City in Oregon
Dayton, OR Temporary Commercial Kitchen Rental and Lease Options
Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service rents mobile commercial kitchen trailers to facilities in Dayton, Oregon, with commercial dishwashing trailers and emergency refrigerated trailers as supporting services. Use us for emergency meal service during sudden outages as well as planned kitchen renovations and construction projects. Terms run from a week to a season: short-term for outages, long-term leases for renovations. Our rentals go to commercial and public customers, from golf clubs, school districts and disaster-response teams. Our team coordinates delivery, placement and setup with your site contacts. Ask for availability and a quote for Dayton, or for a project in Lafayette.
24/7 emergency line: (877) 416-7535

- Population (2024 est.)
- 2,663
- County
- Yamhill County
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- FEMA declarations (county)
- 17
Kitchen trailers for rent in Dayton, OR
A mobile kitchen trailer rental in Dayton puts a complete commercial cooking line beside the building that needs it, so a closed kitchen does not have to mean closed meal service. A project that crosses into Lafayette (about 4,627 residents) usually keeps one menu, one crew and one power plan, which is why the kitchen is chosen first.
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, 24ft Mobile Kitchen and 38ft Mobile Kitchen are the models to compare first, each with its listed equipment and electrical requirements.
Supporting rentals: warewashing and refrigeration in Dayton
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. Carlton, 7 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 Cooler Trailer, 32°F lists 220V, single phase, 40 to 60A and a standard receptacle. A call about emergency refrigeration from Newberg starts with the same three questions: what failed, what is inside and where the trailer can sit.
A typical January night in Yamhill County drops to 36°F, a typical July afternoon reaches 79°F, and the county gets about 60 inches of precipitation in a year (NOAA, 1991 to 2020). January lows run about 7 degrees warmer than the average Oregon county. Frequent rain makes ground conditions the main delivery question, more than distance or trailer length.
Dayton: emergencies, projects, access and costs
Emergencies that shaped recovery needs near Dayton
Since 1964, Yamhill County has been named in 17 FEMA declarations; severe storms (10 declarations) and flooding (3 declarations) lead the list. If you plan across towns, check the page for Lafayette as well; its own declaration history is listed there.
The most recent is Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (major disaster declaration, DR-4907), declared April 7, 2026, with the incident beginning December 15, 2025. 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 severe storms 10, flooding 3, wildfire 2, coastal storm 1 and earthquake 1. By decade: 1960s 1, 1970s 1, 1990s 3, 2000s 6, 2010s 1 and 2020s 5. Earlier declarations include Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4768, April 13, 2024), Severe Winter Storm (DR-4599, May 4, 2021), Wildfires and Straight-Line Winds (DR-4562, September 15, 2020), Chehalem Mountain Bald Peak Fire (FM-5371, September 10, 2020) and Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides (DR-4258, February 17, 2016).
Between 2016 and 2025 the Storm Events Database recorded 4 county-based event records in Yamhill County, with flood events the most common at 3. Flooding fouls kitchen equipment and drainage first, and a kitchen cannot reopen until it has been cleaned and inspected.
NIFC lists no wildfire of 1,000 acres or more starting in Yamhill County since 2016. Smoke and power shutoffs travel farther than fires do, though: the nearest large fire on record began in Marion County, about 43 miles away, where the Beachie Creek fire burned 193,615 acres in 2020.
A declaration designates an area for federal assistance; it does not describe damage at any one address.
Major construction near Dayton
USASpending.gov shows no federal construction contract of $500,000 or more with Yamhill County as the place of work since October 2021. The nearest is in Washington County, about 24 miles away. Another public record is “Or-Wapato Lake Pump Station Rehab,” a $1.3 million Department of the Interior contract from July 2019 in Washington County (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 Dundee (about 3,200 residents) raises the same crew-meal questions.
Renovation projects that close kitchens in Dayton
When school cafeterias, senior centers and municipal buildings in Dayton are remodeled, food service rarely stops for the project. A temporary kitchen on a long-term lease is the usual way to keep it running. Whoever remodels in McMinnville starts from the same two questions: when does the kitchen close, and what feeds people until it reopens?
This is a planning example, not a past customer.
Emergency access and staging near Dayton
The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) and local emergency managers decide where public disaster staging happens in Oregon. Those details are theirs to publish and update, so this page points to them instead of guessing at a route. For work in Carlton, look to the agencies covering that area rather than assuming the same routes.
The nearest hospital in CMS's list is Willamette Valley Medical Center, in McMinnville, about 6 miles from Dayton in a straight line.
Local rental costs in Dayton
There is no single price for every job in Dayton. Equipment, rental term, delivery and site conditions all change it. As a guide, prices start at the 38ft Mobile Kitchen from $7,995, the 40ft Mobile Combo Kitchen from $9,995 and the 40ft Mobile Kitchen from $9,995, and they may vary. Newberg is quoted on the same factors, but at 8 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.
Customers we support in Dayton, OR
Expect requests in Dayton from golf clubs, school districts, disaster-response teams and jails. A country club kitchen trailer is a typical first conversation, followed by questions about power, water and placement. Care homes in Amity and school kitchens in Yamhill, places of about 1,775 residents and about 1,215 residents, lose their lines for different reasons, but the rental that answers them is the same.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services counts 2 hospitals in Yamhill County: Providence Newberg Medical Center and Willamette Valley Medical Center. The county also has 6 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 417 beds. Public schools here number 34, enrolling about 14,852 students, with Mcminnville Sd 40, Newberg Sd 29J and Sheridan Sd 48J among the larger districts (NCES).
- Golf Course and Country Club Kitchen Trailer Rentals: member dining and event service that continue during construction
- School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: central kitchens that need a temporary production line during modernization
- Disaster Response Kitchen Rentals and Emergency Food Service: dishwashing capacity where utilities are limited
- Jail and Detention Center Kitchen Trailer Rentals: aging equipment that fails in a facility with no spare kitchen
About Dayton, OR
With about 2,663 residents (2024 estimate), Dayton ranks 105th among 191 covered places in Oregon. The city spans roughly 0.8 square miles in Yamhill County. Across Yamhill County's 716 square miles, 11 places are covered here, together about 87,475 residents, with McMinnville the largest. Population density is roughly 3,185 people per square mile. In a straight line, Dayton sits about 21 miles from Salem, the capital of Oregon. Lafayette is the closest larger covered place, roughly 2 straight-line miles from Dayton.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.
Prepare your Dayton site before delivery
Sites in Donald, 12 miles away, and Woodburn use the same checklist; only the pad and the paperwork change.
- Contacts: name the person who will meet the delivery and the person who will approve the setup.
- Food deliveries: plan where suppliers will unload so they do not block the trailer door.
- Access steps: ramp setup takes about 4 to 6 hours and stairs 5 to 15 minutes, so say early if the door needs either.
See the site planning guides for power, water, wastewater and placement detail.
Nearby cities and communities
Crews and facilities working around Dayton also look at the nearby places below. Distances are straight-line estimates between the places, not driving routes.
- Lafayette, OR: about 2 miles from Dayton, about 4,627 residents
- Dundee, OR: about 5 miles from Dayton, about 3,200 residents
- McMinnville, OR: about 6 miles from Dayton, about 35,255 residents
- Carlton, OR: about 7 miles from Dayton, about 2,273 residents
- Newberg, OR: about 8 miles from Dayton, about 27,136 residents
- Amity, OR: about 9 miles from Dayton, about 1,775 residents
Neighboring counties near Dayton
The nearest Oregon counties to Dayton are Washington County (23 miles), Polk County (27 miles) and Marion County (33 miles).
- Washington County: about 23 miles from Dayton, 15 FEMA declarations since records began, 5 hospitals listed by CMS
- Polk County: about 27 miles from Dayton, 13 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
- Marion County: about 33 miles from Dayton, 13 FEMA declarations since records began, 4 hospitals listed by CMS
Beyond the kitchen: facilities for longer jobs
For a base camp the kitchen is the center of the day. Beside mobile kitchens in Dayton, a job can add laundry trailer rentals or remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers; the 24ft Laundry Trailer and the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer are two examples. Rent only what the project needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you rent dishwashing as well as a kitchen in Dayton?
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.
Who rents mobile kitchens near Dayton?
Commercial, institutional and public customers: golf clubs, school districts, disaster-response teams and jails. We do not rent to households.
Does a temporary kitchen in Dayton need a health permit?
The local health authority usually reviews temporary food-service facilities, and requirements differ by jurisdiction. Yamhill County environmental health or the Oregon health department can tell you what applies. We can supply equipment lists to support the review.
How do I get emergency refrigeration in Dayton?
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.
Why Organizations Choose Emergency Commercial Mobile Kitchen Service
A temporary kitchen is only useful if it fits the site, the power and the menu. That is why mobile commercial kitchen rentals for Dayton start with questions about your operation, not just a trailer size.
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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
The line is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for emergency rental requests and project questions.
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End-to-End Project Support
Questions about permits, water, power and wastewater are part of the conversation, not an afterthought.
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Flexible Rental Solutions
Rentals run from one week to monthly terms, with short-term and long-term options for planned and emergency needs.
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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
Planning the path in, the pad and the connections together avoids surprises on delivery day.
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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