Ice machine for a campground (RV park / camp store)

A campground, RV park, or camp store is a bagged-ice buyer on the days the coolers go out, and sometimes a pavilion buyer on the night the building hosts a crowd. The sizing table does not have a campground row. Kitchen Spot’s application chart and KaTom’s quick-reference table do not print “campground,” “RV park,” “campsite,” or a lb-per-site cell. The worksheet is the bag you sell, counted on the peak summer weekend, plus a separate line for any ice that is not a bag.

Bagged ice for boat coolers at a marina is the marina page, on the Specialty Marine 3.5 lb per person row plus a separate 10 lb × bags line. A guest floor that fills hotel buckets is the hotel 5 lb per room row. A plated dinner in a rented hall is the banquet hall or the wedding venue. A gas-station fountain plus a door merchandiser is the convenience store. A cart with a generator and a tank is the food truck. This page is the shore building the campground owns: camp store, check-in counter, and a pavilion that actually serves ice.

This is a planning page from published application factors and current OEM 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 bagged ice, a holding freezer, or a cleaning interval as allowed. Confirm electrical, plumbing, clearance, and sanitation with the people who inspect the building.

Who this is for

• Campground and RV-park owners who sell ice to campers for coolers, from a camp store or a check-in counter, including a peak July weekend.
• Camp stores that also pour fountain drinks. Cups are a second line.
• Parks with a pavilion or event lawn that serves drinks on a counted headcount. That headcount is a third line.
• Seasonal operations that run hard from late spring through early fall and then shut a machine down in an unheated or semi-conditioned room.
• Parks on a well, where inlet pressure, hardness, and whether the water is ice-making water come before the brand.

It is not a marina ship store sized at 3.5 lb per person. It is not a hotel floor at 5 lb per room. It is not a country-club campus. It is not a c-store whose published 20–70 summer bag band you copy without counting your own door. A site count with no bag count is not a machine size.

Published factors — and the missing campsite row

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

Sites, bags, cups, and a pavilion — do not stack them

• One bag weight. GoFoodservice’s 10 lb cell is the rack bag when the bag is 10 lb. Be There’s 7 lb and about 20 lb replace 10 when that is the bag you sell. KaTom’s rule is the weight the bag holds, times the count. 40 bags × 10 lb and 40 bags × 7 lb are two readings of two racks. They are not added.
• One buffer, on the line you picked. KaTom’s 20% belongs on a KaTom estimate, once. Kitchen Spot’s 20% belongs on a Kitchen Spot chart row (fountain ounces, extended events), once. Do not put both on a GoFoodservice 10 × bags product, and do not multiply 20% by 20%.
• Sites are not the unit the charts print. Eighty occupied pads are not eighty hotel rooms, not eighty Specialty Marine guests, and not eighty banquet attendees. The only site arithmetic that stays honest is a register: bags you sold, divided by occupied sites that day, then applied to a future peak occupancy you are willing to defend. The quotient is your count. It is not a VenueIce lb-per-site.
• Cups replace a person count for those drinks. A fountain ounce row is the soda well. It does not sit on a guest already counted at 2 lb, and it does not replace the bag that guest bought for a cooler.
• A pavilion headcount is attendees, not pads. GoFoodservice event-hall 2 lb, or KaTom event-hall 2 lb, or Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb. One of those. A camper who only bought a bag is not an attendee. A camper who bought a bag and drinks pavilion ice is two lines, because the uses differ. That is the same split the marina page uses for a drinker who also buys a cooler bag.
• The c-store 20–70 band is not your Saturday. It is Ice Machine Sales’ published summer range for convenience stores. A camp store that sold 40 bags does not become a 70-bag store because 40 sits inside 20–70. Count the door.
• A closed winter is not their 10–30 winter band. That band is ice they say a c-store still sells. A park that locks the store and shuts the machine has a shutdown, below. A park that stays open and sells ice in January uses the bags it sells, not a copied winter band.

Worked peak Saturday — camp-store bags

Headcount and bag counts below are a planning assumption, not a turnstile reading and not a claim about any real park. One camp store. One busy Saturday in July. 80 sites occupied. The register in this assumption sold 40 bags. The bag on the rack is 10 lb. No pavilion in this section. No fountain in this section. Those lines are later, and they are not inside these pounds.

40 × 10 = 400 lb on the GoFoodservice / KaTom weight × bags line.

KaTom’s page says add 20% for a busy day. 400 × 1.20 = 480 lb.

The 480 replaces 400 if you chose KaTom’s buffer. It is not 400 + 480. Kitchen Spot’s chart has no bag cell, so their 20% does not get a second pass. 400 × 1.20 × 1.20 = 576 lb is the mistake.

Forty bags on eighty occupied sites is 40 ÷ 80 = 0.5 bags per occupied site that Saturday. The 0.5 is this assumption divided by itself. It is not a chart. A later weekend you honestly expect 100 occupied sites, at the same rate, is 100 × 0.5 = 50 bags. Fifty × 10 lb = 500 lb, and KaTom’s 20% once is 600 lb. That 600 replaces 480 because the bag count changed. It does not sit on top of 480. If you never wrote down bags per occupied site, you do not have this step. You have a site count, and a site count is not a machine.

The same 40 bags in 7 lb bags, which Be There names as a usual retail weight: 40 × 7 = 280 lb. KaTom +20% → 336 lb. That 280 / 336 replaces 400 / 480. A 20 lb bag on the same count is 40 × 20 = 800 lb, then +20% → 960 lb. That replaces the 10 lb reading. Do not add 7 lb and 10 lb bags you do not sell.

Ice Machine Sales’ summer 70-bag end, if someone pasted it onto this store: 70 × 10 = 700 lb. That is their c-store ceiling example, not this 40-bag assumption. Using 70 replaces 40. It does not add to 40.

What those other rows would do to the same 80 sites — do not add them

Each figure replaces the bag line. It is the wrong unit.

• Hotel 5 lb per room: 80 × 5 = 400 lb. The arithmetic matches the 400 lb bag line by accident. It is still the hotel row. KaTom’s cooler adder on that room line is another 2 or 3 lb per room: 80 × 7 = 560 lb, or 80 × 8 = 640 lb. A pad is not a room, and a cooler bag is already the bag line.
• Specialty Marine 3.5 lb per person: 80 × 3.5 = 280 lb; Kitchen Spot +20% → 336 lb. That is the marina worksheet. These 80 are occupied sites in the assumption, not 80 people at a yacht-club bar, and the page does not say the park has 80 people.
• Event hall 2 lb per person on the sites: 80 × 2 = 160 lb; GoFoodservice’s buffered shape would be 192 lb. A site is not an attendee. The pavilion section uses a guest count.
• Restaurant 1.5 lb: 80 × 1.5 = 120 lb. That is a dining-room row. It is not cooler ice.

Bin versus the Saturday bag window

A 24-hour rating is not a stack of bags at the counter when the store opens. 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 (24-hour rating ÷ 24) is arithmetic, not an OEM hourly guarantee. Harvest is cyclic.

Assumption for this bin: the 400 lb raw bag line leaves during a 3-hour Saturday check-in window. The 480 lb figure is the same bags after KaTom’s 20%, if you size the window to that cell instead.

Manitowoc IYT0450A air-cooled half-dice, on the iT0450 PDF the wedding venue page opened 2026-10-24 (footer 6478 01/18): 490 lb @ 70/50, 378 lb @ 90/70. Head only. This page did not re-measure that PDF.

• 378 lb @ 90/70 misses the 400 lb raw day and the 480 lb buffered day as a same-day make. A July store uses 90/70 when the sheet has it. The 490 lb cell is the mild rating.
• 3 hours at 378: 378 ÷ 24 × 3 = 47.25 lb of arithmetic make.
• Shortfall on the 400 lb pull: 400 − 47.25 = 352.75 lb. Same shape as Atlantic’s example, opening stock equal to that window’s make: +47.25 lb → 400 lb usable.
• Same shape on the 480 lb pull: 480 − 47.25 = 432.75 lb shortfall; +47.25 lb → 480 lb usable. The 480 replaces 400.
• D-570 storage 543 lb, as cited on that wedding page from the same PDF. This page did not re-measure the bin. A full 543 lb sticker plus 47.25 lb of make is 590.25 lb if every pound scoops, which covers 400 and 480.
• Kitchen Spot’s 20% usable-loss reading: 543 × 0.80 = 434.4 lb, about 434 lb. Plus 47.25 lb ≈ 482 lb. That covers 400. It sits about 2 lb over 480 on this arithmetic. A bridged pile misses 480. Treat a full D-570 as the tight bin for the buffered Saturday, not as spare capacity.
• D-400 storage 365 lb on that PDF. 365 × 0.80 = 292 lb, plus 47.25 lb ≈ 339 lb, which misses 400 and 480. Nominal 365 + 47.25 = 412.25 lb covers 400 only if every pound scoops, and it misses 480.
• An empty D-570 at the 378 lb cell: 543 ÷ 378 ≈ 1.4 days of that rating. One night does not fill it. A camp store that sells ice every summer day does not get Kitchen Spot’s dark-weekday exception. The bin has to cover the morning from overnight recovery plus what the head harvests during the window. It does not get Monday through Thursday off to bank Saturday.

KaTom’s “bin about 75–80% of daily production” on a 378 lb head is 378 × 0.75 = 283.5 lb to 378 × 0.80 = 302.4 lb. That is their constantly used bin. It is smaller than the 400 lb window. Use it for a machine whose ice leaves all day. Use Atlantic’s window for a check-in rush that takes the day’s bags in three hours. Do not average 300 and 480.

Kitchen Spot’s “bin 10–20% larger than daily make” on the 378 lb rating is 378 × 1.10 = 415.8 lb to 378 × 1.20 = 453.6 lb. That shortcut is about the make, not about a 480 lb sales target. Their “usually a bad idea” line is a bin of twice daily make: 378 × 2 = 756 lb. The D-570’s 543 lb is under that twice-make figure. It is still the bin you check against the window, not against 756.

Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ product page opened 2026-10-25: approximately 556 lb / up to 556. 90/70 production is not on that page.

• If you apply Kitchen Spot’s “15% or more” because there is no 90/70 cell: 556 × 0.85 ≈ 473 lb. That is arithmetic on their derate sentence, not a printed 90/70 cell. 473 covers 400 and misses 480. “Or more” means a hot shed can be under 473. Do not also subtract 15% from the 480 lb target, and do not treat 556 as the July day.
• B-700SF, opened the same day: headline 700 lb. The page also says capacity is based on 24.77 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³, which multiplies to about 743 lb. The headline and the footnote do not match. We use the headline 700 lb, the same way the winery page uses the headline when a Hoshizaki bin footnote disagrees. Dimensions 44″ × 32.5″ × 46″. Top kits sold separately. A 22″ KM-520 on a 44″ bin is a kit question on that sheet. We did not open the kit table today. Kitchen Spot’s 20% less on the headline is 560 lb usable, which covers a 480 lb pull if the bin starts full.

Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A is 320 lb @ 90/70 on the PDF the wedding page opened (Rev 9/17), and the directory page already flags a later reprint at 310 lb @ 90/70. 320 and 310 both miss 400. Scotsman C0330MA-1 is 288 lb @ 90/70 on the Rewonline listing that wedding page opened. 288 misses 400. Bin pounds were not on that listing — omitted.

Smaller weekday — six 10 lb bags

Same KaTom method. Planning assumption: a midweek camp store, 6 bags, still 10 lb bags, no pavilion, no cups.

6 × 10 = 60 lb. KaTom’s 20% once → 72 lb.

Manitowoc UYF-0190A on the NEO 140/190 family sheet, as cited on the wedding page (6501D 6/22): 193 lb @ 70/50, 140 lb @ 90/70, 90 lb bin.

• 140 lb @ 90/70 covers the 60 lb line and the 72 lb buffered line as a 24-hour make.
• Assumption: those pounds leave in a 2-hour morning. 2 hours at 140: 140 ÷ 24 × 2 ≈ 11.7 lb of arithmetic make.
• Kitchen Spot’s 20% usable-loss reading: 90 × 0.80 = 72 lb stored. Plus about 11.7 lb ≈ 84 lb, which covers 60 and 72 if the two-hour window is real.
• If the six bags leave in the first minutes, before that make, the stored pile is the constraint. 72 lb usable matches the 72 lb buffered cell with no surplus. A bridged 90 lb bin misses it. The nominal 90 lb sticker covers 72 if every pound scoops.

UYF-0140A is 100 lb @ 90/70 with the same 90 lb bin. 100 covers 72. The bin math does not improve. This directory’s largest undercounter storage is that 90 lb. It does not hold the Saturday 400 lb pull. The peak day is a modular head and a bin.

Pavilion — a separate attendee line

Use this when a pavilion, rec hall, or event lawn serves ice to a counted crowd. Planning assumption: 100 attendees, one Saturday seating, indoor pavilion. They are not the 80 sites, and this section’s pounds are not inside the 400 lb bag line.

GoFoodservice Event Hall / Banquet prints 100 → 240 lb, and that table already includes 20%. The raw factor is 100 × 2 = 200 lb. The 240 lb cell is the buffered one. It replaces 200. It does not sit on the bag line.

KaTom’s event-hall sentence is the same 2 lb per person: 200 lb, then their page-level 20% → 240 lb. Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb plus their chart 20% is also 240 lb. One of those 240s. Adding them is 480 lb of the same guests.

Atlantic’s catering band and Chef’s Deal’s per-hour wedding band stay on the banquet, wedding, and catering pages. This section does not reopen them. A pavilion that is dark Monday through Friday can use Kitchen Spot’s one-or-two-day bin pattern for the pavilion machine. This directory does not list a 200 lb modular cube head. We do not invent one.

IYT0450A at 378 lb @ 90/70 covers a 240 lb pavilion day as make. Four hours at 378 is 63 lb. A full D-570 is more storage than that window needs. The bag Saturday is the harder production problem.

Both on the same Saturday, same head. Bags at KaTom’s 480 lb and a pavilion at 240 lb are 720 lb if both uses are real. 378 lb @ 90/70 does not make 720 in a day. A 4-hour overlap at 378 makes 63 lb. The window then wants on the order of 720 lb usable. A D-570 at 543 lb nominal, or about 434 lb after a 20% pile-up loss, does not hold that overlap. Two jobs that large are two production questions, or two windows you have actually separated on the clock. This page does not invent a shared-bin poundage that closes a 720 lb gap.

Camp-store cups — only if there is a soda well

Planning assumption: 80 fountain drinks, Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice / 16 oz drink, and these drinkers are not already on the pavilion row.

80 × 8 oz = 640 oz. 640 ÷ 16 = 40 lb. Chart +20% → 48 lb.

That 40 / 48 lb is the well. It does not replace the 400 / 480 lb bags, and it does not fix a head that makes 378 lb against a 480 lb bag target. Side by side, KaTom bags plus Kitchen Spot cups are 480 + 48 = 528 lb. Do not run (400 + 40) × 1.20 and then multiply by 1.20 again.

Ice Machine Sales’ 50–100 lb/day fountain-station band is their small c-store well, already separated from bags on the c-store page. 48 lb is under that band. 50–100 replaces the cup math if you chose their band and did not count cups. A cold-plate adder (KaTom 45%, GoFoodservice 45%, Memphis 50%) applies only when the fountain uses a cold plate. One adder, from the source you picked.

Merchandiser — a freezer, not a second cuber

If the park buys bagged ice and only holds it, the production line is zero. You need a merchandiser. You do not size a cuber for ice you do not make. This directory has no merchandiser SKU. We do not invent one.

Ice Machine Sales list bagged-ice merchandisers in a 100–600 lb storage band on the c-store page (retrieved 2026-09-04; still on that page in a 2026-10-25 lookup).

Be There’s merchandiser guide (published Oct 6, 2026, opened 2026-10-25) is a different publisher:

• Working figure: about 1.4 ten-pound bags per cubic foot. Their table’s 55 cu ft row is about 80 ten-pound bags, and the typical-site cell on that row says “Busy forecourt, campground.” 55 × 1.4 = 77, and the table says 80. We quote about 80. We do not pick a third number.
• About 80 bags × 10 lb = 800 lb of bag weight in that example. 800 is outside Ice Machine Sales’ 100–600 lb band. The two bands disagree. Do not average them into a VenueIce cabinet. Read the cabinet sheet you buy.
• Hold about −12°C to −6°C (10–21°F) so bags stay loose. One quick answer on the same page says roughly 10–20°F. We do not average 21 and 20. Warmer than their band, they say bags melt and refreeze together.
• They name auto-defrost for retail. A cold-wall cabinet, in their copy, builds frost and has to be emptied to defrost.
• Outdoor models, in their copy, need a weather-resistant cabinet, a rating for the hottest day, shade, and 30 cm clear on the air inlet and outlet. Thirty centimeters is about 12 inches — that conversion is arithmetic, not a second clearance they printed. They also say many forecourts see 43°C or more, which is about 109°F. That sentence is about the merchandiser. It is not an ambient rating for a cuber, and it sits above the KM-520 and CIM air maximums below.
• Their price sentence is omitted. Purchase bands for the ice machines in this directory stay on how much a commercial ice machine costs. That page does not price a merchandiser. Their FAQ says many ice companies place or lease a cabinet when the store buys their ice, and that renting often ties you to one supplier. That is their sentence, not a rate. Subscription figures stay on lease vs buy.

Size the cabinet to the delivery interval they print: a twice-a-week restock has to hold half a week, and a Saturday spike still has to fit. A merchandiser does not harvest ice. It does not replace the bin math above for ice you make yourself.

Cube type for bagging

Cooler bags want a hard cube that survives the bag and the merchandiser. See cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake.

The c-store page already records the split we use here. GoFoodservice assigns crescent and half-cube to general beverage and bagging, and cubelet / nugget to fountain drinks. Atlantic’s table assigns half cube to fountain and full cube to slower-melting drinks. Nugget’s high surface area is the fast melt. Flake is a display bed, not a 10 lb bag.

Medium cube is the slower-melt bag on the c-store page’s note for C0330MA-1. 288 lb @ 90/70 still misses the 400 lb Saturday. Cube shape does not add pounds.

Form factor

Cooling is a mechanical choice, not a bag factor. See air-cooled vs water-cooled and undercounter vs modular vs countertop.

Where it sits: store room, shed, and what cannot go outside

A camp store back room and a semi-conditioned shed are the install. A picnic shelter, a porch in the sun, and an unheated box in January are placement problems. Manufacturer “up to” numbers are a 70°F air / 50°F water comparison. Use the 90/70 column when the sheet has one.

Operating ranges:

• KM-520MAJ product page, opened 2026-10-25: air 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, pressure 10–113 psig. Heat rejection 7,000 BTU/h. The installation page already quotes the KM-350/520/660 instruction manual: ambient 45–100°F, and not for outdoor use. The product HTML we opened does not repeat the outdoor sentence. The manual does.
• iT0450 PDF, as opened 2026-10-24 on the wedding page: air 40–110°F, water 40–90°F. IYT0450 heat rejection on that citation is 3,800 average / 6,000 peak BTU/h.
• CIM0430, 60 Hz, on the installation page’s reading of the manual and the spec reprint: air 50–100°F. That page also records not approved for outdoor installation. CIM0430A heat rejection on the wedding citation is 5,100 BTU/h.
• NEO family sheet, as cited 2026-10-24: air 40–110°F, water 45–90°F, pressure 20–80 psi.

A shed at 105°F is inside the NEO and iT0450 air range on those sheets and outside the KM-520 and CIM0430 maximums. The top of a range is not the 70/50 production cell. Above the printed maximum, you are outside the sheet. None of these product pages is an outdoor ice-maker rating. Be There’s 43°C (about 109°F) forecourt sentence is about a merchandiser, not a license to set a KM-520 outside.

Air-cooled is the default: potable ice-making water only, and the heat stays in the room. Those BTUs are the room load. A boxed-in louver makes the 90/70 column optimistic. Water-cooled spends condenser water. On the iT0450 PDF cited above, IYT0450W is 470 / 420 lb with 140 gal per 100 lb of condenser water, and that PDF excludes water-cooled models from ENERGY STAR. Many cities restrict once-through cooling. A campground well and a septic field are a reason to stay air-cooled unless a mechanical plan already accounts for that water. Do not pick water-cooled to hide a sealed closet.

A remote condenser moves heat and fan noise outside. The head stays indoors. The outdoor unit is the condenser, on the line set that manual allows. This directory does not list a remote SKU. The match is model-specific: remote condenser vs self-contained. Putting the ice maker under the pavilion roof is not that install.

Clearance and the delivery path (a narrow store door, a shed ramp) are on the installation page. Two cabinets and a glass-door freezer on one camp-store circuit is an electrician question. The undercounters above are 115 V cord-and-plug. KM-520MAJ is hardwired 115 V, 10.6 A, 20 A max fuse, no cord on the page we opened. IYT0450A air-cooled on the cited PDF is 115 V, minimum circuit 11.9 A, max fuse 20 A.

Well water

Ice in a bag is tap water that froze, then sat in a freezer. A park on a well is a water question before it is a brand question.

• Pressure. Hoshizaki’s KM-520 page, opened 2026-10-25, is 10–113 psig. Manitowoc’s minimum on the NEO and iT0450 sheets cited above is 20 psi. A well pump that sags under a Saturday fill can clear 10 and miss 20. Too little pressure and harvest fails. The freezing-up page already ties low pressure and a clogged filter to a harvest that will not finish.
• Temperature. Those sheets top out at 90°F inlet water. We do not assign a temperature to “well water.” Inlet above the printed maximum is outside the rating.
• Filter. Use an ice-machine cartridge on the ice-maker inlet. The filters and descalers page records Hoshizaki H9320-51 (4HC-H) at 21,000 gallons for cubers under 900 lb/day, and the manufacturer line that these filters are not a sterilizer and are not for water that is microbiologically unsafe without disinfection. Change on gallons or months, sooner on a dirty well. A filter is not a skipped descale.
• Taste. Sulfur, metal, or a musty bin is the cloudy or bad-tasting ice checklist. That page did not find one sulfur ppm or iron ppm printed across the OEM books it opened. We do not invent one here.
• Potable water for ice. Check with your local health department. This page does not decide whether a given well is ice-making water.

Seasonal shutdown and the first weekend back

Ice Machine Sales’ c-store page says about two-thirds of bagged-ice sales fall between Memorial Day and Labor Day. That is their bagged-ice season, not a production rating and not a promise that your park matches it. Size the machine to the peak summer weekend you sell, Kitchen Spot’s busiest-day rule. A Tuesday in June is not the target. A January you are closed is not their 10–30 bag winter band.

The published clean interval is a calendar on that model’s manual. A dark week in July does not pause it, and a winter you closed does not erase the clean you owe before the first customer bag. Intervals already collected on how to clean: Manitowoc cubers, including the NEO book cited there, at least every six months; Hoshizaki KM cubers at least once a year, more often in some water conditions; Scotsman Prodigy Plus a minimum of every six months. We do not average those into a campground interval.

The NEO sheet’s delay control, and programmable off-times where a sheet prints them, pause production on days the store is closed. Pausing is not a sanitize. A season you power the machine off is not the delay button.

Off-season shutdown steps are on that model’s manual (removal from service, winterizing, or long storage). Do not copy one cabinet’s drain cap onto another head. The leaking water page records a rubber cap under the reservoir in the Scotsman CU50 winterizing steps. That cap is that book. The food truck page’s winter line is the same boundary: drain to the manufacturer’s winterization steps. A frozen evaporator is a replacement conversation on repair vs replace, not a campground procedure this page prints.

Do not leave an unheated store trying to harvest below the air minimum on the sheet you bought: KM-520 45°F, CIM0430 50°F, IYT0450 and NEO 40°F. The freezing-up page already quotes the Hoshizaki KM service manual: install the appliance where it stays above freezing, normal ambient 45°F to 100°F, and do not leave it on in sub-freezing temperatures. Cold-ambient harvest faults on that page are a move-the-machine problem. They are not a reason to keep making ice in a March shed.

Idle machines grow the problem the cleaning page cites. ACHR News, quoting Hoshizaki’s Rodd Burger, as already recorded there: a shutdown that leaves standing water needs a clean and sanitize before the ice is for customers, and the startup notes include discarding the first ice. Do that before the first holiday weekend, then a new filter if the cartridge is past the interval. Check with your local health department. We are not writing that letter.

What this page is not

• Not a lb-per-site chart. The charts we opened do not have one. The unit is bag weight × bags on the peak day, or your own bags-per-occupied-site from the register.
• Not a marina. Specialty Marine 3.5 lb per person and boat-cooler bags as a second line stay on ice machine for a marina.
• Not a hotel. 5 lb per room, including KaTom’s +2 or +3 lb cooler adder, stays on ice machine for a hotel.
• Not a c-store worksheet copied wholesale. Fountain ounces and the 20–70 summer band are published there. The page for that building is ice machine for a convenience store.
• Not a banquet or a wedding. Attendee totals for a plated reception stay on the banquet hall and wedding venue pages. A 100-person pavilion can use the event-hall 2 lb cell. It does not import the rest of those worksheets.
• Not a food truck. Power and a water tank stay on ice machine for a food truck.
• Not a price list. Street prices omitted, including Be There’s merchandiser price sentence.
• Not a review. No scores and no borrowed stories about parks.
• Not a health-code letter. Check with your local health department.

Sources

1. KaTom, How Much Ice Should Your Commercial Ice Maker Produce? — packaged ice is bag weight × bags per day; page-level add 20%; cold plate 45%; event hall or church fellowship hall 2 lb per person; hotel 5 lb per room, plus 2 or 3 lb if guests fill coolers; usual bin about 75–80% of daily production; sporadic event bin about 1.5× daily production. No campground row. Schema dateModified 2026-09-14 (retrieved 2026-10-25).
2. The Kitchen Spot, Commercial Ice Machine Sizes — chart header add 20%; extended events 2 lb; hotel guest ice 5 lb per room; Specialty Marine 3.5 lb; fountain ounces including 8 oz / 16 oz; hot-room 15% or more; size from peak days. No campground, RV, or site row (retrieved 2026-10-25). The one-or-two-day bin exception is the sentence already cited on the wedding venue page from Kitchen Spot’s sizing article. This page does not re-quote a different bin exception.
3. GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — packaged ice 10 lbs × bags; Event Hall / Banquet 2 lb per person; quick-reference 100 → 240 lb with the 20% buffer already inside. Header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026, as opened on the wedding-venue page (2026-10-24). The c-store page records the same packaged-ice cell.
4. Ice Machine Sales, Convenience Store & Gas Station Ice Machines — bagged ice 20–70+ bags/day summer, 10–30 winter; about two-thirds of bagged-ice sales between Memorial Day and Labor Day; merchandisers 100–600 lb storage; fountain station 50–100 lb/day. Cited on the c-store guide (retrieved 2026-09-04). Those cells were still on the live page in a 2026-10-25 lookup. They are c-store cells.
5. Be There, Bagged Ice Merchandiser Buying Guide — published Oct 6, 2026. About 1.4 ten-pound bags per cubic foot; table row 55 cu ft ≈ 80 bags, typical site “Busy forecourt, campground”; hold −12°C to −6°C (10–21°F), with a quick answer that says roughly 10–20°F; auto-defrost for retail; outdoor checklist including shade, 30 cm air clearance, and forecourts at 43°C or more. Price sentence on that page omitted (retrieved 2026-10-25).
6. Hoshizaki, KM-520MAJ product page — approximately 556 lb, 22″ × 27.375″ × 28″, 115 V hardwire, 10.6 A, 20 A max fuse, 7,000 BTU/h, ambient 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, 10–113 psig, 4.68 kWh and 14.7 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70, R-404A, bins including B-700. 90/70 production not on the HTML. The outdoor-use prohibition is the instruction manual, as already quoted on the installation page, not a sentence on this HTML (retrieved 2026-10-25).
7. Hoshizaki, B-700SF — headline 700 lb; footnote 24.77 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³ (about 743 lb). We use the headline. 44″ × 32.5″ × 46″; top kits sold separately; 3/4″ FPT drain (retrieved 2026-10-25).
8. Manitowoc iT0450 PDF (footer 6478 01/18), NEO family sheet (6501D 6/22), CIM0430 PDF (Rev 9/17), and the Rewonline C0330MA-1 listing — figures as opened 2026-10-24 on the wedding venue page and stored on the directory pages: IYT0450A 490 / 378 lb, D-570 543 lb, D-400 365 lb, ambient 40–110°F; UYF-0190A 193 / 140 lb, UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin, ambient 40–110°F; CIM0430A 435 / 320 lb with a later reprint flagged at 310 @ 90/70; C0330MA-1 400 / 288 lb. This page did not re-open those sheets.
9. Existing VenueIce pages for intervals, install limits, and the bag-versus-fountain split this article does not reprint: how to size, ice bin sizing, c-store, how to clean, filters and descalers, installation, freezing up, leaking water, cloudy or bad-tasting ice, cost, lease vs buy.

If two sheets disagree, we say so and prefer the latest OEM page or PDF. On KM-520, the HTML does not print 90/70 production. On B-700, the headline 700 and the volume footnote do not match. On CIM0430A, the PDF opened for the wedding page prints 320 lb @ 90/70; a later reprint flagged on the directory page prints 310. On Be There, the hold band is 10–21°F in the short answer and roughly 10–20°F in a quick answer. Ice Machine Sales’ merchandiser band is 100–600 lb; Be There’s 80-bag example is about 800 lb of 10 lb bags. We do not average those pairs.