Shipping Container Kitchens

Description

Two situations drive most container kitchen orders: the kitchen you have is too small, or it stands in the wrong place. Clubs, function venues and holiday parks meet the second one constantly — cooking happens indoors while the trade is outside, and every trip across that gap shaves something off the service. A second kitchen next to the demand closes it. Units are fabricated away from your premises and delivered finished, so you are not hosting trades for weeks or closing for a fortnight.

Sizes and dimensions

• 10ft external: 2.991 × 2.438 × 2.591 m (9 ft 10 in × 8 ft 0 in × 8 ft 6 in)
• 20ft external: 6.058 × 2.438 × 2.591 m (19 ft 10 in × 8 ft 0 in × 8 ft 6 in)
• 40ft external: 12.192 × 2.438 × 2.591 m (40 ft × 8 ft × 8 ft 6 in)
• High cube option: adds 305 mm (12 in) of internal height

Why a kitchen build differs from a cafe conversion

A serving counter and a cooking line are not the same brief. A commercial kitchen has to carry heavier appliance loads, far more extraction, and a ventilation specification that works when the line is running hot at both ends of a service. That is why these are specified separately from cafe units: the electrical provision, the extraction and the layout all step up. Get the extraction wrong and the unit is unusable in July regardless of how good the equipment inside it is.

Build and specification

• Fabricated off site and delivered complete, so trading carries on uninterrupted
• 10ft, 20ft and 40ft shells, in standard height or high cube
• A shell can be shortened or lengthened where the footprint is awkward
• Commercial appliances chosen to suit the menu you intend to cook
• Cor-Ten steel throughout: hoses down after service and locks shut
• Awnings that lock, heavy duty, plus flush-fit personnel doors
• Ventilation sized for early prep as well as late service
• An insulated shell, with air conditioning as an option
• Sited permanently or moved on between locations

Who these are built for

Restaurants adding outdoor covers, local authorities running park and leisure catering, holiday parks and campsites, workforce catering on remote projects, and retail and event sites where the food offer sits away from the main building. The common factor is a fixed kitchen in the wrong place and no appetite for a construction programme to move it.

Delivery, services and cover

Delivery is free UK-wide, including Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and the price shown is the total payable with no VAT added at checkout. These are made to order, so work to the specialist lead-time band in our shipping policy. Settle the services early — a commercial kitchen needs a substantial electrical supply, a water feed and a drainage connection at the position where it will stand, and those are the items that delay commissioning far more often than the unit itself. Plan a firm, level standing bearing at all four corners; crane or HIAB offload is agreed in writing before delivery. Fabrication workmanship is covered for 12 months, and separately you have 14 days to change your mind under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 and a 30-day right to reject the goods if faulty under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

Kitchen, cafe or crew catering?

A full cooking line is not always what the job calls for. Where the offer is drinks and food prepared in advance, our 20ft container cafe conversion suits better, and anyone trading from site to site should look instead at the 14ft fully equipped food trailer. Catering for a workforce rather than paying customers is a different job again, and the unit built for it is our container lunch rooms. Conversions all appear under modified containers; send us your equipment schedule and we will price the build.