Poplar, MT Mobile Commercial Kitchen Trailer Rentals

When a permanent kitchen in Poplar is closed for renovation, repairs or an equipment failure, a rented mobile commercial kitchen lets meal service continue from a trailer parked on site. If the work spills into Wolf Point, 21 miles from here, or into Plentywood, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Match the trailer to the menu: the 24ft Mobile Kitchen for a focused cooking line, the 38ft Mobile Kitchen for more production room, and the 28ft Mobile Kitchen where bulk cooking or a walk-in cooler matters. Power requirements are shown on every page.

A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 38ft Low-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer (220V, single phase, 220A) handles trays, plates and pans so Poplar kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Glasgow, 66 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 Poplar. Glendive sits in Dawson County, which has 8 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 Roosevelt County at 2°F and the average July high at 84°F, with about 14 inches of precipitation a year. January lows run about 10 degrees colder than the average Montana 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.

Kitchen requests in Poplar tend to fall into a few groups: municipal agencies, school districts, construction crews and manufacturers. Our industry pages explain what each group usually needs and how a rental is planned around it. Miles City (about 8,407 residents) and Malta (about 1,853 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 3 hospitals in Roosevelt County, all critical access: Poplar Community Hospital, Roosevelt Medical Center and Trinity Hospital. The county also has 1 nursing home certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 60 beds. Public schools here number 22, enrolling about 2,369 students, with Poplar Elem, Wolf Point Elem and Poplar H S 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: central kitchens that need a temporary production line during modernization
• Construction Site Mobile Kitchen Rentals for Crews: a need for dishwashing, cold storage and a kitchen together
• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: cafeteria renovation across multiple shifts

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.

Poplar is the 69th most populous of the 81 Montana places this site covers, with an estimated 722 residents in 2024. The city spans roughly 0.3 square miles in Roosevelt County. Across Roosevelt County's 2,355 square miles, 3 places are covered here, together about 3,950 residents, with Wolf Point the largest. Population density is roughly 2,597 people per square mile. In a straight line, Poplar sits about 336 miles from Helena, the capital of Montana. The nearest larger place covered here is Wolf Point, about 21 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.

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

• Wolf Point, MT: about 21 miles from Poplar, about 2,522 residents
• Plentywood, MT: about 55 miles from Poplar, about 1,626 residents
• Sidney, MT: about 55 miles from Poplar, about 6,031 residents
• Glasgow, MT: about 66 miles from Poplar, about 3,169 residents
• Glendive, MT: about 73 miles from Poplar, about 4,760 residents
• Miles City, MT: about 122 miles from Poplar, about 8,407 residents

Sites in Baker, 128 miles away, and Forsyth use the same checklist; only the pad and the paperwork change.

• Power: check the panel and service against the trailer's listed requirement before anything is scheduled.
• Health review: ask Roosevelt County environmental health or the local authority what a temporary kitchen needs to be approved.
• 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.

The nearest Montana counties to Poplar are Richland County (37 miles), McCone County (42 miles) and Daniels County (50 miles).

• Richland County: about 37 miles from Poplar, 6 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• McCone County: about 42 miles from Poplar, 8 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Daniels County: about 50 miles from Poplar, 6 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Poplar. Crews on a long or remote job can add bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals, such as the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit, or restroom trailer rentals, such as the Standalone Restroom Trailer. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.