KryoFridge rents walk-in freezer trailers and portable refrigerated trailers across Cedar City and the surrounding Iron County towns. We deliver the same day when a cooler goes down at a Main Street kitchen or a grocery dock. Call us and tell us what needs to stay cold. Or request a free quote online and we will size the right box for your kitchen or your event. Every trailer we send out arrives already cold, not starting from room temperature in your parking lot.
KryoFridge is the refrigeration side of a family rental business that has been at this more than 30 years, and every trailer we send out is ours, not a reseller's box with our sticker on it. When the grid drops on a Cedar Valley kitchen or a recall doubles what a grocery department has to hold overnight, cold storage on wheels is the difference between a bad afternoon and a real loss. We own the fleet and service it ourselves. The person answering the phone is not routed through somebody else's dispatch board. Call now and tell us what you need to hold. Or request a free quote online and we will get a trailer sized and scheduled for your Cedar City site.
We keep cold, fueled units parked for this market instead of sourcing one after your phone call. A dispatcher who has to go find a trailer first cannot get you through a dinner rush. Ours are already sitting ready.
You are not routed through a broker marking up somebody else's equipment. We own the fleet and maintain it ourselves. Our driver works for us, so when something changes about your rental, you hear it straight from the people who can actually change it.
Every unit swings from deep freeze to fresh cold on a single digital set point. A caterer holding ice cream for the Shakespeare Festival this weekend and produce for a Summer Games tent next weekend does not need two rentals. Tell us the coldest thing on your list and we dial it in before the trailer leaves our yard.
Cedar City's own climate record runs from 105 degrees to 26 below zero. A box that only holds its number in mild weather is not much use here. We spec and place our units for both ends of that swing, the hard one included.
The Southwest Utah Public Health Department's Iron County office can send someone to a temporary booth without warning. Our boxes are food safe and sealed, with real drainage built in. The set point sits right on a digital readout an inspector can read in seconds.
Downtown Cedar City is a short drive. Brian Head and Cedar Breaks are not, and neither is a fairgrounds booth out in Parowan. Every unit is self-contained, so a remote drop only needs a flat spot and power. We route those trips on purpose instead of guessing at the drive time.
The names below have all run our trailers on real jobs. When a brand this size hands you their frozen inventory, they have already checked everything worth checking.
McDonald'sOverflow frozen holding behind high-volume locations during remodels and equipment swaps, so the menu never shortens.
national account
Burger KingFrozen stock held at spec through a compressor replacement so the location never dropped a menu item.
same-day swap
Chick-fil-ATrailer cold storage through store remodels so frozen prep stock stayed at temperature from teardown to reopening.
zero thaw loss
Panda ExpressTrailer cold storage during equipment service so frozen prep stock stayed within reach of the wok line.
bulk overflow
Dutch BrosOverflow cold storage for dairy and blend stock behind high-volume drive-thru stands.
multi-site account
MaverikBackup freezer capacity behind adventure-stop locations during cooler resets, keeping frozen and cold cases full.
travel-stop account"Our walk-in quit two days before a big weekend and I figured we were done for. They had a trailer on our lot the same afternoon and we never missed a ticket."
"We ran two units side by side during a rack swap, one on freeze and one on fridge. Both held their number the whole week and the driver knew exactly where to place them."
"There was no building anywhere near us, generator power only. They still had a box running cold before opening night. That is not a small thing for an outdoor plaza."
Most Cedar City jobs land on a mid-size box that fits a Main Street kitchen or a grocery receiving lane without eating the whole lot. Bigger festival and distribution jobs get the largest footprint, or a pair of units set at different temperatures.
The 16' Utility is the trailer our crews reach for when the job is serious. A 16-foot insulated box on a tandem axle holds anything from -10°F deep-freeze to 50°F fresh-cold on one precise digital set-point, with NSF-approved surfaces throughout. Rear double doors take pallet loads straight off a dock, and the side utility door lets a cook grab one tray without opening the whole box to the heat.
We own every one of these units, so the trailer that shows up is fueled, pre-cooled, and maintained in-house. It runs on a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit or a generator we supply, and it holds its number through triple-digit afternoons. When a walk-in dies or a harvest runs long, this is the box that carries the load.
| 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.
We deliver freezer and refrigerated trailer rentals throughout Cedar City and Iron County, covering the university district, Main Street, Cross Hollow, and the mountain corridor up toward Brian Head. Our coverage is part of a wider freezer trailer rental coverage across the state that reaches Saint George and the rest of southern Utah. Planned rentals are usually scheduled the same week. Emergencies move to the front of the line.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover include Downtown Cedar City, Main Street, SUU Campus, University Boulevard, Cross Hollow, Fiddlers Canyon, Iron Springs Road, Quichapa, Cedar Canyon, Right Hand Canyon, Cedar Highlands, Enoch, Kanarraville, Paragonah, Parowan, Summit, Rush Lake, Brian Head, Cedar Breaks, Duck Creek Village, Beaver, Panguitch.
From the busiest commercial corridors to the quietest side streets, these are the Cedar City area communities we serve every week.
The historic core built up around the old ironworks and the Shakespeare Festival grounds. Tight lot access and the oldest, smallest kitchens in the city mean a delivery here gets scouted before we roll a truck down.
Eccles Coliseum, the America First Event Center, and Thunderbird Park Complex sit inside a dense student housing and restaurant strip. Game days and commencement week both spike demand well past an ordinary Tuesday.
Newer commercial and light industrial ground west of the interstate, home to Cedar City's manufacturing and distribution base. Loading docks and open lots make this an easy drop for a larger trailer.
Residential growth climbing the bench toward Cedar Canyon and the route up to Brian Head. Restaurants and small kitchens here sit a longer drive from a repair tech than the map suggests.
A fast growing city just up the road with a real flood history of its own. Newer commercial buildings here often need cold storage during buildout rather than after a failure.
The county seat nineteen miles north, and the site of the Labor Day fair. Runs out here take longer than a downtown call, so we build the extra drive time into the window.
One call sizes the trailer, sets the delivery window, and locks your quote for Cedar City. Call now, or send the quick quote request and we will call you.
Three things drive most of the calls we take in Iron County. A festival or event outgrows the cold space on site. A florist or grower needs to protect stock against a short growing season. A harvest or ranch operation needs volume cold storage for a few compressed weeks. Here is how each one actually plays out here.

Still the single most common emergency call we take in Cedar City. We move a full back of house load into a trailer so the kitchen keeps serving while the repair gets scheduled properly instead of in a panic.

SUU's 8,500 seat stadium, the America First Event Center, and commencement weekend all put thousands of extra people on campus dining and catering at once. A temporary box covers the days a normal Tuesday setup was never built to handle.

A store swapping equipment or building out a new department needs somewhere to hold product while the permanent system is down. We set a trailer in the receiving lane and the store keeps selling.

Labor Day weekend fills the fairgrounds with food vendors and no walk-in space anywhere on the grounds. We deliver generator powered units for the weekend and pick them back up when it ends.

Institutional kitchens serving Cedar City's hospital, school district, and university dining cannot pause for equipment work. A temporary box carries them through a repair or a seasonal enrollment surge.

Trail crews, utility crews, and resort staff working the mountain corridor feed people a long way from a kitchen. Mobile refrigeration on a generator is the only realistic answer that far up the canyon.
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 Cedar City instead of a couple counties down the freeway, "can I get it today" is an ordinary ask here, not a stretch.
Add it up the way an owner in Cedar City 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.
Cedar City's own climate record runs from an all time high of 105 degrees to an all time low of 26 below zero, a spread of 131 degrees across the year on top of the wide day to night swing that low humidity and 5,670 feet of elevation already produce on an ordinary summer afternoon. Average snowfall for the city itself runs close to 48 inches a year, heaviest in December and January, while the mountain corridor thirty minutes up the road at Brian Head averages more than 360 inches, among the highest totals of any inhabited place in the country.
That swing changes what a compressor is working against. A unit that runs fine on a mild spring day is fighting triple digit heat by July and a hard freeze by January, often within the same week if a storm rolls off the plateau early. Monsoon moisture moves through southern Utah from about mid July through mid September, right when the Shakespeare Festival and the Summer Games are both running at full capacity, and a single storm cell can drop a circuit for hours with no warning.
Cedar Valley has real flood history to go with the snow. Enoch, seven miles up the valley, took on a flash flood in August 2021 that damaged roughly 200 homes. A grid that handles an ordinary Cedar Valley day does not have much slack left for a storm like that, and a walk-in cooler plugged into a circuit that drops does not get a grace period. A trailer running on its own generator does.
Cedar City runs one of the busiest event calendars of any city its size, and almost none of the venues that carry it have spare walk-in space. The Utah Shakespeare Festival alone draws more than 100,000 visitors across a season that now runs from late June through the first weekend of October, split between the 770-seat Randall L. Jones Theatre and the 921-seat Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, a Globe replica that opened in 2016. Two houses running nightly, plus the Greenshow crowd on the plaza between them, means a concessions operation feeding close to 1,700 seats before intermission on a good night, every night, for four straight months.
Layer the Utah Summer Games on top of that. More than 10,000 athletes compete across 40 sports every summer at SUU's Eccles Coliseum, the America First Event Center, and Thunderbird Park Complex, the same campus footprint the festival already uses. That is a feeding operation the size of a small town dropped into Cedar City for a few days, with catering tents scattered across fields and courts that were never built with a walk-in nearby.
Nineteen miles north, the Iron County Fair takes over the Parowan fairgrounds every Labor Day weekend with a PRCA Pro Rodeo, a demolition derby, a car show, and a full vendor row. None of that ground has a building to plug into, so cold storage out there needs a generator or it does not happen at all. Our crews also serve cold storage trailer rentals in Saint George for festival season, and the setup is the same problem in a different parking lot: open ground, a hard clock, and no walk-in in sight.
Up the mountain, Brian Head Resort runs its own summer festival calendar, an Escape the Heat music series and a September Oktoberfest, both explicitly built as a cool-air draw away from the valley floor below. A concessions or catering operation up there is working at 9,771 feet with none of the infrastructure a downtown kitchen takes for granted, and a generator powered box is often the only real answer.
Each trailer is an insulated, sealed cold room on a tow chassis, with a side man door and a roof mounted refrigeration plant. Inside is a food safe box built for direct product contact, with real drainage and a controller that shows the set point in plain numbers. Think portable cold room. Not a cargo box with a window unit bolted to the front.
The plant is sized to pull temperature down fast and then hold it for weeks, not coast through a mild afternoon. That headroom matters here, where a July day can hit the triple digits and a January night can drop well below freezing. A box that only holds its number in gentle weather is not much use in Cedar Valley.
We run three footprints so the answer fits the job instead of the other way around. A cafe or a coffee drive-through on the interstate frontage gets the compact size. A grocery department or a mid-size festival booth gets the middle one. Distribution yards and large feeding operations get the largest box, or several set side by side. So do the crews who run freezer and refrigerated trailer rentals nationwide for us.
Cedar Valley sits at 5,670 feet, and the frost free growing window here is shorter than it is along the Wasatch Front or down in the Dixie corridor near Saint George. Florists and garden centers serving Main Street and the university district front load their spring inventory hard instead of restocking gradually through a longer season, which means more finished stock sitting in cold storage ahead of the first warm weekend than a longer season market would ever need to carry.
SUU commencement, a wedding season timed to the mountain corridor's short warm stretch, and a Shakespeare Festival crowd that dresses up for evening receptions all pull on the same floral supply at once. A shop holding cut flowers for back to back weddings around festival opening weekend needs a cold room bigger than the walk-in built into most small retail spaces, and it needs it on short notice.
The same short season cuts both ways. A late cold snap can strand an entire spring shipment of bedding plants with nowhere colder than a shop's own reach-in to protect it, and an early fall frost can do the same thing to a fall mum order. A grower who gets caught by a surprise freeze in Cedar Valley loses the whole truckload without a bigger box to move it into fast.
We size these jobs the same way we size a restaurant walk-in failure: what is the coldest single item on the list, how many pallets, how much floor space does the lot actually have. A florist rarely needs the largest trailer we run, but the timing on a floral job is almost always tighter than anything else we deliver in Cedar City.
Iron County's agricultural roots go back to the county's founding. Parowan was settled in 1851 specifically as the farming base that fed the ironworks being built in Cedar City, and the area's agricultural identity later shifted into sheep ranch and into dairy production through the Southern Utah Dairy Company, once known regionally for its own cheese. That ranch and dairy backbone still shows up every Labor Day weekend at the Iron County Fair, where livestock exhibits and a working fairgrounds pull Cedar City catering trucks and vendor crews up the interstate.
Elevation compresses the growing season here more than it does in a lower desert valley, so hay cuttings, produce harvests, and any small orchard or farm stand operation in Cedar Valley move fast once they start, without much room to stagger deliveries across a long stretch of weeks. A packing shed or a farm stand supplying the Cedar City farmers market can go from empty to full in a matter of days once a crop comes in.
A rancher holding processed meat ahead of a fall sale, or a dairy operation running short on cooler space during a peak production week, runs into the same wall the old Southern Utah Dairy Company solved a century ago with its own cold rooms: product that has to be held cold, right now, in volume, with no slow ramp up to plan around.
We deliver onto gravel, dirt, or a farm lane just as often as we deliver onto pavement downtown. A trailer set at the edge of a hay field or next to a packing shed only needs a reasonably firm, level spot and a generator or a nearby circuit. Tell us the ground conditions when you call and we will tell you honestly whether our truck can get in and back out.
"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 Cedar City, 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 Cedar City 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.
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.
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 Cedar City layout cold, so the delivery is one clean trip instead of a guessing game on the property.
A festival concessions operation needed cold storage for a plaza with no building and no outlet anywhere close. We delivered a generator powered trailer two days before opening night, set it behind the Greenshow lawn, and picked it back up after the first weekend rush cleared.
A store needed to swap a refrigeration rack without losing a week of frozen and dairy sales. We set two trailers in the receiving lane, one on deep freeze and one on fresh cold, so the contractor got a clean window and the store never closed.
A food vendor row at the Iron County Fair needed cold storage for three days with nothing but open ground to work with. We staged units at two points along the row on generators, and moved one mid-weekend when a vendor's booth location changed.
We book the festival stack early. The Utah Shakespeare Festival runs its 65th season from late June through early October. The Utah Summer Games drop more than 10,000 athletes onto the same SUU campus every summer, right in the middle of that stretch. Add the Iron County Fair taking over the Parowan fairgrounds every Labor Day weekend and caterers who wait until the week of any one of these are competing with everyone else for the same trailers. Reserve early in the season and the rest of it stays simple.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Food service in Cedar City and across Iron County is permitted and inspected by the Southwest Utah Public Health Department, which also covers Beaver, Garfield, Kane, and Washington counties. The Iron County office sits at 260 East DL Sargent Drive in Cedar City, open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening and Friday 8 to 5. Get the permit before you serve anything and post it where the public can see it during the event.
The temperature line is the one that catches people off guard. Cold food has to stay at 41 degrees or below and hot food at 135 degrees or above, and the operation has to provide adequate facilities to hold those numbers in the first place. A cooler full of ice can work for a short event, but it loses ground fast once a festival or fair runs past a single day, especially on a warm Cedar Valley afternoon. A trailer holding a set number all weekend does not.
The rest of the checklist is where booths get written up. No food or food contact items belong on the ground, and everything needs to be covered or behind a guard. Water only comes through an approved hose, and liquid waste has to be collected and disposed of properly rather than dumped on the ground. Every worker needs a valid food handler permit. Here is one honest note from us: we supply food safe cold storage set to your number, and we do not offer temperature logging or alarm monitoring as a service. The digital readout is on the unit for anyone, inspector included, to check at a glance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The questions that surface once the basics are settled. Tap any topic to open it.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
"Commencement week nearly outran our own coolers. One phone call and a trailer showed up the next morning, easy."
"A late freeze right before a wedding weekend would have wiped out our whole flower order. They got us cold storage fast enough to save it."
"Held a full load of processed meat cold through our fall sale. Simple, no drama, ran the whole time without a hiccup."
"Vendor row at the fair has nothing but open ground and we needed cold storage for three days straight. Two units, both on generators, both handled fine."
"Running a kitchen at 9,000 feet during Oktoberfest weekend is its own headache. Their trailer did not care about the elevation at all."
"Our own cooler failed with a full load of temperature sensitive stock inside. The trailer held its set point without a single issue while we sorted the repair."
"Harvest came in faster than we expected and our own cold room filled up in two days. They got us a bigger box before anything spoiled."
"Booked early for festival season and glad we did. Trailer showed up cold, stayed cold, and pickup was right on schedule."
"Power dropped for hours during a storm and our backup plan was their generator unit. Nothing in the walk-in was even close to a problem."
Any time. Every KryoFridge trailer is dual purpose, running on one digital set point from roughly 10 below zero up to about 50 degrees. A caterer holding ice cream for a Shakespeare Festival weekend and produce for a Summer Games tent the next week rents the same box both times. Tell us the number you need at booking and we set it before delivery. Changing it later is a dial, not a different rental.
Each trailer has a side man door wide enough for a hand truck or a rolling rack, and the interior is a clear, food safe box rather than a fixed shelving grid. Most customers bring their own racks or shelving so the layout matches what they are moving. Tell us your load type when you book and we will talk through whether your existing racks fit or whether you need a different setup.
No minimum. A single restaurant walk-in load fits in our three trailer sizes. So do a few pallets from a farm stand, and so does a full grocery department cutover. The real question is your coldest item and your door traffic, since a box that gets opened every few minutes needs different placement than one that sits sealed until Friday.
Yes. We deliver onto gravel, dirt, or grass as long as the ground is reasonably firm and our truck can get in and back out. Fairgrounds, festival plazas, and farm lanes are all normal drops for us. Send us a photo of the spot if you are unsure and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
The biggest factors are trailer size, whether you need a generator or have a suitable circuit, how long you need the unit, and how far the delivery runs, especially up toward Brian Head or out to Parowan. Two customers with the same size trailer can end up with different quotes once the site and the length of the rental are factored in. Call and we will walk through your specific job.
Yes. We own and maintain the fleet ourselves, so a mechanical issue goes straight to our own team, not a third party. In the rare case a unit needs to be swapped, we move product into a replacement trailer and keep the loss as close to zero as possible. This is part of why we do not subcontract the fleet out.
As early in the season as you can manage. The Utah Shakespeare Festival runs late June through early October and the Utah Summer Games land in the middle of that same stretch, both pulling on the same pool of trailers at once. Caterers and vendors who wait until the week of either event are competing with everyone else in Iron County for what is left.
The refrigeration plant is sized with headroom for both extremes, hot and cold alike. We deliver units already cold instead of starting from ambient temperature in your lot. Placement matters too. We look for open air away from a west facing wall in the afternoon sun. A Cedar Valley day and night can look completely different, and the trailer is built to handle both.
Typically under an hour inside Cedar City, since we keep pre-cooled units staged for Iron County rather than sourcing one after the call comes in. Tell us whether the load is frozen, refrigerated, or both, and roughly how much of it there is. We will send the right size on the first trip.
Yes, and almost every one of those jobs needs a generator since the corridor rarely has a suitable building circuit nearby. We plan the drive time up SR-143 into the delivery window rather than promising a downtown Cedar City time on a mountain address, especially once snow starts flying.
Cold food has to stay at 41 degrees or below, and the permit needs to be posted where the public can see it. Every worker handling food needs a valid food handler permit. Our trailers hold food safely at whatever number you need, with the set point visible on a digital readout. The permit itself is yours to pull from the department's Iron County office before the event.
It can, as long as the timing lines up and you tell us about the move in advance so we can plan the relocation. We have shifted a unit from a festival plaza to a campus event inside the same week before. The key is calling early enough that we can build the swap into our schedule rather than scrambling on short notice.
Practical guides written from the jobs we actually run in Cedar Valley, covering the first hour of a failure, what to ask before you book, sizing, cost drivers, and when a rented trailer beats an ice chest. Open any one of them.
The first move is not calling a refrigeration tech. It is getting a thermometer into the product and finding out where you actually stand. A box reading 44 degrees with the door shut is a different problem than one reading 56 with the fan dead, and the two calls you make next depend entirely on which one you have. Write down the time. Everything after that is a clock.
Utah requires cold food to stay at 41 degrees or below. Once product crosses that line heading up, the safe window is measured in a few cumulative hours, not a full day, and in a Cedar Valley kitchen in July the outside air is working against you the whole time. So the second move is triage, not repair. Separate what is still cold and worth saving from what is already marginal, and stop opening the door on the good side of that pile.
Start with power. There are exactly two ways to run one of our trailers, a dedicated 120 volt, 20 amp circuit within about 100 feet of where the unit sits, or a generator we supply. Most permanent kitchens have a suitable outlet somewhere. Open ground, a fairgrounds booth, or a mountain venue almost never does, so ask early which one your site needs.
Ask about size in terms of what you are actually holding, not a generic label. The coldest single item on your list sets the temperature for the whole box, and the volume sets the footprint. A florist protecting a spring shipment and a grocery department covering a rack replacement need very different answers even though both might call it a small job.
Trailer size is the first lever. A compact box for a single restaurant walk-in costs less to run and deliver than the largest footprint we operate, and matching the size to the actual load, not to a worst case guess, keeps the number honest on both ends.
Power is the second lever. A site with a suitable dedicated circuit within 100 feet is a simpler job than one that needs a generator we supply and fuel. Festival plazas, fairgrounds booths, and most mountain venues fall into the generator category. That changes the math compared to a downtown kitchen with power already at the curb.
Pallet count is the starting point, not the whole answer. A single restaurant walk-in load usually fits our compact size with room to spare. A grocery department cutover or a large festival caterer usually needs the middle size or the largest one. A fairgrounds vendor row often takes both set side by side.
Door traffic changes the sizing conversation as much as volume does. A prep cook opening the door every few minutes needs a different setup than a sealed overflow box nobody touches until the weekend is over. High traffic loses cold air every time the door opens, so a box under constant use benefits from a bit more headroom than the raw pallet math alone would suggest.
Utah's temporary event rules do allow ice chests and cold tables for holding food, alongside mechanical refrigeration, and for a short event that is genuinely enough. A two hour farmers market booth or a quick lunch service can run on ice without much drama.
The math changes once an event runs longer than a single afternoon. Ice loses ground steadily, and a chest that started the day at 34 degrees can be well above 41 by the second day of a multi day festival or fair, especially on a warm Cedar Valley afternoon. A vendor relying on ice through a full Iron County Fair weekend is fighting a slow, constant battle a mechanical box does not have to fight at all.
Call and tell us what you need to hold, or request a free quote online and we will size the right trailer for your site. Emergencies move to the front of the schedule.