This 20ft shipping container café and restaurant is a built-to-order commercial food and beverage unit constructed on a new one-trip 20ft × 8ft shipping container base and fully configured to your specification before dispatch. The one-trip base provides a near-new steel structure — clean walls, sound floor, and tight seals — as the starting point for a conversion that can be tailored to operate as a café, bar, snack stand, pop-up restaurant, or any food and beverage service format. Every aspect of the fit-out — layout, fixtures, fittings, serving configuration, branding, and exterior finish — is specified at time of order by your in-house design team in consultation with JK Shipping LLC.

The interior is lined with 8mm melamine-faced chipboard wall panels, providing a smooth, easy-clean surface suited to food service environments — more hygienic and durable than bare steel walls for a commercial kitchen or service counter context. The floor is 28mm marine plywood as a structural base with a 2mm vinyl covering applied over it — the vinyl providing an easy-clean, non-porous working surface for food service use. Internal dimensions of 5.84m × 2.35m × 2.39m provide sufficient floor area for a compact commercial kitchen layout, service counter, storage shelving, and customer-facing serving point within the single 20ft footprint.

Electrical installation, plumbing, ventilation, extraction fans, and serving hatches or shutters are not confirmed as standard inclusions — all fit-out elements must be specified and priced at time of order. Confirm your full operational requirements — gas or electric cooking, extraction requirements, water supply and drainage, electrical load capacity, and serving configuration — with JK Shipping LLC before placing your order to ensure the build meets your local health department and commercial kitchen compliance requirements.

Delivery is available nationwide with an estimated lead time of 4 to 10 days from order confirmation — subject to build complexity and current production schedule. For guidance on food business registration and mobile or temporary food service compliance in the USA, refer to the FDA Food Code reference and confirm requirements with your local health authority before trading.

20ft Container Café — Dimensions

Standard Inclusions — 20ft Container Café Base Build

• One-trip 20ft × 8ft ISO shipping container base
• 8mm melamine-faced chipboard interior wall lining
• 28mm marine plywood structural floor
• 2mm vinyl floor covering over marine ply
• Exterior finish — specify colour and branding at order

Available Customisation — Specify at Order

• Serving hatches, roller shutters, or side openings
• Electrical installation — lighting, sockets, consumer unit
• Plumbing — water supply and drainage
• Extraction fans and ventilation
• Kitchen equipment provisions and countertop fit-out
• Exterior signage, cladding, and branding
• Interior shelving and storage
• Air conditioning or heating

What’s Not Included Unless Specified

• Electrical installation
• Plumbing and drainage
• Extraction and ventilation
• Catering equipment and appliances
• Mains electrical or water connection on site
• Food business registration or health department permits
• Site preparation or foundation

Best Use Cases for a 20ft Container Café

• Independent café, coffee, and beverage service operations
• Street food and market trading units
• Festival, event, and outdoor catering
• Pop-up restaurant or seasonal food business
• Bar and cocktail service unit for hospitality venues
• Branded food and beverage kiosks for commercial premises

Also available: 10ft Cladded Food & Drink Outlet Container, 8ft Custom Shipping Container Store, and 20ft Custom Container Conversion.

Every unit is inspected by JK Shipping LLC prior to dispatch.