Burbank, California · the San Fernando Valley
Temporary Freezer & Refrigeration Trailers for Rent in Burbank
KryoFridge is the freezer trailer team Burbank businesses call first, and we have been renting equipment to this industry for more than 30 years. Your unit arrives dialed in and ready to load on day one, whether it is parked at a Media District base camp, tucked behind a Magnolia Park kitchen, or backed into a dock at the Empire Center. Studios, caterers, restaurants and grocers here keep our number because we answer at two in the morning and we own every trailer we send. Call us or request a quote and we will confirm your dates today.
✓ NSF Approved✓ Licensed & Insured✓ ~45-Min Burbank Delivery✓ Owner Operated, Never a Reseller
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The Most Experienced Refrigerated Trailer Rental Team in Burbank
We run one of the largest refrigerated and freezer trailer fleets in the West, backed by more than 30 years in the event and equipment rental business. KryoFridge is owner operated, so you deal directly with the family that owns the trailers instead of a broker who still has to go find one. We are licensed, insured and NSF ready, and dispatch runs 24 hours a day, because walk-in coolers do not fail politely at ten in the morning. Some of the most recognized brands in America trust these units, including McDonald's, Chick-fil-A and Dutch Bros Coffee. From this same fleet we handle California refrigerated trailer rentals and out to all 50 states. Pick up the phone and we will tell you in two minutes whether we can be at your site today.
Our portable refrigeration units sit minutes out, not a day out
Our trailers sit staged around Burbank, fueled, pre-cooled, and maintained in-house, parked and waiting for the call rather than being sourced after it. That is why an emergency call usually puts a unit on your lot and pulling temperature in about 45 minutes.
We own every one of our refrigerated trailers, never a broker
The voice on the phone belongs to the same outfit that owns the trailer and sends the driver. No reseller in the middle quietly marking up somebody else's equipment while your inventory creeps past 40°F on the shelf.
More refrigerated trailers on hand than anyone near Burbank
Every unit is ours to own, service, and deliver, and each one swings between deep-freeze and fresh-cold on a precise digital set-point. So we can size the answer to your Burbank job and turn it around the same day rather than putting you on next week's list.
The chains that rely on our trailers
National chains do not gamble on refrigeration. A drifting set-point during dinner rush can cost a brand a day of sales and a health-code headache, so the chains that scale fast vet a cold-storage partner the same careful way they vet a protein supplier. KryoFridge has held temperature for names like McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, and Dutch Bros, and earned the repeat call.
The stories behind that trust are the kind every restaurant owner recognizes. One Friday at 6:30 in the evening, a Chick-fil-A called in with a dead walk-in and a drive-through line already wrapped around the building. We prepped a trailer, dispatched it, and had it on their pad pulling temperature 34 minutes after the phone rang. The manager's first words when the driver pulled in were, "I cannot believe you are already here." That is the bar we hold ourselves to. Another year, an overnight outage shorted a cooler on the morning of a holiday rush, and our team staged three freezer trailers to hold every pie, every protein, and every prep tray so the kitchen served the rush without missing a ticket. The reason we hear some version of that line so often is the same every time: the equipment was already nearby, already cold, and owned by the people who answered the phone. That same standard travels to every Burbank job, from a one-cook taqueria to a distribution floor.
Three decades deep in the equipment-rental business, running the West Coast's biggest dual-purpose fleet of freezer and refrigeration trailers. Every unit ours, never a broker's.
Five stars from the Burbank food service operations we deliver to
"Our walk-in quit on a Saturday in August and I could already see the weekend going in the trash. KryoFridge had a trailer in the alley behind us faster than I thought was possible. They asked about our panel before they left the yard and brought a generator, which turned out to be exactly right. We never closed a single hour."
Mark W. · restaurant owner, Magnolia Park"We build our peak Saturdays around one of their trailers now. Cooler on Friday, freezer on Sunday, same unit. They know the loading situations at the venues we work, which saves me a phone call every single time. Always on time and always cold."
Laura S. · catering director, Media District"Three weeks at a base camp off Olive and the unit never gave us a moment of trouble. They also flagged the right of way permit timing before we booked, which nobody else had mentioned. That is the kind of thing you remember when you are hiring for the next show."
Raquel E. · location manager, film productionHard facts
Our most-booked walk-in freezer rental, up close
Our signature freezer trailer dials anywhere from 10 below zero up to 50 degrees on a single unit, so a Burbank caterer can run it as a cooler on Friday and a freezer on Saturday without swapping equipment. That matters in a city where one crew might cover a studio lunch, a hillside reception and a Magnolia Boulevard street fair in the same week.
16' insulated boxRear double doors + side utility third door-10°F to +50°F range120V/20A or generatorTandem axle
When the stakes are real, the 16' Utility is what we send. Sixteen feet of insulated, NSF-approved box on a tandem axle, running one precise digital set-point that covers deep freeze at -10°F all the way up to a 50°F cooler. The rear double doors handle pallet work off a dock, and the side utility door means a cook can pull one tray without letting the heat in.
The trailer that shows up is one of ours, prepped in our own shop, fueled and pre-cooled before it leaves the yard. It takes a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit or the generator we provide, and it will hold that set-point through a triple-digit stretch without drama.
| Spec | What you get |
|---|---|
| Temperature range | Roughly -10°F deep-freeze up to about 50°F fresh-cold |
| Mode | Dual-purpose: freezer or refrigerator on one precise digital set-point |
| Power | A dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit within about 100 feet, or a generator we supply |
| Food safety | NSF-approved for direct food contact, food-safe surfaces, proper drainage |
| Footprints | 6x8, 6x12, and 6x16, from a tight retail lot to distribution scale |
| Backing | Owned in-house, fully licensed and insured, with 24/7 emergency dispatch |
Each unit holds a precise digital set-point and runs on a dedicated 120V/20A circuit or a generator. The trailers are not wired for 208 to 240V building service, so we confirm your hookup before the truck rolls.
Freezer and Refrigerated Trailer Rentals Across Burbank and the East Valley
We cover Burbank and the eastern San Fernando Valley with same-day and 24-hour dispatch. The 5, the 134 and the 170 all touch this city, which makes it one of the fastest markets we serve. Here is the ground we cover from here. The same trucks run ice box and freezer trailer rentals in Palmdale, portable freezer trailer rental in Downey and Norwalk freezer trailer rentals.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover include Downtown Burbank, Burbank Village, Magnolia Park, Media District, Rancho Equestrian District, Burbank Hills, Country Club, Starlight Hills, Empire Center, Golden State corridor, Hollywood Way, Chandler Bikeway corridor, Toluca Lake, Universal City, North Hollywood, NoHo Arts District, Valley Village, Studio City, Sun Valley, Shadow Hills, Glendale, Montrose, La Crescenta, Pasadena.
Our delivery territory for refrigerated trailers
Each community around Burbank has its own venues, its own events, and its own cold storage headaches. We work all of them.
One call sizes the trailer, sets the delivery window, and locks your quote for Burbank. Call now, or send the quick quote request and we will call you.
Other Jobs Our Burbank Cold Storage Trailers Cover
More than 164,000 people work in Burbank against a resident population of about 107,000, and all of them eat. That gap creates three very different kinds of cold storage demand, and we handle all three every week.
🍽 Hospital and clinic food service
Providence Saint Joseph runs 446 beds and a kitchen that never stops. Renovations and refrigeration replacements need cold storage that can sit on site for weeks without blocking the dock or the ambulance lane.
🛒 School district kitchens
Burbank Unified runs 11 elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools out of central and satellite kitchens. Summer freezer work and summer meal programs both create a window where the district needs capacity it does not own.
📦 Supermarket remodels and case failures
A refrigerated aisle rebuild is a scheduled job measured in weeks, and a rack failure is the same job with no warning. Either way a trailer at the dock lets the store keep selling instead of drawing inventory down for a month beforehand.
🎪 Warehouse and air freight overflow
Hollywood Burbank Airport moved roughly 41.6 million pounds of UPS freight and 29.8 million pounds of FedEx freight in 2024. When a flight slips, temperature sensitive product needs somewhere to sit, and the Hollywood Way warehouse district has the access to stage it.
🚨 Equestrian and outdoor show grounds
Multi-day shows at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center bring vendors and caterers who have no kitchen on the grounds. We drop before load-in and pull after the last day so nobody works around a truck mid show.
🏭 Holiday and awards season overflow
Thanksgiving through New Year, Mother's Day and awards season compress an enormous amount of food service into a handful of dates. Book the trailer with the venue and the problem disappears before it starts.
What ties these together is the clock. Nobody budgets a freezer trailer into next quarter. They reach for one the hour a compressor quits, or the evening before a party when the stack of rented ice chests suddenly looks laughably undersized. Since our units sit staged around Burbank instead of a couple counties down the freeway, "can I get it today" is an ordinary ask here, not a stretch.
What a failed cooler costs caterers in Burbank
How fast we move
Add it up the way an owner in Burbank has to. One restaurant walk-in routinely sits on a small fortune in proteins, dairy, and prepped product. Scale that to a grocery rack or a warehouse freezer bay and the exposure balloons. Now knock the power or the compressor out on a triple-digit afternoon, and that whole inventory is in jeopardy inside a few hours. Then stack on the sales you lose while the line sits dark and the wages you burn paying staff to triage what can still be saved.
Hold a pre-staged trailer up against that risk and it reads like cheap insurance, a fixed, predictable expense parked in front of a loss with no ceiling. That is exactly why the businesses that got stung once tape our number by the phone. There is never a second scramble, because the next time they dial before the product has a chance to warm. Owning every trailer ourselves means we can scale the answer to fit. A single compact box suits a corner cafe. A clustered setup covers a warehouse floor. Either turns around the same day.
Five Straight Months of Heat on the Valley Floor
Burbank sits on the eastern floor of the San Fernando Valley at about 607 feet, with the Verdugo Mountains at its back. That inland position gives it a long, completely dry summer. Average highs run 80 degrees in June, 87 in July, 89 in August, 87 in September and 79 in October, and the whole year brings only about 14 inches of rain across roughly 3,440 hours of sunshine.
The extremes are worse than the averages suggest. The record high is 113 degrees, reached in July 2018 and again in September 2020. Both of those were Santa Ana events, when dry desert air pushes over the mountains and drops onto the Valley floor. Those winds cluster in September, October and November, which is the same stretch when the fall event and holiday catering calendar is at its heaviest. Peak heat risk and peak food volume arrive together here.
For anybody holding perishable stock, ambient heat is simply load. A walk-in that holds fine in March is working at the edge of its capacity on an 89 degree August afternoon in an unshaded alley, and the compressor that was already marginal picks the hottest day of the year to quit. A rented trailer sized to the inventory and running on its own generator does not care what the grid or the building is doing. In this market that independence is the whole point.
Mobile Cold Storage for Burbank Film and Television Production
Burbank has the densest concentration of production infrastructure anywhere. Warner Bros. Studios on Warner Boulevard covers about 110 acres with 31 sound stages and 11 exterior sets. The Walt Disney Studios on South Buena Vista Street has been the company headquarters since 1940. Add The Burbank Studios on West Alameda, Nickelodeon Animation on West Olive and Cartoon Network Studios nearby, and every one of those lots feeds crews all day, as does every location shoot in between.
Base camp is where we do most of this work. A location shoot parks its trucks, honeywagons and catering rig several blocks from the actual set, and catering feeds two hot meals plus rolling craft service to a crew that often runs 75 to 200 people. The catering truck's own cold box was sized for one meal service, not for a hold that lasts weeks. Park a refrigerated trailer at base camp and the catering department suddenly has the walk-in it never had.
Long schedules are the other half. A series shooting for months on a Burbank stage needs the same cold storage every single day of the run, and a unit that quits in week six costs a production a shooting day. That is why studio work goes to companies that own their fleet and maintain it. Burbank productions also move between stages here and locations across the basin, and we back this market up with Los Angeles freezer trailer rentals out of the same fleet, so a schedule that jumps the hill does not mean a change of vendors.
One local detail separates people who have actually done this from people who have not. The City of Burbank issues its own film permits through its Film Permit Office rather than routing them the way the rest of the county does, and the published turnaround is one to three days for a standard permit but three to five business days once the permit touches the public right of way. A trailer on a Burbank street is a right of way use. On a studio lot or a leased private lot it is not. We will tell you which clock you are on before you book, and we will hold the date while you sort the paperwork.
Portable Cold Storage Rentals for Burbank Caterers and Venues
A caterer's kitchen is sized for an average week, never for the peak Saturday. When three jobs land on one day the bottleneck is almost never the ovens and almost never the staff. It is cold holding. A refrigerated trailer staged at the venue on Thursday, loaded Friday and worked out of on Saturday turns a job a caterer would otherwise have to turn down into a job they can take at full margin.
Caterers here work a calendar most cities do not have. Castaway sits up on East Harvard Road with the whole Valley below it and books weddings year round. Pickwick Gardens Conference Center on West Riverside Drive runs banquets beside its ice rink and bowling center. The Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Riverside Drive fills the Equidome and its grounds with multi-day horse shows and the out of town exhibitors who follow them. Studio lots run their own hospitality. Add awards season and the corporate calendar and the peak weekends stack up fast.
Then there is the street. Celebrate Burbank brings a parade and a six hour street fair to Magnolia Park on Saturday, May 16, 2026, the first Burbank parade since before the pandemic, with food trucks the length of the boulevard. Holiday in the Park takes over downtown in November. The farmers market runs every Saturday from 8:30 to noon. Starlight Bowl puts concessions on a hillside all summer for its 2026 Back Under the Stars season. None of those sites has a kitchen anywhere near it.
Caterers who work with us learn our refrigerated trailer lineup quickly, because the same unit that holds plated desserts at 38 degrees on Friday will hold frozen product at 10 below on Sunday. That saves a second rental and a second delivery. The other thing they learn is that we plan access before we roll. Castaway is a hillside road with a tight turnaround, Pickwick shares a lot with two other operations, and the Equestrian Center has horses moving through it. Send us a photo of the drop and we will tell you exactly what fits.
Emergency Freezer Trailer Rentals When a Burbank Walk-In Quits
The walk-in cooler is the heart of back of house. Proteins, produce, dairy, dressings, prepped mise en place, everything the line touches lives in there. When it dies the kitchen stops, and the clock on the inventory starts running immediately. In Burbank the risk sits heaviest in the older buildings, and roughly 62 percent of this city was built before 1970. Magnolia Park's independents and the pre-1970 storefronts along Olive Avenue and Burbank Boulevard are running back of house on panels and refrigeration lines of the same vintage.
Heat is the trigger. Burbank averages 87 degrees in July, 89 in August and 87 again in September, and the record stands at 113 degrees, hit in July 2018 and again during a September 2020 Santa Ana event. A condenser that limps along in March is at its limit on an August afternoon in an alley with no shade. That is exactly when we get the call, and it is why our dispatch line is staffed around the clock.
Restaurants are not the only ones. Supermarkets pull us in for refrigerated case and rack work, where the dollar exposure dwarfs any single kitchen. Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center on South Buena Vista Street runs a 446 bed hospital kitchen that cannot pause patient meals for a renovation. Burbank Unified feeds students out of central and satellite kitchens with no spare freezer capacity.
What we bring is not complicated, it is just reliable. One unit, dialed anywhere from 10 below to 50 above, delivered and set. We settle the power question on the phone instead of discovering it in your alley: either a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within 100 feet of the trailer, or we bring a generator. In an older Burbank building that free dedicated line often does not exist, and knowing that before we dispatch is the difference between a unit that holds all weekend and a breaker that trips at two in the morning.
Trailer holding temperatures for Burbank markets
"Cold" is not one number. Different product stays safe inside different temperature windows, which is the entire reason a precise digital set-point matters, and in the middle of a heat wave in Burbank, a load that slips out of its window is a load you write off. Use the chart below as the reference our customers lean on when they size a rental.
| Product | Target holding band | Trailer mode |
|---|---|---|
| Ice cream and frozen desserts | -10°F to 0°F | Deep freeze |
| Frozen proteins, seafood, prepared meals | 0°F or below | Freezer |
| Fresh meat and poultry (short hold) | 28°F to 32°F | Refrigerated |
| Dairy, deli, packaged produce | 34°F to 38°F | Refrigerated |
| Beverages, florals, catering trays | 38°F to 45°F | Refrigerated |
One figure outranks everything in that chart, and it is not listed there: 40°F. Food-safety guidance treats the band between 40°F and 140°F as the zone where bacteria thrive, and the clock on perishable product starts ticking the moment it crosses 40 on the way up. Roughly four cumulative hours above that line and most refrigerated inventory is no longer safe to serve. Picture that countdown running on a 100-degree afternoon in Burbank with the walk-in dark, and the urgency of a quick trailer drop stops being abstract.
Tell us the single coldest item you are holding when you call, and we dial the trailer to that. One unit carries a straight freezer load with no fuss. But when your list mixes deep-freeze desserts with fresh-cold produce for the same remodel or event, we will usually point you toward a split setup or a second box so neither side of the load has to settle for the wrong temperature.
Siting a refrigeration trailer on a working Burbank property
Powering one of our trailers is refreshingly simple, and there are precisely two ways to do it. Either you have a dedicated 120-volt, 20-amp circuit reachable within roughly 100 feet of the parking spot, or we bring a generator. What the units will not accept is standard 208 to 240V building service, so a quick question about your outlet before dispatch heads off any surprise on delivery day.
- Dedicated outlet on hand? Most Burbank kitchens and markets already have the right one, so we plug straight in and the unit begins pulling the temperature down.
- Open lot or event field? A generator keeps the trailer running anywhere, whether that is an event lawn or a warehouse yard.
- Worried about a shutoff? A unit on a generator keeps your cold chain alive when a fire-season power shutoff takes the surrounding grid down.
On placement, all the unit really asks for is a fairly flat patch with enough room for the delivery truck to maneuver it in and set it straight, plus either a power source in reach or space for a generator. We lock down the exact drop point before dispatch, and our drivers know the Burbank layout cold, so the delivery is one clean trip instead of a guessing game on the property.
Where our portable refrigeration earned its keep near Burbank
Season by season
Chick-fil-A, walk-in down in the middle of the Friday dinner rush
The phone rang at 6:30 on a Friday evening. Walk-in cooler dead, drive-through backed up around the block, dinner rush in full swing. We took the call, prepped a trailer and dispatched immediately, and the unit was on site within 34 minutes of that first ring. The crew moved their cold inventory straight across and never stopped serving.
Denny's, an overnight outage on Mother's Day morning
An overnight power outage shorted the fuse on their walk-in cooler, and Mother's Day is one of the busiest days on their entire calendar. Losing cold storage that morning would have been a disaster. Our dispatch team put three freezer trailers on site to hold the pies, the meats and everything prepped for the day. The restaurant worked the full rush at full volume and lost nothing.
A Burbank production, three weeks of base camp on a long shoot
A series shooting a long block needed cold storage at a base camp several blocks off set, feeding a crew well past a hundred people twice a day. The catering rig's own box could cover one meal, not three weeks. We placed a trailer on the private lot they had leased and left it there for the run. Zero days lost to equipment, and the same unit came back for the next block.
We already know how Burbank powers and permits a trailer. Most vendors assume your building can spare a circuit. In Magnolia Park and along Olive Avenue it very often cannot, because a pre-1970 panel has no free dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp line within 100 feet of where the trailer has to sit. So we settle power on the phone: that dedicated circuit, or we bring a generator. Then we settle paperwork. The City of Burbank runs its own film permit office instead of the county process, and a trailer on a public street is a right of way use on a three to five business day clock instead of the one to three day clock. Knowing both before dispatch is why our units land where they belong the first time.
Booking a freezer trailer: what happens after you call
On a bad day, booking should be the part that does not add stress. Four steps, an upfront number, and a single person who owns the whole thing.
Step one: Say what needs to stay cold
Tell us whether it is freezer or fridge product, a ballpark volume, and your rough window. That is enough for us to call the right size.
Step two: We confirm the footprint and the hookup
We pair you with a unit, confirm whether you have a dedicated circuit or need a generator, and pin the exact drop point so the truck makes one trip.
3. Delivery and cold-down
We arrive on your schedule, about 45 minutes for a true emergency, set the trailer, energize it, and let it drive down to your number.
Step 4 · Run it, reach us anytime
It holds the set-point for your entire term while our line stays live the whole way through. Wrap up, and we swing back for the pickup.
Permits, Food Code and Heat Rules That Shape a Burbank Rental
Burbank rules worth knowing
Start with permits, because Burbank is different from its neighbors. A film permit is required for all filming inside the city, and the City of Burbank issues those permits through its own Film Permit Office, run out of the Police Department together with the Fire Department, Parks and Recreation and Public Works. Applications go in online, the office is open Monday through Friday, and the published turnaround is one to three days for a standard permit and three to five business days when the permit involves the public right of way. Parking a refrigerated trailer on a Burbank street for a shoot is a right of way use, which puts you on the longer clock. On a studio lot or a leased private lot it does not apply. We build that into the booking conversation so nobody finds out on a Wednesday.
Then the food code. California's Retail Food Code requires potentially hazardous food to be held cold at 41 degrees or below, continuously, and frozen food to be kept frozen. Refrigeration equipment has to be sufficient in number and capacity to actually hold those temperatures. In Burbank the inspections and the familiar A, B and C grade cards come from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Division. That obligation does not pause when a compressor dies, which is precisely why a trailer on site is the compliant answer instead of a dumpster full of product.
Heat rules matter too, and they are already in force. Cal/OSHA's outdoor standard requires shade whenever the temperature is above 80 degrees and triggers high-heat procedures at 95 degrees. The indoor standard took effect July 23, 2024 and applies once indoor temperatures reach 82 degrees, with measurement required at 87 and cool-down areas kept below 82. Burbank averages 80 degrees or better from June through October, so those triggers describe a normal summer here. Federal OSHA has gone further and published a proposed heat injury and illness prevention rule for both outdoor and indoor work settings, with an initial trigger near 80 degrees and a high-heat trigger near 90. Crews that already plan for cold water, cold storage and shade will be ready when it lands.
What our mobile cold storage units bring to a health-code inspection
- NSF-approved interior surfaces built for direct food contact.
- A digital controller that puts the set-point in plain view for the inspector.
- Proper drainage and a sealed, food-safe insulated box.
- Licensed and insured on every unit we put on the road.
One caveat we always state plainly: we supply the food-safe, temperature-holding hardware itself, but we are not a temperature-logging or alarm-monitoring service. If your program requires continuous written records, line that vendor up on your own.
Three sizes of cold storage trailer, and who books each one
Our signature 16 foot Utility series leads the fleet. It is the trailer we send on most jobs, and crews like it for the side utility access door. We build three footprints in all, so a single kitchen holding overflow stock has a fit and so does a distribution floor in a disaster. Every unit is dual purpose by design: one adjustable system swings between freezer and refrigerator on a digital set point. Each trailer runs on a dedicated circuit or on a generator.
| Trailer | Best for | Temp range |
|---|---|---|
| 6x16 Utility ⭐ | Our signature series: distribution, large events, disaster response, side utility door | Heavy-duty reefer |
| 6x12 | Grocers, caterers, mid-size events | Deep-freeze capable |
| 6x8 | Tight lots, small kitchens, short overflow | -10°F to 50°F |
Each unit holds a precise digital set-point and runs on a dedicated 120V/20A circuit or a generator.
6x8, the tight-space option
Think eight or so pallet spots, and the unit to grab when square footage is the whole problem. It slips into the pinched service yards and cramped back-of-house corners that a larger box cannot even swing into. One cafe or small-market walk-in goes down, and this is almost always enough cold to cover it, plus the simplest unit to set in a small space.
The everyday 6x12, the workhorse for restaurants and markets
Call it fourteen pallet spots, deep-freeze rated, and far and away the size people ask for most. It lands right in the middle: roomy enough for a multi-day catering job or a restaurant that needs true walk-in-equivalent room while the kitchen is torn up. Roomy enough that nobody is playing Tetris with shelves, yet still small enough to set in most commercial back lots without a site survey.
The full-size 6x16, the large box for resets and recalls
Roughly twenty pallet spots paired with a heavy-duty reefer plant engineered to keep deep-freeze locked in even when the ambient air is merciless. Reach for it when a warehouse bay drops, when a large festival needs an anchor, or when a relief operation is carrying its own cold chain.
Not sure which size fits? Most customers land on the 16 foot Utility, and we will tell you honestly if a smaller footprint covers your job. Tell us roughly what you are storing and for how long, and we will spec it for you.
More refrigeration trailer questions from Burbank restaurants
The questions that surface once the basics are settled. Tap any topic to open it.
Freezer trailer, portable walk-in or reefer truck for a Burbank kitchen?
The pop-up walk-in cooler. Cheap to rent and easy to set up, but it chills, it does not freeze, and it draws every watt it needs from your building while depending on a calm ambient temperature around it. The second your building loses power, your cooler loses it too.
The refrigerated box truck. Designed to haul product on the interstate, not to sit in a lot and babysit it. Parked, it idles fuel all day, broadcasts compressor noise across a storefront or an event lawn, and pins down a tractor plus a driver you probably do not need.
The freezer trailer we deliver. Built from the ground up to be dropped on a pad and to defend a temperature for as long as the job runs. It freezes deep, carries NSF approval, locks, stays quiet near guests, and lives on nothing more than one dedicated circuit or a generator.
NSF build quality and what it means for a food-safety check
Even a rented box has to satisfy the county environmental health office that licenses and inspects every food facility. Show an inspector a unit that cannot document its temperature or was not built for food contact, and they have the authority to halt service immediately.
That is a bar each of our trailers clears: NSF-approved throughout, food-safe interior surfaces, proper drainage, and a digital controller that puts the set-point in plain view. We supply the food-safe, temperature-holding hardware itself, but we are not a temperature-logging or alarm-monitoring service.
Clustering cold storage trailers for a warehouse
For a typical kitchen or market, one box does the job. Distribution floors, big fairs, and full-scale disaster response routinely need more, and because the fleet is ours, we can cluster several units and bring them online in waves as the work expands. Match the cold capacity to the operation rather than make the operation squeeze itself into one box.
Same-day emergencies and longer terms for a busy quarter
The clock is yours to set. Some jobs are a handful of days for an emergency or a single event. Others stretch across weeks or months for a remodel or a seasonal swell, and a few become standing contracts for businesses that want capacity parked on standby. Name your window and you will get a clean quote, no penalty for an honest "not sure yet."
The rent-or-build question for a temporary need
Building permanent cold storage is a capital project in every sense: you hire a refrigeration contractor, schedule the electrical, pull a building permit, and wait weeks before a single pallet goes inside. A rental turns that equation on its head. You bring in precisely the cold you need, for precisely the stretch you need it, and the trailer is holding temperature that same week, frequently that same day, with the commitment ending the moment your need is over.
Why the set point stays put in a hot loading dock
Three engineered elements carry the load. Thick insulated panels and tightly gasketed doors lock the sun outside and the cold inside. A self-contained reefer condensing system specified with surplus capacity keeps stripping heat out of the box even when the air outside is brutal. And a digital thermostat locks onto your chosen number and cycles the compressor to hold the line. Run those three together and a trailer baking on open asphalt behaves like one tucked in a cool warehouse. That is also why power is the first thing we ask about: the design delivers its safety margin only on steady, uninterrupted power.
The rest of the Burbank review file
"We rebuilt our refrigerated cases over three weeks and never pulled a case off the floor. They set the trailer at the dock where it did not block deliveries. Straight answers on the phone, no runaround, and they own the equipment they send."
Celia A. · grocery manager, Empire Center area"Getting a trailer up our hill is not a simple job and they treated it like a real problem instead of pretending it was easy. Sent a driver who walked the approach with me first. The unit held everything for a 300 guest reception without a hiccup."
Ashley G. · banquet manager, Burbank Hills"September heat took out our compressor and I called them at nine at night expecting voicemail. Got a person. Trailer showed up, we loaded it, and we were baking the next morning like nothing happened. I keep the number in my phone now."
JOSE M. · bakery owner, Magnolia Boulevard"Street closures downtown make deliveries a headache and they worked our load-in window without a single complaint. Everything stayed at temperature through a long hot afternoon. They understood the event calendar here better than our last vendor did."
Zachary H. · event coordinator, Downtown Burbank"We needed cold storage for a kitchen remodel and they sized it correctly the first time, which meant one trailer instead of two. Delivered on the day they said, picked up on the day they said. That is honestly all I want from a vendor."
Desirea G. · commissary supervisor, Burbank"We feed exhibitors during show weekends at the Equestrian Center and there is no kitchen out there. Their trailer became our kitchen. They dropped before load-in and pulled after the last day so we were never working around a truck."
Janette Y. · caterer, Rancho Equestrian District"A shipment sat longer than it should have and we needed cold space with almost no notice. They had a unit at our dock the same afternoon and it held everything until the freight moved. Owner run outfit, and it shows in how they answer the phone."
Shelby H. · operations manager, Golden State corridorSample reviews written to mirror genuine Burbank situations, to be replaced with verified Google reviews ahead of launch.
What Burbank restaurants ask before a refrigerated trailer rental
How fast can you get a freezer trailer to a Burbank restaurant in an emergency?
Our dispatch runs 24 hours a day, and emergency swaps are the single thing we do most. On our fastest documented save we had a unit on site within 34 minutes of the phone ringing. Geography helps, because the 5, the 134 and the 170 all touch the city. Call the line, tell us the address and the power situation, and we will give you a real arrival window instead of a guess.
How do you power a refrigerated trailer at a Burbank location?
There are exactly two ways. Either you provide a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within 100 feet of where the trailer sits, or we bring a generator. There is no third option, and we settle it on the phone rather than in your alley. In Magnolia Park and the older buildings along Olive Avenue a free dedicated line frequently does not exist, so a generator is often the right call. Roughly 62 percent of Burbank was built before 1970, and the panels reflect that.
What temperature range can the trailer hold?
One unit dials from about 10 degrees below zero up to 50 degrees above, which means the same trailer works as a cooler or a freezer depending on what you set it to. A caterer can run it at 38 degrees for plated desserts on Friday and drop it below zero for frozen product on Sunday. That saves renting two pieces of equipment. Tell us what you are holding and we will set it before we leave.
Do I need a permit to park a trailer on a Burbank street?
For filming, yes, and Burbank is different from its neighbors here. The City of Burbank issues its own film permits through the City of Burbank Film Permit Office rather than routing them the way the rest of the county does. Published turnaround is one to three days for a standard permit and three to five business days when the permit touches the public right of way, which a trailer on a street does. On a studio lot or a leased private lot that clock does not apply. We will tell you which situation you are in before you book.
Can you handle a film production base camp for several weeks?
Yes, and long production schedules are some of our favorite work. A catering rig's own cold box was sized for one meal service, not for feeding 75 to 200 people twice a day for a month. We place a unit at base camp, set it for the catering lead, and leave it for the run. Because we own our fleet and maintain it ourselves, week six looks exactly like week one.
Do you offer temperature monitoring during the rental?
No. We do not offer a monitoring, logging or alarm service, and we will not tell you otherwise. What the unit does have is digital setpoint control, so the temperature you ask for is the temperature it runs. If your own protocol requires documented records, plan to handle that on your side.
Which Burbank neighborhoods do you deliver to?
All of them. Downtown Burbank, Magnolia Park, the Media District, Rancho Equestrian, Empire Center and the Golden State corridor, plus the hillside streets toward Castaway and the Starlight Bowl. From the same yard we cover Glendale, North Hollywood, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Sun Valley and Pasadena. We serve customers in all 50 states, but this corner of the Valley is home ground.
How far ahead should a Burbank caterer or venue book?
As far ahead as you can for anything on the calendar, and immediately for anything that just broke. Fall is the crunch. Santa Ana heat events cluster in September, October and November, which is the same stretch when the event and holiday catering calendar peaks, so demand and risk arrive at the same time. Booking early is how you hold a date rather than hope for one.
Do you own the trailers you deliver?
We own them. KryoFridge is a direct, owner operated company from a family that has been in the event and equipment rental business for more than 30 years, and we run one of the largest refrigerated and freezer fleets in the West. When you call you are talking to the people who dispatch the unit and maintain it, not to a middleman who still has to go find one. We are licensed, insured and NSF ready. There is more detail in our freezer trailer rental FAQ, and you are always welcome to just call and ask.
Burbank Cold Storage Guides From Our Team
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What Burbank Restaurants Should Do in the First Hour After a Walk-In Fails
A walk-in cooler failure is not a maintenance problem, it is a countdown. Everything the line touches lives in that box: proteins, produce, dairy, dressings, prepped mise en place. The moment it stops holding, two clocks start. One is the food itself. The other is California's Retail Food Code, which requires potentially hazardous food to be held at 41 degrees or below, continuously, and frozen food to be kept frozen. That requirement does not pause because your compressor did.
The first thing to do is stop opening the door. A closed walk-in with a dead compressor holds temperature far longer than one somebody is checking every five minutes. Use that time to do two things at once: get a refrigeration tech moving, and get cold storage moving. Waiting to see whether the tech can fix it before you call for a trailer is the most common and most expensive mistake in this whole sequence, because it burns the window when your product was still saveable.
California Department of Public Health, Retail Food Safety Program
Cold Storage at a Burbank Base Camp: What Productions Get Wrong
Burbank holds more production infrastructure per square mile than almost anywhere on earth. Warner Bros. Studios runs about 110 acres with 31 sound stages and 11 exterior sets. The Walt Disney Studios has been the company's headquarters on South Buena Vista Street since 1940. The Burbank Studios sits on West Alameda, Nickelodeon Animation on West Olive, Cartoon Network Studios a short drive away. Around all of it are stages, post houses and rental shops in the industrial blocks toward the airport.
Every one of those operations feeds people, and the volume is the part outsiders underestimate. A location shoot's catering department serves two hot meals a day plus continuous craft service to a crew that commonly runs 75 to 200 people. The catering rig has a cold box, but that box was sized to carry one meal service from the commissary to the location. It was never designed to be a walk-in for a multi-week schedule.
Heat, Santa Ana Winds and Why Refrigeration Fails in the San Fernando Valley
Burbank sits on the eastern floor of the San Fernando Valley at about 607 feet, seven miles from downtown Los Angeles, with the Verdugo Mountains behind it. That inland position produces a long, entirely dry summer. Average high temperatures run 80 degrees in June, 87 in July, 89 in August, 87 in September and 79 in October. June through August is effectively rainless, and the entire year brings only about 14 inches of rain across roughly 3,440 hours of sunshine.
The averages understate the problem. The record high is 113 degrees, reached in July 2018 and again in September 2020. Both were Santa Ana events, the pattern where dry air from the desert pushes over the mountains, compresses on the way down and lands on the Valley floor as heat. Those winds cluster in September, October and November, which is exactly when the fall event calendar and holiday catering volume peak. In this market, the hottest risk and the heaviest food volume arrive in the same weeks.
Questions Burbank Caterers Should Ask Before Renting a Refrigerated Trailer
Off-premise catering is the cleanest case for a rented refrigerated trailer that exists. A catering kitchen is built for an average week. The peak Saturday is not an average week. When three jobs land on one day, the constraint is almost never the ovens and almost never the staff, it is cold holding, and cold holding is the one thing you cannot improvise at scale. Getting the rental right turns a job you would have declined into a job you can take.
The first question is about power, and it should be asked before anything else. A refrigerated trailer runs on either a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within 100 feet of the unit, or on a generator supplied by the rental company. Those are the only two options, and a vendor who is vague about it is a vendor who has not thought about your site. Venues rarely have a spare dedicated circuit sitting near the parking area, so for most catering placements the honest answer is a generator.
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