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Temporary Kitchen for Colleges & Universities

Keep campus dining running while your permanent kitchen is renovated, expanded or replaced.

Plan Your Temporary Kitchen
temporary kitchen for Colleges & Universities

University of Texas Medical Branch
15,000 sq. ft. Custom Built Production Facility

Built for the Demands of Campus Dining

Support your dining team with a temporary kitchen planned around daily meal volume, diverse menus, and campus service schedules.

Maintain Campus Meal Service

Give your dining team a dedicated production space to support students, faculty, and staff while your permanent kitchen is under construction.

Capacity Around Your Dining Program

Configure cooking, preparation, cold storage, and warewashing areas around your menus, meal periods, and peak production needs.

Fit Your Campus Operations

Plan the kitchen location and layout around available space, staff workflow, deliveries, and access to dining service areas.

Delivery and Installation Support

KCI handles delivery and installation and assists your project team in coordinating site access and utility connections.

Campus Kitchen Projects in Practice

University of Minnesota Daluth

Daluth, MN
1,800 sq. ft. 3-wide Facility + Cooler/Freezer
Supported 7,500 Meals/Day

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston, TX
15,000 sq. ft. Custom Built Kitchen Facility
Supported 9,000 Meals/Day

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5-Wide Kitchen Facility

  • 42.5'×53'

  • 2,253 sqft

  • 5,000 Meals/Day

Our largest temporary kitchen configuration, providing expanded cooking, prep, warewashing, refrigeration, freezer, and storage capacity for high-volume operations.

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3 Wide Kitchen Facility

3-Wide Kitchen Facility

  • 25.5'×53'

  • 1,352 sqft

  • 4,000 Meals/Day

Our most popular multi-unit configuration, combining cooking, prep, refrigeration, warewashing, and storage for full commercial kitchen replacement.

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Dishwashing & Prep Unit

Dishwashing & Prep Unit

  • 8.5'×53'

  • 450 sqft

  • 5000 Dishes/hour

Dedicated warewashing, three-compartment sinks and prep space to pair with any cookline.

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Plan Your Kitchen Transition Around the Academic Calendar

Review the Campus

Identify available space, delivery routes, utility requirements, and access between the temporary kitchen and dining service areas.

Configure the Kitchen

Plan equipment and work areas around residential dining, retail food service, catering, and your daily production needs.

Prepare the Transition

Plan installation, equipment testing, and staff preparation around semester breaks, campus activities, and construction milestones.

When Your Kitchen Can't Stop,
We Keep You Serving

Tell us about your project.  We’ll help you plan a temporary kitchen around your operation, your site and your timeline.

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