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Temporary Kitchen for Universities & Higher Ed

Dining hall and residential feeding that keeps students fed — through renovations, expansions, and peak-season surges.

  • Students don't stop eating because the dining hall is closed

    University dining operations feed thousands of students, faculty, and staff across multiple locations and meal periods every day. When a dining hall kitchen undergoes renovation or expansion, the campus still expects the same quality, variety, and capacity — especially during move-in week, homecoming, and finals. Off-campus alternatives don’t scale, and meal plan obligations don’t pause for construction.

  • Full dining production on campus, operational before move-in day

    Kitchen Corps installs a temporary commercial kitchen on your campus that replicates your permanent dining operation — full production cookline, cold storage, warewashing, and prep space. Your dining team continues preparing the same menus at the same volume, on the same campus. Units are positioned to connect directly to your dining halls and service points, so students walk in and eat like nothing changed.

Why Universities & Higher Ed operators call us

When the kitchen goes down, feeding can’t. Here’s what matters most.

Meal plan continuity

Students on residential meal plans expect full dining service every day — temporary kitchen maintains the same capacity, variety, and quality.

Peak-season ready

Move-in week, orientation, homecoming, and finals drive meal counts far above normal. Temporary capacity absorbs the surge without overloading your team.

Campus-integrated installation

Units are positioned on your campus with direct access to dining halls, service corridors, and loading areas — engineered to your site layout and pedestrian flow.

Multi-year renovation support

University kitchen rebuilds routinely stretch 12–24 months. Every unit is built to permanent commercial standards for reliable long-term deployment.University kitchen rebuilds routinely stretch 12–24 months. Every unit is built to permanent commercial standards for reliable long-term deployment.University kitchen rebuilds routinely stretch 12–24 months. Every unit is built to permanent commercial standards for reliable long-term deployment.University kitchen rebuilds routinely stretch 12–24 months. Every unit is built to permanent commercial standards for reliable long-term deployment.University kitchen rebuilds routinely stretch 12–24 months. Every unit is built to permanent commercial standards for reliable long-term deployment.University kitchen rebuilds routinely stretch 12–24 months. Every unit is built to permanent commercial standards for reliable long-term deployment.

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Universities & Higher Ed

3 Wide Kitchen Facility

3-Wide Kitchen Facility

  • 25.5'×53'

  • 1,352 sqft

  • 4,000 Meals

Our most popular rental equipped with full hot, cold, and dish zones. Build for seamless operations as a full commercial kitchen replacement.

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5 Wide Kitchen Facility

5-Wide Kitchen Facility

  • 42.5'×53'

  • 2,253 sqft

  • 5,000 Meals

The 5-wide facility is the flagship of the KCI fleet. Featuring all the capabilities of your 3-wide facilities plus expanded cold and dry storage, it offers the ultimate temporary kitchen solution for clients requiring maximum production capacity, storage, and operational flexibility.

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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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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.

Testimonial Temporary Kitchen
Matthew Moss
Regional Director, ARAMARK

An 18-month renovation, zero interruption to patient and cafeteria food service. Kitchen Corps made a hard project feel routine.

Testimonial Kitchen Corps
Allen Pemberton
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.

Testimonial Kitchen
Matthew Moss
United States Marine Corps

Past projects

UTMB Galveston

A 15,000 sq ft temporary kitchen facility served patient meals and retail dining for a 9,000-person hospital campus through a multi-year permanent-kitchen rebuild.

  • Galveston, Texas

  • 9,000 meals / day

  • 15,000 sq ft

  • 3 months

UTMB Galveston
UTMB Galveston
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U.S. Marine Corps

Containerized mess kitchen supporting Marine Corps operations through a rapidly-evolving deployment, federal procurement, security-cleared, mobilized fast.

  • Florida

  • 3,000 meals / day

  • 160 sq ft

  • 5 months

U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Marine Corps
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Carolina Village

A multi-phase temporary kitchen kept resident dining running at a senior living community through a full production and warewashing renovation.

  • North carolina

  • 1,200 meals/day

  • 680 sq ft

  • 12 months

Carolina Village
Carolina Village
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Your project could be next.

When your kitchen can't go dark, you need more than a trailer. Kitchen Corps engineers, builds and installs a full commercial kitchen on your site, running the day you need it.

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When your kitchen can’t go dark, we keep you serving

Tell us about your project and we’ll engineer, build and install a full commercial kitchen on your site — running the day you need it.

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