Custom Aguas Frescas Trailers
Cold-prep aguas frescas and fruteria trailers built in Sacramento and delivered statewide, carrying the HCD insignia so your county sees a unit ready for its health permit.
An aguas frescas trailer is its own kind of build, and 916 Concession treats it that way. There is no hot cook line and no exhaust hood here. The whole rig is built cold around a wall of vitroleros, a row of high-power blenders for mangonadas and chamoyadas, an ice shaver for raspados, and refrigerated prep space for cut watermelon, mango, and pineapple. Most buyers come to us as first-time food entrepreneurs working flea markets, swap meets, parks, soccer fields, and quinceaneras, and they need a unit that pours fast and stays cold all day. We carry the build, the HCD insignia, county-ready blueprints, and the DMV side so you can focus on your horchata, your jamaica, and your toppings rail.
The heart of the rig is the aguas frescas wall, built around 3 to 7 gallon clear food-grade vitroleros or refrigerated cold-wall dispensers for horchata, jamaica, sandia, and tamarindo. Alongside it we set high-power commercial blenders for mangonadas, chamoyadas, and smoothies, plus an ice shaver or crusher for raspados and chamoyadas. Cold holding comes from reach-in or under-counter refrigeration paired with a refrigerated prep table for cut fruit, with cold prep tables and a dedicated cutting and squeeze station for fruit cups con chile y limon, tostilocos, and esquites. A chamoy and Tajin topping rail keeps your finishes within reach, and ice bins keep the whole line cold. Plumbing is a three-compartment sink for washing, rinsing, and sanitizing plus a separate handwash sink, with no hot cook line, no fryer, and no hood since everything is cold prep.
Because this trailer never stops refrigerating and runs several blenders and an ice shaver at once, electrical load is what drives the spec. We size a generous panel to carry simultaneous blender and ice-shaver draw on top of constant fridge and dispenser load, so the unit does not brown out at the busiest part of a swap-meet afternoon. The build is set for shore power and is generator-capable for parks, soccer fields, and lots with no hookup. On the water side, we install standard fresh-water and grey-water tanks plus a water heater feeding the three-compartment and handwash sinks, sized so you can pour, prep, and wash through a full day without running dry or overfilling grey.
Why an aguas frescas trailer is a market of its own
Demand for aguas frescas, mangonadas, fruit cups, and tostilocos runs strong across California, especially in Hispanic communities where these stands anchor every swap meet and soccer Sunday. What surprises most buyers is how few builders actually understand the layout. Plenty of shops can weld a taco trailer with a hood and call it a day. A fruteria or mangonada trailer is the opposite problem: no flame, no grease, but constant refrigeration and a beverage wall that has to stay cold and pour clean from morning to close. 916 Concession builds this configuration on purpose. We know the vitrolero spacing, the blender power draw, and the topping-rail reach that make a shift move fast, so you get a trailer designed around horchata and chamoy, not a hot kitchen with the stove left out.
Building to your menu and your size
Tell us the menu and we lay the unit out around it. A horchata-and-jamaica wall needs different dispenser real estate than a mangonada-and-raspado station that lives or dies on blender and ice-shaver placement. We custom build any size, and the 7x14 is our most-ordered shell because it fits a full aguas frescas wall, a blender and ice-shaver station, a cut-fruit prep table, and a chamoy and Tajin topping rail without crowding the person working it. Interiors are finished in county-approved cleanable cladding that wipes down after a sticky day. If you run heavier on fruit cups and tostilocos, we shift counter space toward the cutting and squeeze station. The point is one yard handling the whole build to your spec, not a stock box you have to make work.
Two approvals: the insignia is ours, the health permit is yours
There are two separate approvals on a concession trailer and it helps to keep them straight. The first is the HCD insignia under Title 25, which certifies the unit itself: the build, the plumbing, the electrical, the construction. That is 916 Concession's responsibility, and we deliver the trailer carrying its insignia. The second is your county health permit, which is the customer's step. That is between you and your local environmental health department, and it covers how you operate, your menu, your water and waste handling, and your commissary. We set you up to pass it by building to spec and providing county-ready compliance blueprints, but the health permit application is yours to file. Knowing which approval belongs to whom up front keeps your opening on schedule.
Timeline, registration, and delivery
A typical aguas frescas build runs about six weeks, though that figure is inspection-dependent and we are honest about it when a county schedule or a revision moves the date. On the road side, 916 Concession handles your California DMV registration. CA issues temporary tags first and then mails the permanent plates, so you can legally tow and work while the plates are in transit, and we manage both stages so you skip the DMV counter. When the unit is done, we coordinate delivery anywhere in California through our in-house transport, run by the dedicated crew we work with build after build rather than a load-board hauler. Financing is available through third-party lenders we can point you to; we do not quote rates, since those depend on the lender and your situation.
Build your Aguas Frescas Trailer
Tell us your menu and timeline. 916 Concession builds the unit, sets the California HCD insignia, and provides the county-ready blueprints.
Prefer to talk? Call 7758951064.