Portable Kitchens – It’s What We Do!

PKL Group, (Portable Kitchens limited), are market leaders in the supply of portable kitchens for hire. The hire of portable kitchens has been at the very heart of our business for nearly 25 years, and since then we have developed a wide range of solutions to cater for a wide range of needs and end users, which are available to hire from just a few days, to a number of years.

We have a range of portable kitchens, large and small, ready to hire depending on your requirement.

Field Kitchens

Our field kitchen is the smallest in our range of portable kitchens and provides space for 2 members of staff to work comfortably. This kitchen can serve up to 500 meals per session and is popular for hire in care homes and smaller pubs and restaurants.

Mini Kitchens

PKL Mini Kitchens provide space for 2-3 members of staff to work comfortably at one time and are capable of producing up to 1,000 meals per session. These kitchens are typically hired by nursing homes, small hotels, event caterers and smaller schools.

Magnum Kitchens

Magnum Kitchens are the largest stand-alone portable kitchen units in our range, and are capable of supplying over 1,000 meals in one session. Magnum kitchens provide space for up to 5 members of staff to work comfortably at once and are typically hired by hotels, prisons, the armed forces, large scale event caterers, large scale commercial / industrial caterers, education sector.

Triton Kitchens
 

The Triton Kitchen is the most comprehensive in our range of portable kitchens, incorporating ware washing, preparation and food storage and production areas. Our Triton Kitchens allow for up to 10 staff to work together comfortably and can be used to produce over 2,000 meals in one session. Triton Kitchens are typically hire by the MOD, hospitals, large restaurants, large scale commercial / industrial caterers, high volume staff catering and the education sector.

Preparation Kitchens

PKL also supplies a range of preparation and ancillary units that can be linked to our Portable Kitchens including preparation kitchens, dishwash units cold and dry storage units.

Bespoke Facilities to Suit Your Needs

Our Portable Kitchens and preparation units can be linked together to produce a bespoke facility to suit your needs, whatever your size of catering requirement. 

To help provide a starting point, or to offer you a quick and effective solution, we have devised a range of Proven Packages, combinations of our units linked together to provide a number of different kitchen facilities, suitable for serving anywhere from 100 to 1000s of meals per session.

Our kitchens can be equipped from our range of extensive range of over 8,000 items of catering equipment.

PKL at the Olympics - Beijing 2008 Athletes Village Kitchen and Dining

The Beijing Summer Olympics was the largest Olympics ever – and this was also true of the athletes dining facility in the Olympic Village. There were 16,000 athletes and officials from 204 countries, as well as 10,000 staff and guests – all to be fed 24 hours a day. 

Working through the master caterer ARAMARK, PKL were responsible for the design liaison, specification, supply, installation and 24 hour maintenance of all the foodservice equipment and coolroom facilities, in an area, which covered 20,000 sqm or three soccer pitches. 

To ensure a successful delivery, PKL established a project office in Beijing 12 months before the Games began. In addition to permanent PKL management and engineering staff, a team of Chinese project managers, translators and administrators were employed overcome any language, cultural and technical hurdles. All facilities were designed in full compliance to local fire, hygiene and construction standards. 

The key operational factor of this project was the ability of PKL to utilise prefabricated complex Portable Kitchen modules, and ship them worldwide quickly and cost effectively. All the equipment used was from the PKL hire fleet and at the end of the Games was re-hired to other projects.

For more information on our installation at the Athletes Village in Beijing, please click on the link below: http://www.pkl.co.uk/foodservices/portablekitchenhire.asp

PKL Group Gas Safe Accredited

PKL Group and all of our engineers are included on the Gas Safe Register, ensuring that the company works legally and competently within current legislation when installing items of gas powered catering equipment.

The Gas Safe Register deals with all aspects of the downstream gas industry covered by the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and the Gas Safety (Installation and Use). Regulations 1994 as amended and applied by the Gas Safety (Application) Order 1996 in the Isle of Man.

Business Awards Success for PKL Group

PKL Group has won the Business Innovation award and was named runner up in the overall Business of the Year Category at this year’s Gloucestershire Business Awards.

The event, which showcased the best in Gloucestershire businesses, was held at Cheltenham Racecourse and was attended by nearly 650 people. Over 300 companies throughout the county entered.

PKL Group won the award for Business Innovation, gaining recognition for a number of products including the KitchenPod and KitchenFM as well as delivering innovative solutions at large scale events, such as the Athletes Village Dining and media catering facilities at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Judges were particularly impressed with the innovative culture that runs through the company and the attitude of management to develop and encourage innovation from staff throughout the company.

The awards add to a successful year for PKL, who received a Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the International Trade category in April.

Top Safety Accreditation for PKL Group (UK) Ltd.

PKL Group is one of the latest group of successful companies to join a leading edge scheme, designed to help industry improve its safety record. 

 

The Cheltenham-based firm recently received accreditation from SAFEcontractor, a programme which recognises very high standards of health and safety practice amongst UK contractors. 

Employing around 100 people in the UK PKL is principally involved in the supply of temporary Portable Kitchens and Catering Equipment for hire

SAFEcontractor is applicable to most sectors although it is particularly relevant to food manufacture, property, facilities management, retail and leisure sectors, all of which are big users of contract services. 

Darran Hughes; Operations Director of SAFEcontractor said, "Major organisations can no longer run the risk of employing contractors who are not able to prove that they have sound health and safety policies".

"More companies need to understand the importance of adopting good risk management in the way that PKL has done. The firms’ high standard has set an example, which hopefully will be followed by other companies within the sector".

Under the SAFEcontractor system, businesses undergo a vetting process, which examines health and safety procedures and their track record for safe practice.

Those companies meeting the high standard are included on a database, which is accessible to registered users only via a website, www.safecontractor.com.

Employer-organisations who sign up to the scheme can access the database, which enables them to vet potential contractors before they even set foot on site. These employers agree that, as users of the scheme, they will engage only those who have received accreditation. 

Over one hundred and twenty major nation-wide businesses, from several key sectors, have signed up to use the scheme when selecting contractors for services such as building, cleaning, maintenance, refurbishment or electrical and mechanical work.

Rapid Response Portable Kitchens and Catering Equipment Used to Feed Army Troops

PKL supplied the MOD with commercial catering facilities, capable of supplying up to 35,000 military personnel in the Middle East.

The project was in response to an urgent kitchen enquiry and design and brief costs were supplied to the client within a matter of hours, while the first portable kitchen units were dispatched from the UK within 72 hours.

The facility comprised of seven military kitchens capable of feeding 5,000 men each. The complex was made up from Portable Kitchen units and commercial catering equipment and utilised PKL’s unique containerised canopy. This approach enabled the equipment and associated items to be mobilised ready for shipping very quickly.

The Portable Kitchens were transported by heavy-lift Antonov transport planes and installation of the first facility commenced within 12 hours of arrival.

This project best demonstrates PKL's unique rapid response capabilities previously exercised in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Within the UK we deal with emergency enquiries on a daily basis, and are able to supply Portable Kitchens and catering equipment for hire at very short notice. Typical emergencies we are asked to provide temporary catering facilities to cover include kitchen fires, kitchen flooding and unforeseen kitchen closure.

Temporary Kitchens at the All African Games

The All African Games is the largest athletics sporting event on the continent. Over 2,000 athletes from 53 African countries attended the 2 week event in October 2003 and all wanted to take advantage of the world class event catering facilities.

We supplied nearly 500 items of event catering equipment from our stock of over 8,000, including hot and cold servery counters, beverage boilers, catering sinks, wash hand basins and sundry servery items.

With so many athletes to feed in such a short time period, the organising committee needed to be sure that the foodservice equipment was able to cope and met the most rigorous of food hygiene standards. PKL was first choice.

We project managed the entire delivery and installation procedure and had trained engineers on site at all times to service the equipment during the operating period.

PKL has long been associated with the world's major sporting events and have provided Portable Kitchens and first class event catering facilities to the World Student Games, Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games - but the All African Games was a first.