KryoFridge delivers portable freezer trailer rentals across Lakewood and the west Denver metro, pre-cooled and ready to load the day they land on your lot. We set units behind restaurants near Belmar and at grocery back doors along Wadsworth Boulevard, usually within days of your call. Every trailer holds anywhere from -10°F to 50°F on one digital set point. Call 866-699-5802 now, or request a free quote and we'll lock in your dates today.
A dead grid on a high-wind day, or a recall that fills your back room overnight, should cost you a few phone calls instead of a dumpster full of product. With a portable freezer on your own lot, that's how it plays out. KryoFridge has spent years being that backup plan for kitchens, grocers, and distributors on the west side of the metro. We own every unit we rent, so nobody is waiting on a broker to go find a trailer while your product warms up. Our crews are backed by more than 30 years in the equipment rental industry, and the company is fully licensed and insured. Call 866-699-5802 the minute something goes sideways, or request a free quote now and put a trailer on standby before you ever need it.
Every unit we rent belongs to us, so you deal directly with the people who maintain it, dispatch it, and pick it up. There is no broker in the middle working through a phone list while your product warms up.
Each trailer works as either a freezer or a refrigerator. You can set it anywhere from -10°F to 50°F, and you can change the setting whenever your needs change during the rental.
The unit plugs into a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit within 100 feet, or it draws power from a generator we deliver with it. That's the whole list, and we confirm which one fits before we schedule anything.
KryoFridge comes from a family of rental companies with more than 30 years in event and equipment rental. We have seen what usually breaks on a job, and we plan around those problems before they reach your lot.
We are SAM.gov registered, licensed, and insured. That keeps the paperwork simple for government agencies and contractors who need temporary cold storage on public projects.
If the nation's largest chains trust us to protect their inventory, your kitchen is in good hands. These are brands that vet a cold-storage partner the same careful way they vet a food supplier, and they keep calling us back.
Dutch BrosA trailer set as a cooler for milk and cold stock between deliveries.
Cooler overflow
Chick-fil-ABackup cold storage for busy restaurants when in-store refrigeration goes down.
Cooler backup
Panda ExpressOverflow freezer space for frozen product between distributor deliveries.
Overflow storage
McDonald'sOne trailer set as a freezer or a cooler, sized to the stock a busy kitchen keeps close.
Freezer or cooler
Burger KingHolding frozen stock during kitchen remodels and equipment swaps.
Freezer hold"Our walk-in compressor quit on a Sunday morning in July, right before our busiest shift of the week. KryoFridge had a trailer behind the building before lunch, already cold, and we didn't throw away a single case."
"A recall came through on frozen berries and we had nowhere to put the pulled cases. They had a trailer out back fast, and we kept everything tagged and separate until the distributor picked it up."
"Two-day corporate event, no kitchen on site. The trailer held all of our prepped trays at 36 degrees for both days and saved us a daily delivery run across town."
In Lakewood, the 16' Utility is the unit we send when a walk-in fails behind a Colfax store or a grocer on Kipling Parkway needs room for a surprise big shipment. Its side utility door lets a cook grab one case without letting the whole box warm up.
The 16' Utility earned its flagship spot the hard way, on jobs where a few degrees of drift would have cost somebody their inventory. The box is 16 feet long and fully insulated, riding on a tandem axle. The interior is NSF approved. One digital set point covers everything from -10°F frozen storage to a 50°F produce cooler. There are two ways in: rear double doors for pallets, and the side utility door for everyday grab-and-go.
Because we own and service the entire fleet, the trailer on your lot was prepped in our yard, not scrambled together after your call. It lives on a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit or a generator we supply, and it keeps its temperature whether the job runs a weekend or a full season.
| 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 across all of Lakewood, from the Green Mountain foothills to the Sheridan Boulevard line, and out into Golden, Wheat Ridge, Littleton, and the rest of the metro. Our service area covers all 50 states for long-term and disaster work, so a business that opens a second site somewhere else can keep working with the same team. Call 866-699-5802 or request a quote with your address, and we'll confirm the drop time.
Neighborhoods and towns we cover include Belmar, Green Mountain, Bear Creek, Union Square, Two Creeks, Eiber, Morse Park, Glennon Heights, Carmody, Kendrick Lake, Southern Gables, Alameda, Mountair Park, Lasley, Academy Park, Applewood, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Edgewater, Morrison, Littleton, Arvada, Westminster, Denver.
Each community around Lakewood has its own venues, its own events, and its own cold storage headaches. We work all of them.
Belmar has the busiest mix of restaurants, breweries, and event space in the city. Most calls here are for emergency walk-in backup or for overflow storage during plaza markets and concerts, and the service lots are big enough that the 16' Utility usually fits without any trouble.
The 40 West Arts District packs galleries, taprooms, and small kitchens along a narrow commercial strip. First Friday crowds hit the same few kitchens every single month, so placement is often at the curb or in a rear alley, so the 6x8 gets a lot of work here.
The 670-acre federal campus and the office parks around it host conferences, training sessions, and big catered lunches. Deliveries onto a gated campus usually need a gate check planned ahead, and we sort that out with the event contact before we dispatch.
The western foothills edge of the city is mostly homes, parks, and neighborhood shopping centers. Foothill wind events are part of life here, so most of our calls come from grocers and restaurants protecting stock. Ice cream trucks also stage near the parks in summer.
Golden, the county seat, sits right against the foothills with only a few routes in and out. Buffalo Bill Days in late July fills downtown, so we drop early in the morning before the streets close. Colorado School of Mines events add another round of catering work every spring.
The Carnation Festival fills Anderson Park each August with food booths but no permanent commercial kitchen. Farmers markets and produce stands add steady summer demand for storage at refrigerator temps.
One call sizes the trailer, sets the delivery window, and locks your quote for Lakewood. Call now, or send the quick quote request and we will call you.
Most of the calls we get from Lakewood businesses fall into three groups. Either something broke or got recalled, a caterer needs cold storage far away from the home kitchen, or a frozen dessert company has simply grown too big for its freezers. Each situation plays out a little differently on the ground.

Patient meals can't stop for a broken cooler, even for an afternoon. When a care kitchen on the west side replaces a walk-in, we position a refrigerated unit near the loading area so tray service continues on schedule and the dietary team never has to improvise.

District kitchens often replace freezer equipment while school is out, or receive a USDA Foods delivery before there is anywhere to put it. A 6x16 Utility parked in the bus lot holds those pallets at 0°F until the kitchen is ready for them.

Kegs and canned releases pile up before a big weekend, and the taproom cooler is usually the first thing to run out of room. We set a trailer at refrigerator temperature so the main cooler stays available for whatever is currently on tap.

Colorado's fall big game seasons fill small processors' freezers quickly in October and November. A deep-freeze unit behind the shop gives them extra room for wrapped and labeled cuts until every hunter comes back to pick up an order.

Flowers need cold storage that never drops to freezing. Before Valentine's Day and Mother's Day we set a trailer around 36°F for flower shops whose regular cooler can't hold the extra inventory those two holidays bring in.

Donated frozen food tends to arrive in large batches, especially in the weeks before Thanksgiving. We hold it at 0°F until volunteers have the time and the space to sort it and distribute it to families.
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 Lakewood 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 Lakewood 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 one is booked with a single call.
Power on the west side rarely stays out for long, but when it does go, it tends to happen on the worst possible day. Heavy spring snow pulls down lines, and summer storms build over Green Mountain in the late afternoon. Xcel Energy has also shut off power to parts of the Front Range foothills ahead of high wind days to cut wildfire risk. For a restaurant on Alameda Avenue, a few hours without a compressor is annoying. A full day is a different story.
We treat an outage call as a two-step job. First we get a unit on the road that was pre-cooled at the yard, so it's already cold when it backs in. Then we set it as close to your back door as the lot allows, because every extra trip across a warm parking lot costs you product temperature. If your building has no power at all, we bring a generator on the same trip, since a trailer can't plug into a dead panel.
Recalls are the other half of this work, and they catch people off guard. When a supplier pulls a lot of frozen vegetables or ground beef, the store has to get those cases off the shelf and keep them apart from everything it can still sell. Back rooms fill up fast. A 6x12 set at 0°F behind the building gives you a separate, labeled space for pulled product until the distributor comes back for it, and your own walk-in stays clear for stock you can still sell.
Supplier dumps work the same way in reverse. A distributor ships double for a holiday promotion, or a buyer grabs a good deal on a big load of frozen protein, and suddenly there is nowhere to put it. We have held that kind of overflow for a week and for a whole quarter. Because each trailer swings from freezer to fridge on one dial, the same box that held recalled product in March can hold fresh produce in April.
We build our fleet in three footprints. The 6x8 is the compact pick and works well in the tight rear lots you find along West Colfax Avenue. The 6x12 is the middle size, and it's what most caterers and neighborhood grocers end up with once we talk through what they actually need to store. The 6x16 Utility is our signature unit, built for the biggest jobs, and it adds that side door for quick grabs.
Every unit is dual purpose. One adjustable system holds anything from -10°F for ice cream and frozen protein up to 50°F for produce, and you set it on a digital controller. The interior surfaces are NSF approved, so a health inspector sees a real cooler instead of a makeshift box. Power comes from a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit within 100 feet of the trailer, or from a generator we bring along.
The same 16' Utility that handles our Tempe cold storage trailer rentals through 110-degree July afternoons holds its number through a Lakewood summer without trouble. Here the harder problems tend to be hail, mountain wind, and the sudden cold snaps that drop in overnight. We plan placement around all of that before the truck leaves.
Catering around Lakewood means a lot of the work happens far from the home kitchen. An evening reception at the Lakewood Cultural Center needs cold holding close to the service line, and so does a weekly corporate lunch in an office park off Union Boulevard. A reach-in and a stack of coolers won't carry four hundred portions of chicken plus a full dessert course.
We usually set the trailer the day before the event, which gives it a full night at temperature before you load. For most catering jobs we run it at refrigerator temps, around 36°F, so salads, dairy, and plated desserts hold without freezing. If the menu also has ice cream or frozen snacks, a second unit at freezer temps keeps the two apart.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a short drive west, just past Morrison, and its summer concert runs create a different kind of demand. Hospitality and concession crews working several shows in a row want to restock once, not every afternoon. A trailer staged at a nearby prep kitchen or commissary lets them hold drinks, cut fruit, and grab-and-go items for the whole run instead of waiting on a daily truck.
Placement matters more at events than almost anywhere else. Parking lots and event spaces have slopes, edges, and foot traffic, so we look at the site with you, in person or through photos, before the drop. We point the doors toward the prep tent and keep the condenser end away from guests. If the event runs late, the pickup can wait until the next morning.
Ice cream is the hardest product we hold. It has to stay deep-frozen, and every time a tub gets soft and refreezes it turns icy and lumpy. For frozen desserts we set the box at its coldest, -10°F. That's colder than most dipping cabinets, and it keeps tubs and frozen treats firm between restocks.
Summer is when this work stacks up. Ice cream trucks restock every morning before they roll into neighborhoods like Green Mountain and Bear Creek. Small ice cream shops run out of freezer space right when a grocery chain places a big order for their pints. Frozen treat vendors also book booths at Belmar events and at summer festivals from Golden to Wheat Ridge, and a chest freezer in a garage was never built for that kind of volume.
For these jobs we like the 6x8 or the 6x12, parked right where the trucks load. A shorter box loses less cold air each time the door opens. The side door on the 16' Utility helps when someone only needs one case of pops. We have run the same setup for a whole season, from the first warm weekend in May into September.
Heat is still the enemy, even at altitude. At 5,656 feet the sun hits a trailer roof hard, so we park with the condenser in open air and, when the lot allows, keep the doors out of the late afternoon sun. It's the same habit our crews use on Surprise refrigerated trailer rentals, where July is a lot less forgiving than it is here.
"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 Lakewood, 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 matters more than 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 Lakewood 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 Lakewood layout cold, so the delivery is one clean trip instead of a guessing game on the property.
A typical setup for a grocery store handling a supplier recall looks like this: a 6x12 trailer sets up behind the store at 0°F soon after the recall notice comes in, giving staff a separate space to tag and hold pulled product away from sellable stock. The trailer stays until the distributor collects the recalled cases, which can take anywhere from a few days to over a week. This keeps recalled product from ever sharing shelf space with fresh inventory.
A typical setup for a caterer working a multi-day event with no cold room on site looks like this: a 6x16 Utility trailer drops at the loading area the afternoon before, set to 36°F for prepped trays and ingredients. The crew moves trays from their van straight into the trailer each morning, and service pulls from it by the rack. One supply run covers the whole event instead of a trip across town for each day.
A typical setup for a mobile ice cream or frozen treat business during an early heat wave looks like this: a 6x8 trailer sets up beside the lot at -10°F, giving the trucks a deep-freeze source that a few chest freezers in a garage cannot match once temperatures climb. Trucks load straight from the trailer each morning before heading out. Many businesses keep the trailer on hand through the hottest stretch of the season.
We scout the drop spot before the truck rolls. A roomy Belmar service lot and a narrow West Colfax alley call for very different approaches. We ask for a photo or a quick walk-through, measure the distance to your circuit, and choose an angle that points the doors toward your kitchen. That preparation is the reason most of our deliveries take one clean trip.
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.
A rented refrigerated trailer counts as cold storage in the eyes of a health inspector, the same as a fixed walk-in. In Lakewood, retail food inspections are handled by Jefferson County Public Health under the Colorado Retail Food Establishment Rules. Cold food has to stay at 41°F or below, and frozen food has to stay frozen solid. Our units hold those numbers easily, and the NSF-approved interior gives the inspector clean, cleanable surfaces to look at.
Temporary event vendors need their own permit. A booth at a festival or market operates under a temporary food license, separate from a restaurant's standing license. The health department wants to see how cold food stays cold for the full event, including overnight on a two-day run. A trailer holding a steady set point is a simple answer to that question, and it beats a row of ice chests every time.
Recalled product has its own rules. The FDA and USDA post recalls, and a store has to pull the affected lots and keep them apart from food that's still for sale. Label the pulled cases clearly and keep them on their own shelves, or better yet, in their own unit. Keep a thermometer and your own temperature log inside the trailer, just like the one on your walk-in, so an inspector sees the same record either way.
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 |
All three sizes switch between freezer and cooler mode, so the choice comes down to footprint and how much product you need to hold.
It's 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.
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.
Our biggest footprint, 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 burns 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 within days, not months, 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.
"Chest freezers were a headache every summer. Now we rent a small trailer for the entire season and load the trucks directly out of it each morning, and the novelties stay hard even in August."
"Quick and simple. They backed the small trailer into our narrow alley on the first try and had it plugged in and cooling within minutes."
"Their dispatcher called our gate office ahead of time and had the paperwork sorted before the truck ever showed up. That almost never happens with outside vendors."
"A donation of frozen turkeys showed up two weeks before Thanksgiving with nowhere to go. KryoFridge had a deep-freeze unit in our lot the next morning, and every bird made it to a family."
"Elk season fills our freezers by the second weekend. The trailer gave us enough extra room for every hunter's order until pickup, and it held steady the entire time."
"I sell frozen pops at summer festivals around the west metro. Having a rented freezer beside the vendor lot meant I never ran out of inventory on a hot afternoon."
"The power went out overnight during a spring snowstorm. They brought a generator and a trailer, and we opened on time the next day with everything still frozen."
"We rent before Mother's Day every year. They set it at 36 degrees and it stays right there the whole week, which is exactly what fresh flowers need. Easy people to work with."
"Our freezer replacement ran two weeks longer than planned. The trailer covered us the whole time, and they extended it with one phone call."
Most of our customers load by hand or with a pallet jack, and the trailer sits low enough that staff can carry cases in without a dock. For full pallets, break them down at the door, or tell us about your setup when you book so we can plan the loading around it. If you bring in wire shelving or racks, leave a few inches of space along the walls and near the evaporator so cold air can move around the product. Heavy items belong on the lower shelves, and the stock you pull most often should sit closest to the door.
On your own private lot, the main sign-off is usually your property owner or landlord. If the trailer has to sit on a street, in an alley, or in a city park, check with the City of Lakewood first, since public space goes through city permits. For food events, Jefferson County Public Health handles the temporary food license. We can help you figure out where the trailer can safely sit before we schedule the drop.
Measure your walk-in's floor and estimate how much of that space is actually full on a typical delivery day. The 6x12 is our mid-size unit, and the 16' Utility is the biggest we run. Most single restaurants fit comfortably in a 6x12. If you have heavy door traffic, like a lunch line pulling cases all day, the side door on the Utility helps a lot, because nobody is opening the big rear doors every few minutes.
Yes. Our units hold their set point through triple-digit afternoons, so a 95-degree July day in Lakewood is well within their operating range. Cold snaps raise a different question, because frozen stock is fine, but if you're holding fresh produce or dairy at fridge temps during a subzero night, tell us, and we'll plan the set point and placement so nothing freezes by accident.
Yes, and plenty of our customers prefer it that way. Ice cream businesses keep a trailer from May into September, and game processors keep one through the fall hunting seasons. Longer rentals are quoted differently than short emergency rentals, so tell us your dates and we'll build the term around them, with room to extend if the job runs long.
Each trailer holds one set point, which means you get one temperature per unit. If you need both frozen and refrigerated storage, the simplest setup is two trailers, one at freezer temps and one at fridge temps. Another common setup is to keep fresh product in your own cooler and move only the frozen stock into the trailer. Tell us what you're holding, and we'll suggest the simplest way to cover both.
You need a fairly level spot close to your door and a clear path for our truck to back in. You also need power, which means a dedicated 120V, 20-amp circuit within 100 feet, or room for a generator we bring. Move cars and dumpsters out of the way before the delivery window, and have someone on site who can approve the placement. Once the truck is there, the drop itself goes quickly.
Book as soon as you know your event or project dates. Summer weekends and the weeks around Thanksgiving and Christmas are our busiest stretches, because catering and grocery overflow pile up on top of the usual emergencies. Two to four weeks ahead is a safe window for planned work. Emergencies are different, so call the moment something fails and we'll send whatever unit is available.
Emergency calls go to the front of the line, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The exact timing depends on the hour, traffic on US 6 and Wadsworth, and which units are open at that moment. The trailer arrives pre-cooled, so you can start loading right away. If your building has no power, tell us on the first call and we'll bring a generator on the same trip.
A separate trailer is the cleanest way to handle a recall. Pulled product has to stay apart from sellable stock, clearly labeled, until the supplier or distributor takes it back. A separate unit makes that hard to mess up, because nobody grabs a case from the wrong shelf in the middle of a rush. If you share one trailer, give recalled cases their own marked shelving and keep a written count.
Yes. Gated sites simply take more planning up front, and we handle most of it for you. We'll ask for the person who manages gate access, the delivery window, and any vehicle details the gate needs. With that sorted ahead of time, the drop goes like any other.
Deeper reading for local businesses, from the failure-hour playbook to compliance and seasonal planning. Tap any guide to open it.
Most people shopping for cold storage on wheels are doing it under pressure, because the walk-in just died or an event is next week and the caterer's cold room fell through. That's exactly when it's easy to skip the questions that matter most. After years of delivering around Lakewood, these are the ones we would ask if we were standing on your side of the phone.
Ask who owns the trailer. Some companies that answer your call are brokers who find a unit from someone else, add their margin, and hand the delivery off to a driver they have never met. That arrangement can work on a slow week. When something goes wrong at nine at night, you want the company that can send its own driver and its own replacement unit without making three other phone calls first. Every KryoFridge trailer is ours, and we maintain the whole fleet ourselves.
The outdoor food season in and around Lakewood runs from the first spring markets at Belmar all the way through Cider Days in early October. Close by, Golden's Buffalo Bill Days fills late July, and the Carnation Festival in Wheat Ridge takes over Anderson Park in August. If you sell food at any of these events, cold storage is the part of the plan that most vendors leave until the final week, and it shows.
Start with your permit, since it shapes almost everything else. Food booths in Lakewood work under a temporary food license from Jefferson County Public Health, and the application asks how you will keep cold food cold for the full event. A trailer holding a set temperature gives you a clear, simple answer to that question. Check the county's current requirements early, because permit timelines and paperwork can vary from one event to the next.
Further reading: Jefferson County Public Health.
We never put prices on a web page, because two Lakewood jobs that look alike on paper can price out very differently once we know the details. What we can do is show you what moves the number up or down. Knowing these factors ahead of time helps you get a faster and cleaner quote, and it keeps surprises off the final bill.
The first factor is size. A 6x8 costs less to deliver and keep running than a 6x16 Utility, so size the unit to what you will actually hold instead of what feels safe. If you tell us your pallet count or the size of your walk-in, we'll match the trailer to it and tell you honestly if a smaller one covers the job. Plenty of callers expect to need the biggest box and end up fine with a smaller one.
When a walk-in cooler or freezer fails, you have a few choices, and the clock is already running. FDA guidance says a closed refrigerator keeps food cold for about four hours, and a full freezer holds its temperature for about 48 hours, or 24 if it's half full. A commercial walk-in gets opened far more often than a home freezer, especially during service, so plan on having less time than that.
Option one is waiting on the repair, and sometimes that's perfectly reasonable. A technician shows up, swaps a fan motor, and you're back in business before the dinner rush. Compressors and some specialty parts can take days to arrive, and a slow repair quietly turns into a lost weekend of product. If the tech can't promise a same-day fix, start working on a backup plan while you wait instead of after.
Further reading: FDA guidance on food safety during power outages.
Hail is a real business risk along the Front Range, and Lakewood has the proof. In May 2017 a hailstorm damaged Colorado Mills so badly that the 1.4 million square foot mall closed for months of repairs. Most storms do far less damage than that, of course. One bad afternoon can wreck the rooftop condenser that cools your walk-in, and the same storm can knock out power for a day or more.
Storm season here runs mostly from late spring through summer, with cells building over the foothills in the afternoon and sliding east across the city. The National Weather Service office in Boulder issues watches and warnings for the Denver metro, so sign a manager up for alerts and make sure someone knows when a warned storm is headed for your part of town. Crews on our St. George freezer trailer rentals mostly plan around summer heat, but here hail is the one to plan for.
Further reading: National Weather Service Boulder office.
Call 866-699-5802 at any hour, or send the quote form with your dates and a rough idea of what you need to hold. We'll recommend the right size and schedule a delivery time that works for your crew.