KCI is a woman-owned, second-generation family business based in Chesapeake, Virginia. Since 1997, we’ve helped institutions and worksites plan temporary kitchen facilities around their operations, available space, and project schedules.
Temporary Commercial Kitchens
Built to Keep Food Service Running
Temporary commercial kitchens for renovations, new construction, and disaster recovery—designed, delivered, and installed for institutions and worksites nationwide.
30 Years of Experience
Code-Compliant Facilities
Expert Support
Nationwide Deployment
The Institutional Temporary Kitchen Specialist
KCI designs and fabricates temporary commercial kitchens at our Chesapeake, Virginia facility—helping institutions maintain critical foodservice operations during renovations, construction, and unexpected shutdowns.
ABOUT KCISINCE 1997
Temporary Kitchen Specialists
500+
Units Deployed
NATIONWIDE
Projects Deployed
Temporary Kitchen Models
From single production kitchens to full-scale multi-unit facilities, KCI offers configurations for a range of food service capacities and site requirements.
Single Production Kitchen
8.5′×53′
450 sq ft
2,000 Meals/Day
Full commercial cooking, prep, warewashing, and cold storage in one compact 8.5' × 53' temporary kitchen facility.
3-Wide Kitchen Facility
25.5'×53'
1,352 sq ft
4,000 Meals/Day
Our most popular multi-unit configuration, combining cooking, prep, refrigeration, warewashing, and storage for full commercial kitchen replacement.
5-Wide Kitchen Facility
42.5'×53'
2,253 sq ft
5,000 Meals/Day
Our largest temporary kitchen configuration, providing expanded cooking, prep, warewashing, refrigeration, freezer, and storage capacity for high-volume operations.
Freezer Prep Unit
8.5'×53'
450 sq ft
Ideal when paired with a production kitchen
Dedicated walk-in freezer with food preparation space to pair with any cookline.
Dishwashing & Prep Unit
8.5'×53'
450 sq ft
5000 Dishes/hour
Dedicated warewashing, three-compartment sinks and prep space to pair with any cookline.
Custom Facility
Custom to Project
Scalable/Custom sq ft
Designed to Meal Volume
Custom temporary kitchen facilities designed around your operation, meal volume, equipment requirements, available space, and project conditions.
When your permanent kitchen goes down, you can keep serving
From single production kitchens to multi-unit facilities, KCI designs, delivers, and installs temporary kitchen space around your operation, site, and timeline.
Why operators call us
Keep meal production on site while your permanent kitchen is renovated, built, or restored.
Kitchen Renovations
Maintain on-site meal production while your existing kitchen is remodeled, expanded, or replaced.
LEARN MORE →New Construction
Provide temporary kitchen capacity while your permanent foodservice facility is under construction.
LEARN MORE →Disaster Recovery
Reestablish on-site meal production while damaged kitchen facilities are repaired or rebuilt.
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Projects in Practice
A selection of temporary kitchen projects demonstrating KCI's experience across essential foodservice environments.
Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health
North Charleston, SC | 3-Wide Facility
A 3-Wide Facility maintaining essential foodservice during facility renovations.
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Citizens Memorial Hospital
Bolivar, MO | 5-Wide Facility
A 5-Wide Facility supporting uninterrupted hospital foodservice during a 24-month renovation.
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MCN Build – Whittier Elementary School
Washington D.C. | 3-Wide Facility
A semi-permanent kitchen designed to support school renovations and future reuse.
View Project
What operators ask first
KCI provides temporary commercial kitchen facilities for kitchen renovations, new construction, and disaster recovery. We work with institutions and worksites that need space for meal production while permanent kitchen facilities are being built, updated, or repaired.
Contact us as soon as you have an anticipated project schedule. Early planning gives your team time to review kitchen requirements, equipment availability, site access, and utility connections before the permanent kitchen goes out of service. Availability and scheduling depend on the scope of your project.
Yes. KCI provides nationwide delivery for temporary kitchen projects. Transportation and delivery arrangements are planned around your location, facility configuration, site access, and project schedule.
KCI delivers and installs the temporary kitchen facility and assists your project team in coordinating site access and utility connections. Responsibilities for site preparation, utility work, and other project requirements should be established during planning and confirmed in the project scope.
Articles & Resources
Don’t just take our word for it
They handled engineering, delivery and install as one team. We coordinated with one company and the kitchen was serving on the date they promised.
MM
Regional Director, ARAMARK
An 18-month renovation, zero interruption to patient and cafeteria food service. Kitchen Corps made a hard project feel routine.
AP
Dir. Food & Nutrition, UTMB Galveston
When our galley went down we needed feeding capability fast. A compliant unit was on-site and operational inside the window they committed to.
MC
United States Marine Corps
