 residents) and Emmett (about 8,803 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.

CMS lists 3 hospitals in Canyon County: Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa, ST Luke'S Nampa Medical Center and West Valley Medical Center. Certified nursing care adds 7 homes and roughly 622 beds. The National Center for Education Statistics counts 83 public schools with about 42,375 students, in districts such as Nampa School District, Vallivue School District and Caldwell District.

• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: public buildings under renovation
• Hotel and Resort Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: a need for emergency cold storage while the walk-in is repaired
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: kitchen upgrades or code corrections that take the line out of service
• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: plant shutdowns and turnarounds that bring in extra contractors

With about 18,208 residents (2024 estimate), Star ranks 16th among 128 covered places in Idaho. It covers about 11.5 square miles and lies in Canyon County and Ada County. Across Canyon County's 587 square miles, 9 places are covered here, together about 226,322 residents, with Nampa the largest. That works out to about 1,582 residents per square mile. Boise City, the Idaho capital, is about 15 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. Eagle is the closest larger covered place, roughly 6 straight-line miles from Star.

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.

Pair the kitchen with dishwashing. The 22 to 26ft Low-Temp Dishwashing Trailer lists push-through low-temperature dishwasher, a three-compartment sink and a handwashing sink, on 220V, single phase, 150A. Nampa, 9 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 Cooler Trailer, 32°F, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Star. A walk-in that fails in Caldwell starts the same clock on the stock inside.

A typical January night in Canyon County drops to 24°F, a typical July afternoon reaches 93°F, and the county gets about 10 inches of precipitation in a year (NOAA, 1991 to 2020). January lows run about 6 degrees warmer than the average Idaho county. Little rain does not make site planning simple; water in and wastewater out still decide whether a temporary kitchen can open.

Sites in Kuna, 13 miles away, and Boise City use the same checklist; only the pad and the paperwork change.

• Drainage: decide where wastewater goes, whether a sewer connection, a tank or scheduled pump-out.
• Food deliveries: plan where suppliers will unload so they do not block the trailer door.
• Electrical: confirm the service matches the model, for example 220V single phase at 200 to 220A for the 40ft kitchens.

Read the site planning section before you fix a delivery date.

A shared kitchen need can span several communities. The nearest places to Star are listed with their straight-line distance; road distance and delivery time will differ.

• Eagle, ID: about 6 miles from Star, about 33,451 residents
• Middleton, ID: about 6 miles from Star, about 11,730 residents
• Meridian, ID: about 8 miles from Star, about 139,740 residents
• Nampa, ID: about 9 miles from Star, about 117,350 residents
• Caldwell, ID: about 9 miles from Star, about 73,088 residents

The nearest Idaho counties to Star are Payette County (24 miles), Gem County (25 miles) and Boise County (43 miles).

• Payette County: about 24 miles from Star, 4 FEMA declarations since records began, 0 hospitals listed by CMS
• Gem County: about 25 miles from Star, 5 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Boise County: about 43 miles from Star, 5 FEMA declarations since records began, 0 hospitals listed by CMS

Mobile kitchens in Star come first, and the rest follows from the site. Where crews live and work on site, shower trailer rentals (for example the 20ft Five-Stall Shower Container) and remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers (the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer) can sit beside the kitchen. We confirm the exact unit and price in a written quote.