Disaster Relief & Emergency Response
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Disaster Relief & Emergency Response

Temporary Kitchen for Disaster Relief & Emergency Response

Mass-feeding capacity for recovery operations, staged and operational where infrastructure is rebuilding.

When disaster strikes, feeding can't wait

In times of crisis, reliable food service is critical for first responders, displaced communities, and affected institutions. Permanent kitchens may be damaged, destroyed, or inaccessible — but feeding thousands of people every day cannot stop. Kitchen Corps delivers fully equipped, code-compliant commercial kitchens that can be mobilized fast and operational on site while infrastructure is being rebuilt.

  • Temporary Kitchen for Disaster Relief & Emergency Response

    The challenge

    Disaster zones often lack power, water infrastructure, and safe cooking facilities. Existing kitchens may be structurally compromised or condemned. Emergency feeding operations need to start within hours or days — not weeks — while meeting health and safety codes in chaotic, resource-limited conditions.

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    The solution

    Kitchen Corps deploys self-contained, transportable commercial kitchens built to all international building codes. Our Rapid Response Kitchen can be on site in as little as 48 hours with onboard water tanks and quick utility connections. For larger operations, production kitchen trailers scale from 2,000 to 5,000+ meals per day — engineered, delivered, and operational by one in-house team.

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Disaster Relief & Emergency Response

Single Production Kitchen

Single Production Kitchen

  • 8.5′×53′

  • 450 sqft

  • 2,000 Meals

Equipped with a complete commercial cooking line, prep area, three-compartment sink, hand sink, and walk-in cold storage to support full-scale foodservice operations

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Freezer Prep Unit

Freezer Prep Unit

  • 8.5'×53'

  • 450 sqft

  • Ideal when paired with a production kitchen

Dedicated walk-in freezer with food preparation space to pair with any cookline.

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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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Past projects

MCN Build – Whittier Elementary School

KCI built a 1,352 sq. ft. semi-permanent kitchen for Whittier Elementary, designed for reuse on future school renovation projects.

  • Washington D.C.

  • 900 Meals per day

  • 1,300 Sq. Ft.

  • Semi- Permanent

Three-unit semi-permanent KCI commercial kitchen facility installed for Whittier Elementary School’s temporary swing campus in Washington, DC.
Production of three-unit semi-permanent KCI commercial kitchen facility installed for Whittier Elementary School’s temporary swing campus in Washington, DC.
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Citizens memorial Hospital Temporary Kitchen

KCI Provided a 2,500 SqFt 5-wide temporary kitchen for CMH, maintaining full food-service operations throughout a 24-month renovation

  • Bolivar, MO

  • 1,500 Meals Per Day

  • 2,500 SqFt

  • 24 Months

KCI Temporary Kitchens five-wide temporary kitchen facility being installed at Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Missouri.
Interior of KCI’s 2,500 sq. ft. five-wide temporary hospital kitchen featuring commercial cooking, prep, warewashing, and stainless-steel work areas.
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Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health

KCI provided a 1,350 sq. ft. three-wide temporary kitchen to maintain food service during renovations at Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health.

  • North Charleston, SC

  • 350-400 Meals Per Day

  • 1,350 Sq. Ft.

  • 12+ Months / Ongoing

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Planning a Kitchen Renovation?

Keep food service running without interruption. KCI designs and deploys temporary commercial kitchen facilities tailored to your operation, site, and project timeline.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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M.T. Crites
United States Marine Corps

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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