Ice machine for a ghost kitchen (dark kitchen / cloud kitchen)

A ghost kitchen, dark kitchen, or cloud kitchen is a delivery-only kitchen. The ice goes into a cup that gets sealed for an app order, or into a bag that goes in the delivery bag. There is no dining-room well and, in the usual suite, no customer reaching into a bin. Charts we opened on 2026-10-10 do not print a ghost-kitchen, dark-kitchen, cloud-kitchen, commissary-suite, or pounds-per-delivery row. The closest published lines are the quick-service cup ounces already used on the fast-food / QSR page, Atlantic’s quick-service restaurant 0.5–1.0 lb per customer (that row names takeout volume), and a separate bag line when ice leaves in bags.

That is a different worksheet from a full-service restaurant cover at 1.5 lb per guest. It is a different worksheet from a catering company that has to have ice at a wedding when the first glass is poured. It is a different worksheet from a food truck limited to a generator, a gray-water tank, and a 115 V cord. A shared commissary can hold all three jobs. They do not share one pound number.

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. Confirm electrical, plumbing, clearance, and sanitation with the people who inspect the building.

Who this is for

• Delivery-only kitchens — ghost kitchens, dark kitchens, cloud kitchens — that assemble drinks in the kitchen and hand sealed cups to a driver.
• Multi-brand commissaries where two or more virtual brands bag orders from one line and one ice machine.
• Operators choosing a machine versus bought bags in a small mechanical room that already holds a cookline’s heat.

It is not a drive-thru window. The fast-food page’s worked day is 800 drive-thru cups plus 200 lobby cups. A delivery bag is not that window. It is not a dining room. It is not an off-site catering van. It is not a convenience-store grab-and-go merchandiser. The 10 lb × bags math can be the same. The customer walking out with a retail bag is not. It is not a food truck unless the kitchen is actually on wheels.

What is different in this kitchen

• No front-of-house ice well. GoFoodservice’s modular copy, opened 2026-10-10, says those heads are staff access, back-of-house, not public access. Their dispenser band is the public-access machine. A suite with no customer ice station is the staff-access case. A pickup window where the customer fills a cup is a dispenser problem, and those cups are not also counted as sealed delivery drinks.
• The drink and the bag are different lines. Ice scooped into a 16 oz cup that then gets a lid is the ounce table. A 10 lb bag dropped into the delivery tote is GoFoodservice’s packaged-ice row, or Atlantic’s bagging or off-site worksheet row. The same ice is not both.
• Several brands are one day if they share the machine. Add the cups. Do not buy one head per logo sized to the combined day. Kitchen Spot’s “multiple units” paragraph is about backup, a shorter walk, and a second ice form. It is not a per-brand multiplier. Brands in separate locked suites, with separate machines, stay separate.
• The room is often small and hot. The machine shares a commissary hole with other tenants: one circuit, a mop sink, a cookline a few feet away. Kitchen Spot’s derate sentence is a ~90° kitchen and ~70° water. Use the 90/70 column when the sheet has one. A self-contained air-cooled head dumps condenser heat into that room. A remote condenser moves that heat outside. See remote condenser vs self-contained. This directory has no remote SKU.
• Utilities are shared. Voltage, drain, and clearance are the installation guide. A landlord’s 115 V outlet is not a dedicated circuit just because the suite is small.

Published factors

None of the pages below name a ghost kitchen. These are dealer and OEM application rules of thumb, not a manufacturer warranty and not a lab measurement of your bag-out.

Pick one published line for the drinks. Say which buffer you used. Do not put Kitchen Spot’s 20%, Atlantic’s 15–25%, GoFoodservice’s calculator 20%, a cold-plate percent, and a hot-room derate on the same pounds.

Separate worksheets — do not stack the same cup

• A delivery ticket is not a cup. Count drinks that actually get ice. A bowl with no drink is zero. Atlantic: where beverage counts exist, cup-by-cup is more precise than a per-customer estimate.
• Two brands add. They are one day if they share the machine. Brand A’s 200 cups and brand B’s 80 cups are 280 cups, not two machines each sized to 280.
• One ounce chart per cup. Kitchen Spot’s 8 oz ice on a 16 oz drink and GoFoodservice’s 8 oz on a 12–16 oz cup can land on the same 16 oz cup. They are the same 8 oz, not 16 oz. Kitchen Spot’s 16 oz ice on a 32 oz drink is not on GoFoodservice’s ladder. That ladder stops at 16–24 oz. Do not invent a fourth GoFoodservice cell.
• Ice Machine Sales prints the same six cells and no percent. Kitchen Spot’s 20% belongs on a Kitchen Spot application. It is not a second margin on the Ice Machine Sales table unless you say you moved the day onto Kitchen Spot.
• Atlantic’s 0.5–1.0 lb per customer replaces the ounce line when you have orders and no cup count. If you already counted cups, do not also multiply orders by 0.5–1.0. Do not put Kitchen Spot’s 20% on an Atlantic total. If you want a reserve on the Atlantic row, use Atlantic’s own table. A delivery kitchen with a repeatable indoor Saturday is closer to 15–25% (seasonal or growing) than to the outdoor 25–30% cell. Use the outdoor cell only if the demand is actually that variable.
• A bag is not a second pass through the cup. Eight 10 lb bags are 80 lb on GoFoodservice’s cell. Those pounds are not also 8 cups.
• Cooling ice in the tote is measured, or it is zero. We did not find a published pounds-per-entrée. Atlantic’s prep line is a scale, not a slogan.
• A cold plate is its own adder, once, only if that dispenser uses one. Most sealed delivery drinks do not. GoFoodservice prints 45%. Kitchen Spot’s beverage table does not print a cold-plate percent. Do not invent one in their name.
• One buffer, from the source you picked. Kitchen Spot’s 20% (or 10% once that line’s needs exceed 1,000 lb/day) belongs on a Kitchen Spot application, once.
• A drive-thru, a dining room, a wedding, and a truck stay on their own pages. Those cups and covers are not also this kitchen’s delivery drinks.

Worked peak day — one brand, drinks filled, no extra bags

Cup counts below are a planning assumption, not a measured POS pull. One suite. One peak Saturday. Drinks are filled, lidded, and handed to a driver. No dining room. No separate ice bags. No cold plate. No second brand.

• Dinner bag-out, 2 hours: 120 cups, treated as Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice / 16 oz drink.
• The rest of the day: 40 cups, same row.

Day: 120 + 40 = 160 cups.

160 × 8 oz = 1,280 oz. 1,280 ÷ 16 = 80 lb.

Kitchen Spot’s table says add 20%. The raw need is 80 lb, which does not exceed 1,000 lb/day:

80 × 1.20 = 96 lb.

We do not multiply 96 by another 20%. We do not also take Atlantic’s 15–25% or GoFoodservice’s calculator 20%. The hot-room sentences are why the model section uses 90/70 when the sheet has it.

• Dinner window: 120 × 8 ÷ 16 = 60 lb raw; × 1.20 = 72 lb.
• The rest: 40 × 8 ÷ 16 = 20 lb raw; × 1.20 = 24 lb.
• Check: 60 + 20 = 80. 72 + 24 = 96.

Same 160 cups, a different Kitchen Spot row

Each line replaces the 80 / 96 lb day. It does not sit on top of it.

The 16 oz / 32 oz line is 160 lb of need. That does not exceed 1,000, so Kitchen Spot’s 20% still applies (192 lb). Their 10% sentence replaces 20% only when the need itself exceeds 1,000 lb/day.

Other charts on these 160 cups — pick one, do not add it

Ice Machine Sales prints the same six ounce cells and no percent. The raw column above is that chart. The +20% column is Kitchen Spot, not the FAQ table.

GoFoodservice quick-service cups, same 160:

• 7–12 oz cup, 5 oz: 50 lb
• 12–16 oz cup, 8 oz: 80 lb
• 16–24 oz cup, 12 oz: 120 lb

A 32 oz drink is not on that ladder. Their calculator’s 20% is not on these cells. Their 2 lb per person row is not these cells. 160 tickets × 2 lb = 320 lb is the restaurant row applied to a ticket count. It is the wrong method. Kitchen Spot 1.5 lb × 160 tickets = 240 lb is the same mistake. Ice Machine Sales catering 1.5 lb × 160 = 240 lb is the wedding row, not this kitchen.

Atlantic QSR, only as a replacement, and only if you treat the 160 cups as 160 customers with one drink each (a planning assumption, not a POS fact):

• 0.5 lb per customer: 160 × 0.5 = 80 lb. That matches the Kitchen Spot 8 oz / 16 oz raw line. It does not get a second 20%.
• 1.0 lb per customer: 160 × 1.0 = 160 lb. That matches the 16 oz / 32 oz raw line.
• Atlantic’s seasonal reserve, if you want their buffer on the 0.5 lb line: 80 × 1.15 = 92 lb, or 80 × 1.25 = 100 lb. That band replaces the 96 lb Kitchen Spot margin. It is not 96 + 92.

Worked peak day — two brands, one shared machine

Same Kitchen Spot method. Planning assumption. One commissary. One head. Two virtual brands bag during the same Saturday. No extra ice bags. No dining room.

• Brand A: 200 drinks, Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice / 16 oz drink. 140 of them leave in the 2-hour dinner bag-out. 60 leave the rest of the day.
• Brand B: 80 drinks, Kitchen Spot 12 oz ice / 24 oz drink. 50 of them leave in that same 2-hour window. 30 leave the rest of the day.

Brand A raw: 200 × 8 ÷ 16 = 100 lb. Brand B raw: 80 × 12 ÷ 16 = 60 lb. Day: 100 + 60 = 160 lb.

Kitchen Spot’s 20% once, on the sum: 160 × 1.20 = 192 lb.

Applying 20% to each brand and then adding is the same 192 (120 + 72). That is one buffer. Applying 20% twice is the mistake: 160 × 1.20 × 1.20 = 230.4 lb. Buying two heads because there are two logos, and sizing each head to the combined 192 lb, copies the building. The cups already added.

• Dinner window, brand A: 140 × 8 ÷ 16 = 70 lb raw.
• Dinner window, brand B: 50 × 12 ÷ 16 = 37.5 lb raw.
• Window: 70 + 37.5 = 107.5 lb raw; × 1.20 = 129 lb.
• The rest: brand A 60 × 8 ÷ 16 = 30 lb; brand B 30 × 12 ÷ 16 = 22.5 lb; rest = 52.5 lb.
• Check: 107.5 + 52.5 = 160. 129 + (52.5 × 1.20) = 129 + 63 = 192.

A third brand with no iced drinks adds zero. A third brand with its own locked suite and its own machine is not this sum.

The 192 lb day is past every undercounter bin in the model section below if the dinner window is 107.5 / 129 lb. The largest built-in bin opened for this page is 90 lb. That is a modular head and a bin, not a second undercounter per brand.

Bags — only the ice that is actually bagged

GoFoodservice’s packaged-ice cell is 10 lbs × bags. Atlantic’s bagging row is peak-day quantity, then one reserve on the subtotal. Count bags you fill or buy. Do not invent a melt percent in the courier’s car. We did not open a published melt figure for a delivery tote on 2026-10-10.

Bags instead of filled cups. Planning assumption: the kitchen sends 12 ten-pound bags and does not also ice the cups. 12 × 10 = 120 lb. GoFoodservice’s cell does not print a percent. That 120 lb is the line. If all 12 bags leave in one window, the bin has to hold that pull. A 90 lb sticker misses 120 lb before any usable-loss reading.

Bags plus filled cups. Take the one-brand day (80 lb raw cups, 96 lb after Kitchen Spot’s 20%) and add 8 ten-pound bags that are not those cups: 8 × 10 = 80 lb. Cups with the Kitchen Spot margin, plus bags with no second margin: 96 + 80 = 176 lb. The 20% was already on the cups. It is not also on the 80.

Atlantic’s shape on the same planning numbers, as a replacement: cup ice 80 lb + bags 80 lb = 160 lb subtotal. Seasonal reserve 15%: 160 × 1.15 = 184 lb. 25%: 160 × 1.25 = 200 lb. That band replaces 176. It is not 176 + 184.

A refrigerated salsa pan, a bottled drink, and an entrée with no ice in the tote are zero. If the tote actually gets a measured scoop of cooling ice, add that weighed line once. Do not copy the cup ounces onto the entrée.

Bin and the bag-out window

The day’s pounds do not leave in one minute, and they do not sit in the bin all day. Ice bin sizing is the leftover page. Production in 24 hours is not storage. An undersized bin shuts the head off while the window is still open.

The one-brand window is 60 lb raw or 72 lb after Kitchen Spot’s 20% on those cups. The two-brand window is 107.5 lb raw or 129 lb with that same 20%. Adding the windows to “the rest of the day” double-counts the day.

Manitowoc IYT0450A air-cooled half-dice. The iT0450 sheet opened 2026-10-10 (Manitowoc 6478B, 08/2022) prints 490 lb @ 70/50 and 378 lb @ 90/70 on the half-dice air-cooled row. Head only.

• 378 lb @ 90/70 covers the one-brand 96 lb day, the 192 lb two-brand day, and the 192 lb 32 oz one-brand day. It covers the 176 lb and 200 lb bag-plus-cup readings above.
• Two hours at 378: 378 ÷ 24 × 2 = 31.5 lb. The hourly split is arithmetic, not an OEM hourly guarantee. Harvest is cyclic. The bin still has to hold most of a 129 lb window.
• The same sheet’s drawing of an iT0450 on a D-400 bin prints 365 lb storage. The footnote is 90% of volume × 33 lb/ft³. A full 365 lb sticker covers a 129 lb window on paper. Kitchen Spot’s 20% usable-loss reading is 365 × 0.80 = 292 lb, which still covers 129. Their “bin 10–20% larger than daily make” shortcut, applied to 378 lb of make, is 416–454 lb. 365 is under that shortcut and far under a bin twice the maker (756 lb). Pair the D-400 only if the head’s current sheet still lists it. This page does not invent a shared-bin poundage.
• The URI product page opened the same day says this head is not stackable. The 08/2022 sheet text we extracted does not print that sentence. Treat “not stackable” as the dealer page, and read the sheet that matches the serial.

Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ product page, opened 2026-10-10: approximately 556 lb. 90/70 is not on that page. 556 covers 96, 192, and 200 on the “approximately 556” cell. 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 still covers 200. Do not also subtract 15% from the 192 lb target. GoFoodservice’s 10–15% is the other hot-room sentence: 556 × 0.90 = 500 lb, or 556 × 0.85 = 473 lb. Use one derate, not both.

Hoshizaki B-300SF, opened 2026-10-10: the page prints 300 lb storage and also prints 11.51 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³. 11.51 × 30 = 345.3, which is not 300. Use the 300 lb sticker they print as the capacity claim. Do not treat 345 as a second bin. A full 300 lb sticker covers a 129 lb window. Kitchen Spot’s 20% usable-loss reading is 300 × 0.80 = 240 lb, which still covers 129. The KM-520MAJ product page lists B-300 among compatible bins. The B-300SF page lists KM-520M among compatible icemakers. Confirm the top kit on the current spec. A 300 lb bin is smaller than a 556 lb day of make, so the head will shut off before it has produced 556. That is not a shortage if the window fits. It is Kitchen Spot’s warning that a small bin does not let you use the head’s full day. This kitchen’s target is 192 lb, not 556.

One-brand window, own cabinet

The 80 / 96 lb day, dinner pull 60 / 72 lb, is a different bin problem.

Manitowoc UYF-0190A on the NEO 140/190 family sheet (6501D, 6/22), opened 2026-10-10: 193 lb @ 70/50, 140 lb @ 90/70, 90 lb bin. The bin footnote is application capacity from 90% of volume × 33 lb/ft³.

• 140 lb @ 90/70 covers 96 and the 120 lb 20 oz buffered day. It misses the 144 lb 24 oz buffered day and the 192 lb 32 oz buffered day.
• The 90 lb bin covers a 72 lb dinner if it starts with ice. Kitchen Spot’s usable-loss reading: 90 × 0.90 = 81 lb, which still covers 72, and 90 × 0.80 = 72 lb, which meets 72 with no surplus. It does not cover the two-brand 107.5 / 129 lb window.
• Two hours at 140: 140 ÷ 24 × 2 ≈ 11.7 lb. A short bin does not refill itself during the bag-out.

Manitowoc UYF-0140A on the same sheet: 137 / 100 lb, same 90 lb bin. 100 lb @ 90/70 covers the 96 lb day and misses the 120 lb 20 oz day. Same bin note. Same miss on the two-brand window.

Hoshizaki KM-161BAK product page, opened 2026-10-10: up to 156 lb, 78 lb bin. The bin note is AHRI 820, 2.6 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³, which is 78. 90/70 is not on that HTML. 156 covers the 96 lb day and the 144 lb 24 oz day on the “156” cell. It misses 192. If you apply a 15% derate because 90/70 is missing: 156 × 0.85 = 132.6 lb. That covers 120 and misses 144. The 78 lb bin covers a 72 lb dinner only if you do not apply the usable-loss reading. 78 × 0.90 = 70.2 lb, which misses 72. 78 × 0.80 = 62.4 lb, which misses 72.

Hoshizaki KM-81BAK spec PDF dated 05/20/26, Item #13552K, opened 2026-10-10: 98 lb @ 70/50, 76 lb @ 90/70, 38 lb bin. 76 misses the 80 lb raw day and the 96 lb buffered day. The 38 lb bin misses a 60 lb dinner.

The Build.com reprint of the Ice-O-Matic ICEU150 sheet (Rev 3/16, part 1001), opened 2026-10-10, prints air-cooled ICEU150A at 185 lb @ 70/50 and 130 lb @ 90/70, with 70 lb storage. The directory SKU is ICEU150HA. The production row on that reprint is labeled ICEU150A, not HA. Half-cube dimensions are on the same sheet. Confirm the suffix on the data plate before you treat 130 as the machine in the room. 130 covers 96 and 120 and misses 144. The 70 lb bin misses a 72 lb dinner even at the sticker.

Ice type

A sealed 16 oz delivery drink and a chewable soda are different jobs. See cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake. Atlantic’s ice-type table, opened 2026-10-10, puts half cube on fountain drinks and general beverage service, crescent on general beverage service, nugget on soft drinks, and flake on food displays. Two ice forms are two systems.

• Half-dice or crescent is the usual ice in a lidded delivery cup. That is the cube on IYT0450A, UYF-0190A, KM-520MAJ, KM-161BAK, and CIM0430A. GoFoodservice calls crescent the general-purpose cube.
• Nugget or cubelet when the brand wants chewable ice in the cup. The directory’s nugget and pearl heads are on the ice-type page. This page does not restate a 90/70 cell it did not re-open on 2026-10-10.
• Flake is not the drink plant. A display well or a packing bed is a second system. A delivery kitchen with no display has a flake line of zero.

Form factor, heat, and the mechanical room

Cooling is a mechanical choice, not an ounce factor. See air-cooled vs water-cooled, remote condenser vs self-contained, and undercounter vs modular vs countertop.

GoFoodservice’s form bands, opened 2026-10-10: modular 250–2,500 lb/day, staff access, storage 230–4,600+ lb with a separate bin; undercounter 50–500 lb/day make, built-in storage 7–250 lb, typical commercial output 100–250 lb/day; dispenser production 200–800 lb/day. A band is not a SKU. This directory’s undercounter bins opened for this page top out at 90 lb. The two-brand kitchen leaves that class because of the dinner leftover, even though 192 lb of make still sits inside GoFoodservice’s undercounter production band.

Heat the sheets actually print

Self-contained air-cooled machines reject condenser heat into the room. These are the cells on the pages opened 2026-10-10. They are not a room-load calculation for your closet.

Do not add these BTU figures to the pound target. A boxed-in alcove will not give you the 70/50 column. Use 90/70 when you have it. Kitchen Spot’s 15% or more and GoFoodservice’s 10–15% are what you say when the sheet does not. Do not apply both, and do not apply either on top of a 90/70 number you already used.

The remote condenser guide is the layout that moves the condenser fan and the condenser heat outside. AHRI still rates a split system with hot air at the condenser. Line-set limits are in that guide, and they are not one industry number. No remote head is in this directory. Ordering a remote condenser for a self-contained SKU is a different machine.

Power, drain, and the shared closet

Read the data plate, then the PDF that matches that serial. The rows below are the sheets opened 2026-10-10, plus clearance the installation guide already recorded on 2026-10-06 where this page did not re-open the instruction manual. A sibling suffix prints a different voltage or a different drain.

Drain lines, air gaps, and whether a pump is allowed change by manual. KM-81’s optional pump is HS-5061. That accessory is not a pump you add to a KM-520 because the KM-81 has one. The installation guide records the Ice-O-Matic CIM manual’s “condensate pumps are not recommended” sentence. Check the book that matches the serial, then a licensed plumber. This page does not say an install meets a health department or a commissary license.

Water wants to be cold and potable, inside the pressure band on that sheet. A filter is a separate decision. See water filters and descalers. Cleaning after startup stays on how to clean a commercial ice machine.

The doorway is the carton, not the installed cabinet. KM-81BAK’s spec prints a shipping carton of 27 × 21 × 39 inches. KM-520MAJ’s product page prints a shipping weight of 175 lb and does not print a carton. If the sheet in your hand has no crate dimensions, get them before you promise the elevator.

Current heads already in this directory

Figures are the sheets named above. Street prices omitted. Pair a modular head with a bin from that sheet’s compatibility list.

What this page is not

• Not a drive-thru QSR. Cup-fill ounces overlap. The fast-food guide’s worked day is a window plus a lobby. A delivery bag does not inherit that count. If this building also has a drive-thru, those window cups stay on that page.
• Not a full-service restaurant. Covers at 1.5 lb per guest stay on the restaurant guide. A delivery ticket is not a cover.
• Not a catering commissary’s event dump. Bagging overlaps. Attendee rows and a van that has to arrive before the first toast stay on the catering guide. A wedding this kitchen also plates is that page, not a second pass through tonight’s 160 cups.
• Not a convenience store. 10 lb × bags overlaps. A retail merchandiser as the primary line stays on the c-store guide.
• Not a deli. Fountain ounces overlap. A salad-bar flake well stays on the deli guide.
• Not a food truck. A 115 V limit, a gray-water tank, and highway vibration stay on the food truck guide. This page is a fixed suite.
• Not a code letter. NSF marks and manuals are on the sheets. We do not say an install meets a health department, a commissary license, or a delivery-platform rule.
• Not a review and not a price list. No scores, no invented install counts, no street prices.

Sources

1. The Kitchen Spot, Ice Machines: Sizing for Application — “Convenience Store, Quick Serve, & Drive Through Beverage Service”: 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 16 oz ice per 10 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 32 oz drink. Restaurant 1.5 lbs per guest. General catering 1.5 lbs per person. Hotel catering 1 lb per person. Table marked add 20%. Once needs exceed 1,000 lb/day, 10% additional output should suffice. A ~90° kitchen and ~70° water can cut make by 15% or more. Bin usually 10–20% larger than daily make; expect the pile to hold 10–20% less than the printed pounds. A bin twice the maker is usually a bad idea except ice used one or two days a week. Multiple machines for backup, access, or a second ice form. No ghost-kitchen row. Opened 2026-10-10.
2. Ice Machine Sales, Commercial Ice Machines — FAQ chart. Quick serve and drive-through beverage: the same six drink cells. Restaurant 1.5 lbs per guest. General catering 1.5 lbs per person. Hotel catering 1 lb per person. No percent on the FAQ table. No ghost-kitchen row. Opened 2026-10-10.
3. GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — quick service cups same as convenience store (5 oz / 7–12 oz cup; 8 / 12–16; 12 / 16–24); packaged ice 10 lbs × bags; cold plates 45% more; restaurant 2 lbs per person; catering 1.5 lbs per person; event hall 2 lbs per person. Customer-count table includes 20% and has no quick-service column. Actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot environments. Modular 250–2,500 lb/day, staff access, not public access; undercounter 50–500, built-in storage 7–250, typical 100–250; dispenser 200–800. Ice baggers are described for retail bags and, in their copy, for filling buckets or boxes. Live header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026. No ghost-kitchen row. Opened 2026-10-10.
4. Atlantic Store Equipment, Commercial Ice Machine Sizing Guide — dated Jul 15, 2026. Quick-service restaurant 0.5–1.0 lb per customer (“drink size, refill policy, and takeout volume”). Full-service restaurant about 1.5 lb per customer. Catering or banquet 1–1.5 lb per attendee. Cup-by-cup is more precise when beverage counts exist. Kitchen and food preparation is measured peak-day use. Bagging or off-site use is its own worksheet row. Reserve table: 10–15%, 15–25%, or 25–30%. Bin formula: ice used in the window − ice produced in the window + opening safety stock. Bagging or a short rush may need storage closer to 50–70% of peak-day demand when hourly records are missing. Half cube for fountain drinks; crescent for general beverage service; nugget for soft drinks; flake for food displays; two ice forms are two systems. No ghost-kitchen row. Opened 2026-10-10.
5. Hoshizaki KM-81BAK product page and KM-81/116BAK spec PDF, Item #13552K, dated 05/20/26 — 98 lb @ 70/50, 76 lb @ 90/70, 38 lb bin, 115 V, 2.4 A, 15 A, NEMA 5-15P, front-in / front-out, 1,800 BTU/hr, clearance 12 inches front and 0.6 inch top, shipping carton 27 × 21 × 39 inches, optional HS-5061. Opened 2026-10-10.
6. Hoshizaki KM-161BAK product page — up to 156 lb, 78 lb bin (AHRI 820, 2.6 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³), 115 V, 3.5 A, 15 A, NEMA 5-15P, 2,800 BTU/hr, front-in / front-out, cabinet 23.75 × 28 × 39 inches. 90/70 not on that HTML. Opened 2026-10-10.
7. Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ product page — approximately 556 lb, 115 V hardwired, 10.6 A, 20 A, 7,000 BTU/hr, cabinet 22 × 27.375 × 28 inches, compatible bins include B-300, two units may be mounted side by side. 90/70 not on that page. Opened 2026-10-10.
8. Hoshizaki B-300SF product page — prints 300 lb and also prints 11.51 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³ (11.51 × 30 = 345.3, which is not 300). Compatible icemakers named on that page include KM-520M. Opened 2026-10-10.
9. Manitowoc NEO 140/190 family sheet, asset oabas, document 6501D, 6/22 — UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb, UYF-0190A 193 / 140 lb, 90 lb bin, 115 V at 5 A and 6 A, NEMA 5-15P, 2,150 / 2,600 BTU/hr printed for both U-140 and U-190. Opened 2026-10-10.
10. Manitowoc iT0450 sheet, asset pzoofx, document 6478B, 08/2022 — IYT0450A 490 / 378 lb, air-cooled 115 V MCA 11.9, max fuse 20 A, series heat 3,800 average / 6,000 peak BTU/hr, D-400 storage 365 lb on that drawing. IYT0450W 420 lb @ 90/70 and 140 gal condenser water per 100 lb; water-cooled models excluded from ENERGY STAR on that sheet. Opened 2026-10-10. URI IYT0450A page, opened the same day: 30 × 24.5 × 21.5 inches, not stackable. Street price on that page omitted.
11. Ice-O-Matic CIM0430/0436/0435 spec, Webstaurant reprint Rev 9/17, part C002 — CIM0430A 435 / 320 lb, 115/60/1, MCA 11.0, fuse 15, 6 inch air clearance, 5,100 BTU/hr. A 2025 depot URL for a later reprint did not return the PDF on 2026-10-10.
12. Ice-O-Matic ICEU150 spec reprint, Build.com, Rev 3/16, part 1001 — air-cooled row labeled ICEU150A, 185 / 130 lb, 70 lb storage, 9.7 A, 15 A fuse, front air discharge. The directory slug is ICEU150HA. Confirm the suffix. Opened 2026-10-10.
13. VenueIce, how to size a commercial ice machine, ice bin sizing, installation requirements (KM-520 clearance recorded there on 2026-10-06; this page did not re-open that instruction PDF), and remote condenser vs self-contained. The sizing table does not list a ghost-kitchen row, because the charts above do not publish one. This page does not invent one there.

If two sheets disagree, we say so. The B-300SF page’s 300 lb sticker and its 11.51 × 30 footnote do not multiply to the same number. The iT0450 clearance note’s 8 inches and 30.50 cm do not match. Use the capacity and the inch clearance the pages print, and do not average them into a third figure.