Twin Cities, Minnesota Mobile Refrigeration Trailer Rental

Food shelves meeting the challenge of COVID-19

The local source article “Food shelves meeting the challenge of COVID-19,” dated March 11, 2021, reports Pillsbury United Communities' food shelves at Waite House and Brian Coyle Center served more than triple their usual volume when COVID-19 stay-at-home orders began. The organization's March 11, 2021 retrospective described sustaining that effort through 2020, with staff taking a larger role in packaging and distributing groceries. Waite House used an unused gymnasium to accommodate the influx and installed a walk-in cooler to hold more fresh produce. The response also expanded sourcing of culturally relevant foods through local minority-owned grocers. We serve Minneapolis, with Golden Valley, Plymouth, Minnetonka and Edina across the western metro. Twin Cities coverage includes St. Paul, Roseville, Shoreview, White Bear Lake, Maplewood, Oakdale and Woodbury to the east; Richfield, Bloomington, Eagan, Burnsville, Apple Valley and Lakeville to the south; and Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Coon Rapids, Anoka and Blaine to the north

The March 11, 2021 account described two different responses to heavier demand at Waite House: a gymnasium provided room for the changed distribution operation, while a walk-in cooler increased fresh-produce holding. Those additions addressed different needs as staff assumed more packaging work.

A comparable food shelf could use temporary mobile refrigeration rental when the produce it needs to serve households exceeds its regular chilled capacity. Plan storage access alongside the staff's packaging workload and review which goods need refrigeration, rather than treating every donation as the same kind of stock. Call +1 (866) 216-4667, available by phone 24/7, to discuss the proposed capacity and working layout.