Ice machine for a bowling alley (snack bar / lounge / league night)

A bowling alley is a snack-bar fountain, sometimes a lounge, and a league night or birthday party that empties the leftover before the next shift starts. Charts we opened do not print a “bowling alley,” “bowling center,” “lane,” or “bowler” pounds-per-day row. Count the ice each station actually uses. Do not invent a VenueIce lb-per-lane, and do not average a cup ounce with a cocktail 3 into a house “bowling lb.”

The sizing table has no bowling-alley cell. A staffed fountain that you have weighed uses the same ounce rows as a movie theater concession or a fast-food cup. A cocktail well with its own seat count stays on ice machine for a bar. A door-count nightclub stays on ice machine for a nightclub. An arena with suites and a training room stays on ice machine for a stadium. Bin math for the service window stays on ice bin sizing.

This is a planning page from published application factors and current directory sheets. It is not a dealer quote, not a review score, and not a health-code opinion. Check with your local health department before you treat a self-serve hopper, a cleaning interval, or a fryer-line install as allowed. Confirm electrical, plumbing, clearance, and sanitation with the people who inspect the building.

Who this is for

• Neighborhood bowling centers whose ice is a snack-bar fountain (soda, iced tea, and the large cup at the counter) plus, on some nights, a lounge that pours beer or cocktails.
• League nights when the first shift hits the counter together, and the leftover has to cover that wave. The lane count is not the unit.
• Birthday parties and lock-ins with a counted headcount, only when those guests are not already inside the cup line.
• Centers with a self-serve soda island where bowlers can reach the ice. That is a dispenser question, separate from a staff scoop behind the counter.

It is not a cinema show block. It is not a stadium concourse. It is not a nightclub door count. It is not a plated restaurant cover on every person who rented a pair of shoes. It is not a lb per lane.

Published factors — and the missing lane

These are dealer and buyer-guide rules of thumb, not a manufacturer warranty and not a lab measurement of your center. Pick one method per line. The sizing table has no bowling cell to average them into.

Separate lines — do not stack the same bowler

• Lanes are not the unit the charts print. A 24-lane house is not 24 of anything. The register is cups, lounge seats, and a counted party. A shoes-rented count is not a drink count.
• One cup method per station. Kitchen Spot or GoFoodservice ounces, or Atlantic QSR 0.5–1.0 lb per customer, or Ice Machine Sales concession 2 lb per customer. A second drink is a second cup. It is not a second person-factor on top of the first cup.
• A 16 oz cup is 8 oz of ice on both ounce tables. 8 ÷ 16 = 0.5 lb. A 20 oz cup is Kitchen Spot 10 oz and GoFoodservice’s 16–24 oz band 12 oz. Those are two readings. Pick one. Do not average 10 and 12.
• A self-serve island replaces the staffed ounce row for those people. Kitchen Spot 2 to 3 lb, or GoFoodservice self-serve 3 lb. It does not sit on 8 oz / 16 oz for the same person.
• The lounge is a seat line, and only for seats you did not already count as cups. Cocktail 3 lb, or beer-and-wine 1 lb when that is the room. Do not stack 3 on 1. Do not stack either one on a snack cup that bowler already bought. The rush-bin worksheet for a real cocktail well is the bar guide.
• The nightclub 2 lb row is a different chart. Ice Machine Sales’ sports concession 2 lb per customer is a stand. Their nightclub 2 lb per person is a door count, on the nightclub page, and their FAQ range there is 400–1,000+ lb per night. Do not drop that range on a 24-lane league.
• A party uses one guest method, and only for guests who are not already in the cups. GoFoodservice event-hall 2 lb, or Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb, or Atlantic 1–1.5 lb. A birthday package whose drinks were rung as fountain cups stays on the cup line. The 2 lb does not get a second pass.
• Plated covers replace cups for those guests. Kitchen Spot or Atlantic 1.5 lb, or GoFoodservice restaurant 2 lb, only when the cover was not already a counted drink.
• Bags are optional and usually zero. GoFoodservice 10 lb × bags if the center sells ice. A center that does not sell bags does not get a bag plant. This directory has no merchandiser SKU. We do not invent one. The bag worksheet, when you actually sell bags, is the convenience store page.
• One buffer, from the source you picked. Kitchen Spot’s 20% belongs on a Kitchen Spot row, once. GoFoodservice’s calculator 20% is already inside the quick-reference cells. It is not a second pass on an ounce cell. Atlantic’s 15–25% belongs on an Atlantic line, once. The 25–30% outdoor band belongs on a counter that is actually outside. Do not multiply 20% by 20%.
• One hot-room reading. Use the 90/70 column when the sheet has one. GoFoodservice’s 10–15% and Kitchen Spot’s 15% or more are for a mild-condition rating in a hot room. Do not subtract them from a 90/70 cell you already chose, and do not apply both.

Worked league night — snack bar and a beer lounge

Headcount and drink counts below are a planning assumption, not a turnstile reading and not a claim about any real center. One neighborhood house. 24 lanes, which is context and not a multiplier. One Wednesday league. No birthday package in this section. That day is later, and it is not inside these pounds.

Snack bar. 160 fountain drinks. The cup is 16 oz. Staff scoop behind the counter. Method: Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice per 16 oz drink.

160 × 8 oz = 1,280 oz. 1,280 ÷ 16 = 80 lb. Chart +20% → 96 lb.

Lounge. 20 seats, beer and wine, and these are not the 160 cups. Kitchen Spot 1 lb per person: 20 lb. +20% → 24 lb.

Two lines, each with Kitchen Spot’s 20% once:

96 + 24 = 120 lb.

The 120 is the buffered snack plus the buffered lounge. It is not 80 + 96, and it is not 96 + 24 + 20. Do not take GoFoodservice’s 10–15% hot-room sentence off 120. A snack alcove next to a fryer is why the model section uses 90/70 when the sheet has it.

What those other rows would do — do not add them

Each figure replaces the line it is aimed at.

Snack bar, instead of Kitchen Spot 80 / 96 lb:

• GoFoodservice’s 12–16 oz band is also 8 oz per cup → the same 80 lb. Their calculator 20% is not on that ounce cell.
• Atlantic QSR 0.5 lb on 160 drinks: 80 lb. 1.0 lb: 160 lb. Seasonal reserve 15–25% only if you chose Atlantic. On the 0.5 end that is 80 × 1.15 = 92 lb and 80 × 1.25 = 100 lb. On the 1.0 end it is 160 × 1.15 = 184 lb and 160 × 1.25 = 200 lb. One reserve. Not Kitchen Spot’s 20% as well.
• Ice Machine Sales concession 2 lb per customer: 160 × 2 = 320 lb if those 160 drinks are 160 customers. If the register says 100 customers bought the 160 drinks, the concession line is 100 × 2 = 200 lb, and 200 replaces 320. Neither number adds to the 80 lb ounce line.
• Restaurant 1.5 lb on the 160 drinks: 240 lb, or 288 lb with Kitchen Spot’s 20%. That is a plated-cover row. These 160 are cups.
• Self-serve 2 to 3 lb only if those people refill their own soda. It replaces the ounce line. It is not this staffed counter.

Lounge, instead of beer-and-wine 20 / 24 lb: cocktail 3 lb on the same 20 seats is 60 lb, or 72 lb with Kitchen Spot’s 20%. That 72 replaces 24 if the room pours cocktails. It does not sit on the 24. Atlantic’s bar line is the same about 3 lb per seat. Their nightclub label on that cell is still the 3 lb starting point, not Ice Machine Sales’ nightclub 2 lb door count.

Nightclub 2 lb on 160 “people,” or the nightclub FAQ 400–1,000+ lb, replaces this worksheet only when the building is the nightclub page’s building. A Wednesday league is not that night.

Bin versus the first league shift

A 24-hour rating is not a stack of cups when the 6:30 league walks in. Atlantic’s formula, as already used on ice bin sizing:

Bin capacity needed = ice used during the largest service window − ice produced during that window + opening safety stock

The hourly split is arithmetic. Harvest is cyclic.

Assumption for this window: 80 of the 160 snack drinks leave in the first hour. That is half the night’s cups, not a published attach rate. 80 × 8 oz ÷ 16 = 40 lb. Kitchen Spot’s 20% on that wave is 48 lb. The 48 replaces 40 if you size the window to the buffered cell. The 24 lb lounge is not inside this hour. The lounge section below is the overlap.

Manitowoc UYF-0190A on the directory page: 193 lb @ 70/50, 140 lb @ 90/70, 90 lb bin. A fryer alcove uses 90/70 when the sheet has it.

• 140 lb @ 90/70 covers the 96 lb snack day and the 120 lb day as make. The 193 lb cell is the mild rating.
• One hour at 140: 140 ÷ 24 ≈ 5.8 lb. A full 90 lb bin plus about 5.8 lb covers a 48 lb pull.
• Kitchen Spot’s 20% usable-loss reading: 90 × 0.80 = 72 lb stored. Plus about 5.8 lb ≈ 78 lb, which still covers 48.

If the 96 lb of cups and the 24 lb lounge leave in the same two hours, the pull is 120 lb. Two hours at 140: 140 ÷ 24 × 2 ≈ 11.7 lb. Nominal 90 plus about 11.7 ≈ 102 lb, which misses 120. After a 20% pile-up loss: 72 plus about 11.7 ≈ 84 lb, which also misses 120. That Wednesday is a modular head and a bin, or two cabinets whose windows you have actually separated on the clock.

Manitowoc UYF-0140A on the same directory family: 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin. 100 lb @ 90/70 covers the 24 lb beer lounge as a day’s make. It does not cover the 120 lb combined night. The 90 lb bin does not fix a head that makes 100 against a 120 lb day.

Saturday — open bowl, a cocktail lounge, and one party

Use this when the house is busier than league and a counted party is a second use. Planning assumption: the same 24-lane center. The party’s drinks are not inside the snack count, and the lounge seats are not inside either.

Snack bar. 240 fountain drinks. The cup is 20 oz. Kitchen Spot 10 oz ice per 20 oz drink.

240 × 10 oz = 2,400 oz. 2,400 ÷ 16 = 150 lb. Chart +20% → 180 lb.

GoFoodservice’s 16–24 oz band is 12 oz per cup: 240 × 12 ÷ 16 = 180 lb. Their calculator 20% is not on that ounce cell. The 180 replaces Kitchen Spot’s 150. It happens to equal Kitchen Spot’s buffered 180. Those are two readings. Do not add them, and do not put a second 20% on the GoFoodservice 180.

Lounge. 25 cocktail seats. Kitchen Spot 3 lb: 25 × 3 = 75 lb. +20% → 90 lb. Beer-and-wine 1 lb on the same 25 seats is 25 lb, or 30 lb with the 20%. The 30 replaces 90 if the room does not pour cocktails.

Party. 40 guests, hosted beverages. GoFoodservice Event Hall / Banquet: 40 × 2 = 80 lb. Their quick-reference shape already includes 20%: 40 × 2 × 1.20 = 96 lb. The printed neighbor is 100 → 240 lb. 40 is not a column. Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb plus their chart 20% is the same 96 lb. One of those 96s. Adding them is the same guests twice.

Atlantic 1 lb is 40 lb. 1.5 lb is 60 lb. A 15–25% reserve on 60 lb, only if you chose Atlantic, is 69–75 lb. The 25–30% band is their outdoor / event-venue reserve. An indoor party room does not get it unless you chose that band because the service is actually outside. That Atlantic figure replaces 96. It does not sit on it.

Three lines, Kitchen Spot on the cups and the lounge, GoFoodservice’s buffered event cell on the party:

180 + 90 + 96 = 366 lb.

The 366 is those three lines added. It is not 150 + 180, and it is not 180 + 366.

Two readings that drop a line, and they are not both the Saturday:

• The 40 guests only drank snack cups you already counted. Drop the 96. Snack plus cocktail lounge is 180 + 90 = 270 lb.
• The lounge is beer and wine, and the party is still a second use. 180 + 30 + 96 = 306 lb. The 306 replaces 366.

A cold plate, GoFoodservice 45%, belongs on the beverage calculation you actually chose, once, and only if that fountain has a cold plate. On the GoFoodservice 180 lb ounce cell: 180 × 1.45 = 261 lb, and 261 replaces 180 for the cups. It does not also get Kitchen Spot’s 20%, and it does not attach to the lounge or the party unless those lines run through the same cold plate. This page does not assume a cold plate.

Production against that Saturday

Manitowoc IYT0450A air-cooled half-dice, on the directory page: 490 lb @ 70/50, 378 lb @ 90/70. Head only.

• 378 lb @ 90/70 covers the 120 lb league night. It covers 270 and 306. It covers 366 by 12 lb. That is the exact-match warning: do not sell a head whose advertised capacity merely equals the day. Twelve pounds is not a surplus you can spend on a hotter alcove. The 490 lb cell is the mild rating.
• Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A is 320 lb @ 90/70 on the PDF the directory cites, and the directory flags a later reprint at 310. 320 misses 366. It covers 306 by 14 lb and 270 by 50 lb. Treat 90/70 as labeled if the sheet in your hands is the later one. 310 still misses 366, covers 270, and sits 4 lb over 306.
• Scotsman C0330MA-1 is 288 lb @ 90/70. 288 covers the 120 lb league. It covers 270 by 18 lb. It misses 306 and 366.
• Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ is approximately 556 lb on the directory page. 90/70 production is not on that file. 556 × 0.85 ≈ 473 lb if you apply Kitchen Spot’s 15% because the hot-room cell is missing. 473 covers 366. It is not a printed 90/70 cell. Do not treat 556 as the July number.

A Saturday whose party is a plated dinner in a rented room, with its own kitchen, is the banquet hall page. Those pounds are not this snack head. A stadium concession customer, a VIP suite, and a training room stay on the stadium page. A bowler is not all three.

Bin against the Saturday open

Assumption: the first two hours take half of the buffered snack cups (90 lb of the 180) and the cocktail lounge’s 90 lb. The party’s 96 lb is a later seating. It is not inside this window. The pull is 180 lb.

Two hours at 378: 378 ÷ 24 × 2 = 31.5 lb. Shortfall: 180 − 31.5 = 148.5 lb. Same shape as Atlantic’s example, opening stock equal to that window’s make: the usable target is the 180 lb pull.

The D-570 storage figure used here is 543 lb, as cited on the campground page from the iT0450 PDF (footer 6478 01/18). This page did not re-measure that PDF. Nominal 543 covers 180. After a 20% pile-up loss: 543 × 0.80 = 434.4 lb, about 434 lb, which still covers 180.

If the snack, the lounge, and the party leave in the same two hours, the pull is 366 lb. Make during the window is still about 31.5 lb. A 543 lb sticker covers 366 if every pound scoops. After the 20% pile-up reading, about 434 lb still covers 366, with 68 lb of that arithmetic left. A bridged pile can miss it. Atlantic’s warning applies: do not treat nominal storage as perfectly scoopable. One D-570 does not take two 30″ heads. This page does not invent a double-wide bin.

Manitowoc RNP0320A is 308 / 236 lb nugget, head only. The directory file records a D-420 at 310 lb (22″ × 34″ × 76″ including 6″ legs) on that sheet. 236 lb @ 90/70 covers the 180 lb snack day and misses 270, 306, and 366. A full 310 lb bin covers the 180 lb two-hour window if it starts full. 310 × 0.80 = 248 lb usable, which also covers 180 and misses a 366 lb overlap. Nugget is the chewable fountain. It is not the slow cube a cocktail lounge is buying. Those are two machines when the center wants both. See cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake and best commercial nugget ice machine.

Cube, dispenser, and who scoops

Fountain cups and a cocktail well do not have to be the same ice. Two forms are two machines.

Scotsman HID525 on the directory page: 500 lb @ 70/50, 380 lb @ 90/70, 25 lb hopper. 380 covers a 366 lb day as make and misses the point of a hopper: two hours at 380 is about 32 lb of arithmetic make. Hopper 25 plus about 32 ≈ 57 lb, which covers the Wednesday 48 lb wave if the machine is running. It does not hold the Saturday 180 lb window. A self-serve island that stays ahead only while the head keeps harvesting is the case. A league that wants 180 lb on hand at 6:30 is a bin.

Hoshizaki C-80BAK is approximately 92 lb, bin 27 lb. 90/70 production is not on that file. If you apply Kitchen Spot’s 15% because the hot-room cell is missing: 92 × 0.85 ≈ 78 lb. That is arithmetic, not a printed 90/70 cell. The 27 lb bin misses a 48 lb league wave. It is a chewable cabinet for a small well, not the Saturday snack.

Ice-O-Matic GEM0450A is 464 / 354 lb air-cooled pearl on the directory page. Depth, height, voltage, and amps were not extracted on that file. 354 lb @ 90/70 covers 270 and 306 and misses 366 by 12 lb. Head only. Read the drawing before you treat it as a countertop dispenser.

Form factor

276 lb in that table is the Saturday snack 180 plus the party 96, with the 90 lb cocktail lounge on a different head. 180 + 96 = 276. IYT0450A at 378 covers 276 by 102 lb. That split is how the thin 366 margin goes away: the lounge is no longer on the snack head. It is not a third buffer.

Cooling is a mechanical choice, not a lane factor. See air-cooled vs water-cooled and undercounter vs modular vs countertop. Air-cooled is the default: potable ice-making water only, and the heat stays in the room. Water-cooled spends condenser water. GoFoodservice notes that some municipalities restrict water-cooled equipment. Do not pick water-cooled to hide a hot closet. A remote condenser moves heat outside. The head stays indoors, on the line set that manual allows. This directory does not list a remote bowling-center SKU. See remote condenser vs self-contained.

Current heads and cabinets

Figures are directory pages. Street prices omitted. No new model file was added for this guide. A July snack alcove uses 90/70 when the file has it.

Two amp readings on KM-81BAK, as already recorded on the golf course page from a 2026-10-26 open: the product page and the color spec print 2.4 A, and a text extraction of the family instruction manual printed 8.4 A on the KM-81BAK row. This page did not re-open that manual. We do not average 2.4 and 8.4. The directory records 2.4 A. Read the data plate.

Hoshizaki IM-50BAA-Q is approximately 50 lb on the directory page, with no 70/50 versus 90/70 split, and a 36 lb bin. Sphere ice at that make is not a league-night fountain.

Where it sits: snack alcove, drain, air

The usual miss is a cord machine on a shared outlet behind the soda, a fryer or pizza oven heating the same hole, a louver someone boxed in, and a gravity drain that has to go uphill. Read the sheet before the bid. The checklist is the installation page. This page does not reprint every clearance.

• Heat. Manufacturer “up to” numbers are a 70°F air / 50°F water comparison. Use the 90/70 column when the sheet has one. Kitchen Spot’s 15% or more applies when you only have the mild cell and the room is about 90° with about 70° water. GoFoodservice’s 10–15% is the same kind of sentence. One of them, and not on top of a 90/70 cell.
• Air. Air-cooled cabinets dump heat into that hole. Product-page heat rejection, as recorded on the golf course page from HTML opened 2026-10-26: KM-81 1,800 BTU/h, KM-161 2,800 BTU/h, KM-520 7,000 BTU/h. This page did not re-open those pages. The movie theater page records the NEO family sheet at 2,150 average / 2,600 peak BTU/h. This page did not re-open that PDF. Those BTUs are room load. A boxed-in louver makes the 90/70 column optimistic.
• Range is not a production cell. KM-81 and KM-161 product pages, as recorded on that golf-course open: air 45–100°F. A fryer alcove above 100°F is outside that sheet. NEO and iT0450 air tops out at 110°F on the campground citations of those PDFs. The top of a range is not the 70/50 rating. This page did not re-measure those PDFs.
• Power. The undercounters in the table are 115 V cord-and-plug. KM-520MAJ is hardwired 115 V. IYT0450A and C0330MA-1: confirm cord versus hardwire on the current sheet. CIM0430A amps are not on the directory file; the installation page records 11.0 A minimum circuit and a 15 A fuse from the Webstaurant PDF it cites. Two cabinets plus a fountain on one alcove circuit is an electrician question.
• Drain. Melt water is not optional. Fitting size is the fitting on the cabinet you bought. The golf-course page already records that the KM-81 and KM-161 product pages list a 3/4″ FPT outlet and the family manual’s water-supply notice says 1/2″ FPT. This page did not re-extract that manual. We do not average the two outlets. A top kit is a separate part when the head is narrower than the bin. GoFoodservice’s uncovered-gap sentence is the reason. We did not open a kit table today.
• Water and filter. An ice-machine cartridge belongs on the ice-maker inlet, not on the soda gun. Pressure, hardness, and the Hoshizaki cartridge figures stay on filters and descalers. A filter is not a skipped descale, and the filters page’s manufacturer line is that these cartridges are not a sterilizer. Taste complaints stay on cloudy or bad-tasting ice.
• Who touches it. Staff behind the snack counter can scoop a bin. Bowlers at a self-serve island should not. That split is dispenser vs bin. Check with your local health department. This page does not decide whether a given hopper is allowed in that lobby.

Maintenance

The published clean interval is a calendar on that model’s manual. A dark Monday does not pause it, and a league schedule does not erase it. Intervals already collected on how to clean stay there: Manitowoc cubers at least every six months; Hoshizaki KM cubers at least once a year, more often in some water conditions; Scotsman lines that page already separates. We do not average those into a bowling-alley interval.

A snack line next to a fryer is the cleaning page’s grease, sugar, and flour note, not a new number of months. Follow the shorter end of that manual when the sheet says bad water or greasy air needs it more often. Slime and mold symptoms stay on slime and mold. This page is not a service recipe.

Check with your local health department before you treat a hopper, a scoop, or a cleaning interval as allowed.

What this page is not

• Not a lb-per-lane chart. The charts we opened do not have one. The units are cups, lounge seats, and a counted party.
• Not a movie theater. Show-block fountain math overlaps. The page for that lobby is ice machine for a movie theater.
• Not a stadium. Concession 2 lb per customer on the sports chart is a stand factor you may choose instead of ounces. Suites, a training room, and a 1,000–2,000 lb event-day FAQ stay on ice machine for a stadium.
• Not a nightclub. Ice Machine Sales’ 2 lb per person nightclub row, and the 400–1,000+ lb FAQ, stay on ice machine for a nightclub.
• Not a cocktail bar used alone. 3 lb per seat and beer-and-wine 1 lb stay on ice machine for a bar when that well is the whole building.
• Not a restaurant cover count. 1.5 lb and GoFoodservice 2 lb per person stay off the shoe rental. A cover you did not already count as a cup can use the restaurant line.
• Not a banquet hall. A plated party in a rented room stays on ice machine for a banquet hall.
• Not a c-store bag plant. 10 lb × bags only if you sell bags. The page for that rack is ice machine for a convenience store.
• Not a price list. Street prices omitted.
• Not a review. No scores and no borrowed stories about alleys.
• Not a health-code letter. Check with your local health department.

Sources

1. The Kitchen Spot, Commercial Ice Machine Sizes — chart header add 20%; restaurant 1.5 lb; self-service 2 to 3 lb; cocktail 3 lb; beer and wine 1 lb; extended events 2 lb; fountain ounces including 8 oz / 16 oz and 10 oz / 20 oz; hot-room 15% or more; size from peak days; bin pile holds 10–20% less than the printed pounds. No bowling, lane, or bowler row (retrieved 2026-10-27).
2. GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — quick-service cups 5 / 8 / 12 oz; packaged ice 10 lbs × bags; restaurant 2 lbs per person; cocktail 3 lbs per seat; self-serve 3 lbs per person; Event Hall / Banquet 2 lbs per person; quick-reference cells already include 20% (100 → 240 lb on the event row, 100 → 360 lb on self-serve); cold plates 45% more; actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot rooms; dispensers where the public can reach the ice; modular 250–2,500 lb/day; undercounter 50–500 lb/day; some municipalities restrict water-cooled equipment. No bowling row. Header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026 (retrieved 2026-10-27). A price FAQ on that page is omitted.
3. Atlantic Store Equipment, Commercial Ice Machine Sizing Guide — full-service about 1.5 lb per customer; quick-service 0.5–1.0 lb per customer; bar or nightclub about 3 lb per seat; catering or banquet 1–1.5 lb per attendee; reserves 15–25% and 25–30%; bin formula. No bowling row. Dated Jul 15, 2026 (retrieved 2026-10-27).
4. Ice Machine Sales, Sports & Entertainment Ice Machines — concession stands 2 lbs per customer; FAQ repeats about 2 lbs per customer served; VIP suites 3 lbs per guest; athletic training 10 lbs per athlete; fitness 1 lb per member; countertop dispensers 100–500 lb/day; modular 500–2,000+ lb/day; mid-size arena 1,000–2,000 lb per event day. No bowling-alley or lane row (retrieved 2026-10-27).
5. Ice Machine Sales’ nightclub 2 lb per person row and the 400–1,000+ lb FAQ are the cells already quoted on the nightclub page (opened 2026-09-29). This page did not re-open that bar-and-nightclub chart. The sports concession 2 lb and the nightclub 2 lb are the same number on two charts. The units differ. We do not treat them as one bowling factor.
6. Directory pages for the heads in the table: UYF-0190A 193 / 140 lb, 90 lb bin; UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin; KM-81BAK 98 / 76 lb, 38 lb bin, 2.4 A; KM-161BAK up to 156 lb, 78 lb bin, no 90/70 cell; C-80BAK approximately 92 lb, 27 lb bin, no 90/70 cell; HID525 500 / 380 lb, 25 lb hopper; RNP0320A 308 / 236 lb, D-420 310 lb; GEM0450A 464 / 354 lb, electrical not extracted; IYT0450A 490 / 378 lb; KM-520MAJ approximately 556 lb, no 90/70 cell; CIM0430A 435 / 320 lb with a later reprint flagged at 310; C0330MA-1 400 / 288 lb; IM-50BAA-Q approximately 50 lb, no condition split. D-570 543 lb, KM heat-rejection figures, and the KM-81 2.4 A / 8.4 A note are the campground and golf course citations, not a new measurement on 2026-10-27.
7. Existing VenueIce pages for the install and care limits this article does not reprint: how to size, ice bin sizing, bar, nightclub, movie theater, stadium, installation, filters and descalers, how to clean, dispenser vs bin.

If two sheets disagree, we say so and prefer the latest OEM page or PDF. On KM-81, the directory records 2.4 A; the golf-course page records a manual extraction at 8.4 A. On KM-161, C-80, and KM-520, the directory file does not print 90/70 production. On CIM0430A, the directory flags 320 and 310 at 90/70. On a 20 oz cup, Kitchen Spot prints 10 oz of ice and GoFoodservice’s 16–24 oz band prints 12 oz. We do not average those pairs.