Custom Boba Trailers
Commercial-grade boba and bubble tea trailers built in Sacramento, HCD-insignia certified, and ready for your county health permit anywhere in California.
Boba moves fast, and your trailer has to keep up. A real bubble tea build is not a coffee cart with a different sign on it. You are brewing tea in volume, cooking and holding tapioca pearls, portioning syrup, shaking foam, blending slushes, and sealing hundreds of cups an hour while three or four fridges hold your milk and toppings cold. 916 Concession builds boba trailers around that exact workflow. We fabricate the unit, wire and plumb it to carry the load, line it in county-approved cleanable cladding, and pull the California HCD insignia under Title 25 so the unit itself is certified. You bring the menu and the spot you want to park. We hand you a trailer that is ready to go in front of your county for the health permit.
A working boba trailer is dense with equipment. Expect commercial high-volume tea brewers or percolators for large-batch tea extraction, a tapioca pearl cooker paired with an insulated pearl warmer to hold cooked boba at serving temperature, and an automatic fructose or syrup dispenser that portions sweetness consistently drink to drink. The cup sealing machine applies plastic film at roughly 450 cups an hour, and a cocktail or foam shaker machine handles the shaken drinks. You will also run blenders for blended and slush drinks, plus an ice maker or ice well. Cold holding is significant: reach-in or under-counter refrigeration for milk, half-and-half, and topping and jelly storage. Round that out with prep counters, the three-compartment sink, a separate handwash sink, and a water heater. We size and position every piece during layout.
Power is the first thing that catches new boba owners off guard. The cup sealer draws around 400 watts and the fructose dispenser pulls roughly 280 to 330 watts, and those run on top of the brewers, blenders, ice maker, and multiple refrigerators all working at the same time. That concurrent load is why we plan for a 50-amp or larger panel, fed by either a generator or shore power depending on where you set up. On the plumbing side, fresh water feeds both the handwash sink and the three-compartment sink through a water heater so you always have hot water on hand. Because code requires grey-water capacity to exceed your fresh-water capacity, we fit a larger grey tank than fresh. We balance the whole system during the build so your equipment never starves for power or water mid-service.
The boba market and who is buying these trailers
Bubble tea is one of the few food categories where the customer base is growing faster than the places to buy it. California runs the trend young: college campuses, downtown lunch crowds, weekend festivals, farmers markets, county fairs, and pop-ups all draw lines for milk tea and fruit tea that a brick-and-mortar shop can never chase. A trailer lets you follow that demand instead of waiting for it. We see first-time owners launching at a single campus or market, and we see established shops adding a mobile unit to cover events their storefront cannot reach. Either way the play is the same: low overhead, a menu people already want, and the freedom to park where the crowd already is. The builder field for dedicated boba units is still thin, so a clean, certified trailer puts you ahead of the cart competition on day one.
Building to your menu and picking a size
Your menu decides the build, not the other way around. Milk teas and fruit teas need brewing capacity and cold storage. Slushes need blenders and ice. Toppings like tapioca boba and popping or fruit jellies need a cooker, a warmer, and cold holding. Tell us what you are pouring and we lay out the line so prep, sealing, and the service window all flow in one direction with no backtracking. On size, 916 Concession builds any footprint. A compact 8-foot trailer is a common and affordable entry point for a focused menu and a one or two person crew. The 7x14 is our most-ordered shell because it gives most boba operators room for full equipment, real prep counter, and a second worker without feeling tight. If you want more line or a bigger topping bar, we scale it up. Nothing here is a fixed template.
Two approvals: the insignia we pull versus the health permit you pull
There are two separate sign-offs and it matters that you know which is whose. The first is the California HCD insignia under Title 25. That certifies the unit, meaning the trailer build, the plumbing, the electrical, and the construction itself. 916 Concession handles that one for you. The second is your county health permit, which covers you as the operator running food service in that jurisdiction. That step belongs to you, because every county sets its own terms and your menu and location are yours to declare. What we do is build the trailer to pass: county-approved cleanable cladding on the interior, a three-compartment sink for washing, a separate handwash sink, and the water system sized to match. We also provide county-ready blueprints so when you sit down with your health department, you are handing them a documented, compliant unit instead of guessing.
Timeline, registration, and getting it to you
A typical boba trailer runs about six weeks to build, though that depends on inspection scheduling and how custom your equipment package gets. We keep you posted at each stage rather than going quiet. When the build is done, 916 Concession handles California DMV registration. In California you receive temporary tags first, then your permanent plates arrive by mail, and we manage both ends so you are not making the trip yourself. For delivery we use in-house transport, the same crew we run with on every build, so your trailer arrives the way it left the yard. Financing is available through third-party lenders we work with; we can point you in the right direction, though terms and rates come from the lender, not from us.
Build your Boba Trailer
Tell us your menu and timeline. 916 Concession builds the unit, sets the California HCD insignia, and provides the county-ready blueprints.
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