Trusted by brands like 7-Eleven, Van Houtte, and Mother Parkers, Cart-King has built mobile café units for over 20 years. Let us help your business launch fast, serve at scale and grow revenue.
Choose the cart that fits your venue:
Push Cart | Modular Cart | Dual Kiosk | Quad Kiosk
Compact and easy to move, built for small business owners launching fast at local venues.
Features include:
- Flip up, food-safe counter top
- Locking cabinet in a steel base
- Large wheels for easy movement
- Best for streets or pop-up mobile vending
Only $3999 - In stock
Spacious and barista-ready, built for busy service areas like campuses and transit hubs.
Features include:
- Larger, food-safe countertop
- Locking cabinets in base
- Removable canopy
- Best for smooth, indoor surfaces
From $3999 - In stock
Do you need something larger? These specialty coffee carts are the ideal vending solution for growing businesses and even national brands. They can meet not only the requirements of a high-traffic mobile café, but also the extra requirements of a specialty coffee service. For example, Ampersand Coffee uses our Dual Coffee Kiosk with a fully automated coffee robot to sell their signature blends to travellers.
A two-station portable stand built for high-volume coffee service in busy public venues.
Features include:
- Spacious countertops for espresso and grinder setups
- Locking base cabinets for secure, organized storage
- Welded steel frame with NSF-approved surfaces
- Best for office towers, campuses, or large event spaces
Only $7998 - In stock
A four-station serving kiosk designed for fast-paced, high-volume environments with steady customer flow.
Features include:
- Four-bar design supports simultaneous barista operation
- Modular counters and pop-off canopies for easy setup
- Food-safe metal construction built for high-volume use
- Best for airports, stadiums, or large campuses
Only $15996 - In stock
Customizing our mobile coffee carts to make them stand out from the crowd is easy! These models start off in a bare, powder-coated finish. You can customize it with our optional LED lighting or a vinyl graphics wrap.
Our commercial carts offer ample space to showcase your brand and image. A custom-printed graphics wrap is the most effective way of presenting your message. With our marketing and coffee experience, we can help you brand the cart with your message, logos and colors. Learn how it works.
Add an espresso kit to provide the quality water necessary for a premium coffee while you're on the move. Give increased visibility with LED lighting, drawing attention to your products and making them stand out. Secure your inventory and equipment with a zip-down security cover.
Custom vinyl graphics
from $899
LED Lighting
from $299
Zip-down cover
$599 each
Espresso Kit
$599 each
Cart-King Intl is an expert in the design and manufacture of custom coffee carts. We have developed that expertise designing and manufacturing many different portable solutions for indoor and outdoor applications.
We invite you to browse through some of our many commercial carts that we have built for restaurant chains, independent coffee vendors, hotels and resorts all across the United States.
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February 17, 2014 By Cart King in Coffee Carts
Mall Coffee Kiosk
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April 22, 2013 By Cart King in $20,001-30,000, Coffee Carts, Coffee Kiosks
Breakdown Coffee Kiosk
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Hot Beverage Kiosks
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Container-style coffee kiosks
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June 20, 2012 By Cart King in $20,001-30,000, Coffee Carts, Coffee Kiosks
Coffee Service Kiosk
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By Cart King in $1-10,000, Coffee Carts
Espresso Carts
One thing is for certain, it won't be a question of whether mobile java vending will pay for itself or whether there's any good spots to set up a pop-up café. There's no shortage of good locations to start a coffee business, just like there's no shortage of customers. Indoor shopping malls, gyms, food courts, parks and any outdoor venue with foot traffic will be excellent locations to sell espresso, artful lattes, cappuccino or a nice, cold brew.
However, there is a lot to consider when looking at any coffee carts for sale. Let's get into the details of how Cart-King's products can help you achieve your mobile coffee business dreams.
We know that reliable, compliant equipment is essential for your success. That’s why we build all our coffee carts, kiosks, and sinks with commercial-grade materials and smart designs. They’re in stock and ready to ship, so you can get up and running faster.
Robust
Sturdy platforms on heavy-duty, industrial locking castors for ease of mobility.
Compliant
Food-safe countertops and surfaces that meet health department regulations.
Flexible
Fully adjustable shelving for a flexible arrangement of product or equipment placement.
Portable
Powder-coated steel and easily removable canopies for light-weight portability.
The question "how much money can I make" is the first question on most entrepreneurial baristas' minds. The answer is that mobile carts can be excellent revenue generators. A Cart-King coffee cart is relatively low cost and is sure to pay for itself. Indeed, after expenses it is possible to generate between $30,000 and $90,000 USD in profits annually. A cup of coffee is roughly 75% profit. A more expensive cold brew or artistic latte can be as high as 90%.
Why choose a coffee cart over a café?
Opening a brick-and-mortar coffee shop can cost over $1,000,000 USD, with ongoing leases, wages, and franchise fees that eat into profits. In contrast, a commercial coffee cart has a low startup cost and lets you move to the best locations for sales. Your only ongoing costs are for coffee, pastries, and licensing.
With a coffee cart, you’re not waiting for customers to come to you. You go to them. That’s why mobile vending is such a powerful model for baristas and cafe owners who want to grow their businesses faster.
Go where coffee shops can't
In order to effectively capitalize on opportunities and gaps left by brick-and-mortar cafes, you need to be able to easily move into those prime vending locations. Those prime locations include high-traffic venues such as festivals, food and shopping markets, and transit terminals. Finding a few prime locations and delivering a top-notch coffee experience with latte art is an excellent recipe for generating loyal followers and consistent sales.
Of course you are not limited to that vending business model. There are different models you can try with our vendors, such as these three examples:
- Green Beans Coffee Co has used our Quad Coffee Kiosks in international airports. Talk about heavy traffic and high sales volumes!
- Mother Parkers promoted their bean roasting with 350 units of our Modular Coffee Cart in grocery stores. There's an opportunity with a captive, receptive audience that is already there with the purpose of shopping.
- The University of Massachusetts placed one of our Quad Coffee Kiosks in the atrium at their Lowell campus. Thousands of hungry and thirsty on-the-go students and faculty pass by it for takeaway coffees and snacks every day.
Cart-King coffee carts give the benefits of a flexible, robust, and customizable low risk opportunity with high return potential for entrepreneurial barristas and national bean distributors alike. With our carts and expertise, combined with your blends and business ideas, you can easily start a very profitable mobile coffee business or expand your brand presence.
When Mother Parkers, the largest OEM wholesaler of roasted coffee beans in North America, partnered with Winn Dixie grocery stores, they trusted Cart-King coffee carts for a large-scale mobile cart rollout.
Cart-King designed a unique coffee cart configuration that supported hot coffee service while promoting retail coffee products to a captive, ready-to-buy consumer. Each unit had built-in refrigerators, sinks, an eye-catching metal and glass canopy structure and hi-key lighting.
With all of us working together, we customized each cart with branding and colors which suited both Mother Parkers' coffee products and Winn Dixie's in-store look and feel.
After a prototype unit and custom packaging design was delivered and approved, Cart-King manufactured and delivered over 350 commercial coffee carts, on time and within budget.
You can trust us to help you get a quality Cart-King coffee cart that will be custom-tailored to your business and brand. Whether it's 1 cart or 350, your business matters to us and we're here to help you get your sales rolling.
Whether you’re just starting out or expanding nationally, our carts are used by global franchises, local vendors, and industry innovators to brew exceptional coffees and build brand presence. Talk to our team about what’s worked for others, and what we can build for you.
Green Beans Coffee Co
Green Beans using a Quad Coffee Kiosk at the San Francisco International Airport.
University of Massachusetts
UMass using a Quad Coffee Kiosk as a portable café in their atrium.
Ampersand Coffee
Ampersand Coffee using a Dual Coffee Kiosk at Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
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