Ice machine for a golf course (public / daily-fee / municipal)

A public, daily-fee, or municipal golf course is a snack counter, a halfway house, and ice that leaves in cart coolers. Charts we opened do not print a “golf course,” “golf round,” “halfway house,” or “beverage cart” pounds-per-day row. Easy Ice’s golf and country club page names beverage carts, the halfway house, the bar, the pool, and tournament days, and it does not print a lb-per-player or lb-per-round factor. Count the ice each station actually uses. Do not invent a VenueIce lb-per-round, and do not average a cup ounce with an event-hall 2 into a house “golf lb.”

The sizing table has a country club / golf club / private club row. That row is the campus sum on ice machine for a country club: plated grill, cocktail or beer-and-wine lounge, and an on-site ballroom. This page is the daily-fee and municipal course. A private club that runs that campus stays on the country-club page even when the grounds include 18 holes.

A cocktail well with its own seat count stays on ice machine for a bar. An outside caterer who brings the outing’s ice stays on ice machine for catering. A plated dinner in a rented hall stays on ice machine for a banquet hall. Bin math for the service window stays on ice bin sizing.

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 a course well, a cart cooler, or a cleaning interval as allowed. Confirm electrical, plumbing, clearance, and sanitation with the people who inspect the building.

Who this is for

• Public, daily-fee, and municipal golf courses whose ice is a clubhouse snack bar or grill, a halfway house at the turn, and coolers that cart staff fill before a loop.
• Tournament and outing days on that same course, when the headcount is guests you can count and the ice is not already inside the cup line.
• Seasonal courses that peak in summer heat and then shut a machine down for winter.
• Courses on a well, where inlet pressure and whether the water is ice-making water come before the brand.

It is not a private-club campus with a grill, a 19th-hole lounge, and a ballroom. It is not a cocktail bar used alone. It is not a caterer’s van. It is not a lb per hole.

Published factors — and the missing round

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

Separate lines — do not stack the same golfer

• 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. The clubhouse and the halfway house are two stations. 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.
• 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. A burger that comes with a soda you already put on the ounce line stays on the ounce line.
• Cocktail seats are the bar line. 3 lb, or beer-and-wine 1 lb when that is the room. A municipal counter selling beer and soda in cups stays on the cup line. Do not stack 3 lb, or 1 lb, on those cups. The rush-bin worksheet for a real cocktail well is the bar guide.
• Cart ice is what staff loaded. GoFoodservice 10 lb × bags, or KaTom’s bag weight × bags with that page’s 20% once, or Chef’s Deal ~1 lb per 1 lb of beverages when you weighed the cans and did not weigh the ice. One of those. A round of golf is not the unit.
• Chest ice and glass ice are different uses only when they are different ice. Chef’s Deal’s cooling ice stays in the tub. Serving ice goes in the glass. If the cart chest only chills cans, it is the tub line. If staff scoop that same ice into cups, it is the cup line, and the chest is how the ice rode. Do not add the chest pounds to the cups.
• An outing uses one guest method. GoFoodservice event-hall 2 lb, or Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb, or Atlantic 1–1.5 lb. Guests already inside that total do not also get the daily-fee cup line. A caterer who arrives with their own ice is the catering worksheet, not a second headcount on this machine.
• 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 or on 10 × bags. Atlantic’s 15–25% or 25–30% belongs on an Atlantic line, once. Chef’s Deal’s hot-weather and direct-sun adders belong on their serving-ice worksheet. Do not put them on a 90/70 production cell, and do not multiply 20% by 20%.
• Hotel cooler adders stay on rooms. GoFoodservice 7–8 lb per room and KaTom’s +2 or +3 lb sit on the hotel 5 lb row. A cart is not a room. A tee time is not a room.

Worked peak Saturday — daily-fee course

Headcount and drink counts below are a planning assumption, not a turnstile reading and not a claim about any real course. One public course. One Saturday in July. The daily-fee tee sheet is open. There is no outing in this section. That day is later, and it is not inside these pounds.

Clubhouse snack bar. 200 fountain drinks. The cup is 16 oz. Method: Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice per 16 oz drink.

200 × 8 oz = 1,600 oz. 1,600 ÷ 16 = 100 lb. Chart +20% → 120 lb.

Halfway house. 80 drinks, same cup, and these are not the 200. Same 8 oz cell: 80 × 8 ÷ 16 = 40 lb. +20% → 48 lb.

Beverage carts. Staff load ice that stays in the chest around canned drinks. It is not scooped into the 200 or the 80. The load on this assumption is eight fills at 10 lb of ice each (a morning chest and a refill, across the carts they actually run). GoFoodservice packaged ice: 8 × 10 = 80 lb.

KaTom’s page says add 20% on bag weight × bags. 80 × 1.20 = 96 lb. The 96 replaces 80 if you chose KaTom. It is not 80 + 96. Kitchen Spot’s chart has no bag cell, so their 20% does not get a second pass on the chests.

Three lines, with Kitchen Spot’s 20% on the two cup lines and GoFoodservice’s bag cell left unbuffered:

120 + 48 + 80 = 248 lb.

With KaTom’s 20% on the bags instead: 120 + 48 + 96 = 264 lb. The 264 replaces 248. Do not multiply 248 × 1.20 again. Do not take GoFoodservice’s 10–15% hot-room sentence off 248. July heat 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.

Clubhouse, instead of Kitchen Spot 100 / 120 lb:

• GoFoodservice’s 12–16 oz band is also 8 oz per cup → the same 100 lb. Their calculator 20% is not on that ounce cell.
• Atlantic QSR 0.5 lb on 200 drinks: 100 lb. 1.0 lb: 200 lb. Seasonal reserve 15–25% only if you chose Atlantic. On the 0.5 end that is 100 × 1.15 = 115 lb and 100 × 1.25 = 125 lb. On the 1.0 end it is 200 × 1.15 = 230 lb and 200 × 1.25 = 250 lb. Outdoor 25–30% only if that counter is actually outdoors and you chose Atlantic: 100 × 1.25 = 125 lb and 100 × 1.30 = 130 lb on the 0.5 end; 200 × 1.25 = 250 lb and 200 × 1.30 = 260 lb on the 1.0 end. One reserve. Not Kitchen Spot’s 20% as well.
• Ice Machine Sales concession 2 lb per customer: 200 × 2 = 400 lb if those 200 drinks are 200 customers. If the register says 120 customers bought the 200 drinks, the concession line is 120 × 2 = 240 lb, and 240 replaces 400. Neither number adds to the 100 lb ounce line.
• Restaurant 1.5 lb on the 200 drinks: 300 lb, or 360 lb with Kitchen Spot’s 20%. That is a plated-cover row. These 200 are cups.

Halfway, same swaps at 80 drinks: Atlantic 40–80 lb; concession 160 lb if 80 drinks are 80 customers. Each replaces 40 / 48. None of them joins the clubhouse line.

Carts, instead of the counted 80 lb: Chef’s Deal ~1 lb ice per 1 lb of beverages, when you weighed the cans and did not weigh the ice. This assumption’s scale reads 10 lb of cans per fill, eight fills: still 80 lb. That match is the assumption. It is not a published 10 lb cart. A different scale replaces 80. It does not sit on top of 80.

Hotel 5 lb, or 7–8 lb with GoFoodservice’s cooler-filling room row, on 200 “guests”: 1,000 lb, or 1,400–1,600 lb. Those are room rows. They are not this Saturday.

Bin versus the morning cart fill

A 24-hour rating is not a stack of chests at 7 a.m. 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: the 80 lb of chest ice leaves in the first hour, before snack service. The 120 lb clubhouse cups are not all inside that hour. Lunch is a later window.

Manitowoc UYF-0190A on the NEO 140/190 family sheet, as stored on the directory page (this page did not re-open that PDF): 193 lb @ 70/50, 140 lb @ 90/70, 90 lb bin. A July clubhouse uses 90/70 when the sheet has it.

• One hour at 140: 140 ÷ 24 ≈ 5.8 lb. Shortfall on an 80 lb pull: 80 − 5.8 ≈ 74 lb. Atlantic’s restaurant example sets opening safety stock equal to that window’s make. Same shape: the usable target is the 80 lb pull.
• Nominal 90 lb plus about 5.8 lb of make ≈ 96 lb if the bin starts full and every pound scoops. That covers 80.
• Kitchen Spot’s 20% usable-loss reading: 90 × 0.80 = 72 lb stored. Plus about 5.8 lb ≈ 78 lb, which sits under 80. The sticker covers the morning load. The pile-up sentence does not. Atlantic’s warning applies: do not pick a machine whose stored ice merely equals the pull.

The 120 lb cup line, if it leaves across an 8-hour tee sheet after the carts are gone: 140 ÷ 24 × 8 ≈ 47 lb of arithmetic make. A bin that the carts emptied does not start that window full. 47 lb of make does not cover 120 lb of cups. If the machine has had time to refill the 90 lb bin before lunch, and lunch is only part of the 120, run the formula on that lunch number. This page does not invent the lunch split. If the 120 lb and the 80 lb leave in the same three hours, the pull is 200 lb. A 90 lb bin does not hold it. That Saturday is a modular head and a bin.

Manitowoc IYT0450A air-cooled half-dice, on the directory page: 490 lb @ 70/50, 378 lb @ 90/70. Head only. The D-570 storage figure used below 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.

• 378 lb @ 90/70 covers the 248 lb day and the 264 lb day as make. The 490 lb cell is the mild rating.
• Three hours at 378: 378 ÷ 24 × 3 = 47.25 lb, about 47 lb. A 200 lb combined window needs on the order of 200 lb usable. 543 lb nominal covers that. After a 20% pile-up loss: 543 × 0.80 ≈ 434 lb usable, which still covers 200. One D-570 does not take two 30″ heads. This page does not invent a double-wide bin.

Halfway house — its own cabinet

The 40 / 48 lb turn line does not have to live in the clubhouse bin. It does have to live somewhere that can hold a short surge.

Manitowoc UYF-0140A on the same NEO sheet citation: 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin. 100 lb @ 90/70 covers a 48 lb day. Two hours at 100 is about 8 lb of arithmetic make. A full 90 lb bin covers a 48 lb dump.

Hoshizaki KM-81BAK product page, opened 2026-10-26: up to 98 lb, built-in bin 38 lb (1.3 ft³). The HTML prints utility rates at 90/70 and does not print a 90/70 production cell. The KM-81/116 color spec, opened the same day, prints 98 lb at 70/50 and 76 lb at 90/70. The directory file matches that PDF.

• 76 lb @ 90/70 covers the 48 lb day as make. It does not cover the clubhouse 120 lb.
• Two hours at 76: 76 ÷ 24 × 2 ≈ 6.3 lb. Stored 38 + 6 ≈ 44 lb, under 48. After a 20% pile-up loss: 38 × 0.80 = 30.4 lb, plus about 6.3 lb ≈ 37 lb. The 38 lb bin is the turn limit. The 76 lb day is not.

Hoshizaki KM-161BAK product page, opened 2026-10-26: up to 156 lb, bin 78 lb. 90/70 production is not on that HTML. If you apply Kitchen Spot’s “15% or more” because the hot-room cell is missing: 156 × 0.85 ≈ 133 lb. That is arithmetic on their derate sentence, not a printed 90/70 cell. 133 covers 48. The 78 lb bin covers a 48 lb dump if it starts full. Do not treat 156 as the July number.

Scotsman HID525 product page, opened 2026-10-26: 500 lb @ 70/50, 380 lb @ 90/70, 25 lb hopper. Two hours at 380 is about 32 lb of arithmetic make. Hopper 25 + 32 ≈ 57 lb, which covers 48 if the machine is running. The hopper does not hold the morning 80 lb cart pull. GoFoodservice’s dispenser sentence is the reason to use it: anywhere someone other than staff can reach the ice. A halfway-house counter where golfers scoop an open bin is the case they are describing.

Tournament and outing days

Use this when the course hosts a counted outing. Planning assumption: the daily-fee sheet is closed. 120 guests. Hosted beverages. They are not the 200 snack drinks, and this section’s guest pounds are not inside the 248 lb Saturday.

GoFoodservice Event Hall / Banquet: 120 × 2 = 240 lb. Their quick-reference already includes 20%: 120 × 2 × 1.20 = 288 lb. The printed neighbor is 100 → 240 lb. 120 is not a column. Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb plus their chart 20% is the same 288 lb. One of those 288s. Adding them is the same guests twice.

Atlantic 1 lb is 120 lb. 1.5 lb is 180 lb. Outdoor or event-venue reserve 25–30% on 180 lb is 225–234 lb, and only if you chose Atlantic. That band replaces 288. It does not sit on it.

Carts on the outing. Two readings, and they are not both true:

• The chests chill cans, and the 288 lb is glass and food ice. The eight 10 lb loads are a second use: 80 lb, or 96 lb if you chose KaTom’s 20% on the bags. Guest ice plus chest ice is 288 + 80 = 368 lb, or 288 + 96 = 384 lb.
• The carts only carry ice that staff will scoop into glasses. That ice is already inside the 288 lb. The 80 lb is a bin spike at loading time. It is not a second 80 lb of production.

IYT0450A at 378 lb @ 90/70 covers 288 as a day’s make. It covers 368 by 10 lb. That is the exact-match warning: do not sell a head whose advertised capacity merely equals the day. It does not cover 384. It does not cover a day that is both the daily-fee 248 lb and this outing’s 288 lb (248 + 288 = 536 lb). Two air-cooled heads at 378 sum to 756 lb, which covers 536. The second head needs its own bin from the compatibility list.

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 covers 288 with a thin surplus and misses 368. Treat 90/70 as labeled if the sheet in your hands is the later one. Scotsman C0330MA-1 is 288 lb @ 90/70. That equals the buffered 288 lb cell. It is not a surplus, and it misses 368.

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 368 and 384. It is not a printed 90/70 cell.

An outing whose caterer brings the ice is the catering page. The course machine does not get those pounds. A plated dinner in a private-club ballroom is the country club banquet line, or the banquet hall page when the hall is the whole job. A tent on a public course can use the 2 lb cell above. It does not import the grill-plus-lounge-plus-ballroom sum.

Form factor

Cooling is a mechanical choice, not a round factor. See air-cooled vs water-cooled and undercounter vs modular vs countertop. Air-cooled is the default on a course well: potable ice-making water only. Water-cooled spends condenser water. GoFoodservice notes that some municipalities restrict water-cooled equipment. A 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 hot closet. Cube shape for the glass versus nugget for a chewable fountain is cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake. Two ice forms are two machines.

Current heads and cabinets

Figures are directory pages plus the sheets opened 2026-10-26 where the note says so. Street prices omitted. No new model file was added for this guide.

Two amp readings on KM-81BAK: the product page and the color spec print 2.4 A. A text extraction of the KM-81/116/161 instruction manual on 2026-10-26 printed 8.4 A on the KM-81BAK row of the electrical table (KM-161BAK on that extraction is 3.5 A, which matches the product page). We do not average 2.4 and 8.4. Read the data plate. The directory records 2.4 A.

Two production sentences on CU50: the product page and the production table on spec PDFs SIS-SS-CU-CU50_0118 and SIS-SS-CU-CU50_0826 print 65 lb @ 70/50 and 49 lb @ 90/70. The features line on the 0826 file says the machine produces 49 lb in 24 hours. We do not drop the 65 lb cell, and we do not average 65 and 49. July uses 49. The 65 is the mild rating.

Outdoor heat — the clubhouse, the turn, and the cart path

Manufacturer “up to” numbers are a 70°F air / 50°F water comparison. Use the 90/70 column when the sheet has one. A halfway house in the sun is not the 70/50 cell.

Operating ranges opened or cited for this page:

• KM-81BAK and KM-161BAK product pages, opened 2026-10-26: air 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, pressure 10–113 psig. Heat rejection 1,800 BTU/h (KM-81) and 2,800 BTU/h (KM-161). The instruction manual for that family says the appliance is not intended for outdoor use, that normal operating ambient stays 45–100°F, and that a climatic class 5 electrical test at 104°F (40°C) and 40% relative humidity does not replace that operating range. A shed at 105°F is outside the sheet.
• CU50 product page and the 0118 / 0826 spec tables: air 50–100°F, water 40–100°F, pressure 20–80 PSIG. The product page says approved for outdoor use. The spec sheets say UL approved for outdoor applications. The CU50 manual adds the conditions on that approval: provide shade, keep the cabinet dry, keep it from freezing, leave the stainless kickplate on outdoors, and do not drain onto the grounds or into a pool. It also says the machine functions best between 70 and 80°F. Those sentences are the outdoor rating. They are not a license to set a KM-81 on the same pad.
• GoFoodservice’s outdoor FAQ, same Sep 20, 2026 header: standard indoor machines are not rated for outdoor use; outdoor-rated undercounters, in their copy, run from approximately 45°F to 100°F. The word is approximately. CU50’s own air minimum is 50°F. We do not move CU50 down to 45 because a buying guide said approximately 45.
• NEO family sheet, as cited on the campground page: air 40–110°F, water 45–90°F, pressure 20–80 psi. This page did not re-open that PDF. The top of a range is not the 70/50 production cell.
• iT0450 PDF, as cited on that same page: air 40–110°F, water 40–90°F. This page did not re-measure it.
• KM-520 and CIM0430 outdoor limits stay on the installation page. The campground guide already records those manuals as not for outdoor use, with KM-520 air 45–100°F and CIM0430 air 50–100°F. This page does not reprint a different limit.

Cart coolers are not ice machines. They do not harvest. Chef’s Deal’s published cooler sentence, via the catering page, is 12 to 24 hours for standard insulated coolers. We do not invent a percent lost between the clubhouse and the 7th tee. Their hot-weather and direct-sun adders stay on their serving-ice worksheet. A chest parked in the sun is a reason to load it from a full bin and keep the lid on, not a reason to multiply the 248 lb Saturday by 1.40.

A remote condenser moves heat outside. The head stays indoors, on the line set that manual allows. This directory does not list a remote golf-course SKU. See remote condenser vs self-contained.

Course well water

Ice from the snack bar is tap water that froze. A course on a well is a water question before it is a brand question.

• Pressure. KM-81 and KM-161 product pages: 10–113 psig. CU50 spec tables: 20–80 PSIG. The NEO and iT0450 minimums cited on the campground page are 20 psi. A pump that sags under a Saturday fill can clear 10 and miss 20. The KM family manual says not to run the appliance below its minimum. The freezing-up page already ties low pressure and a clogged filter to a harvest that will not finish.
• Temperature. Hoshizaki’s pages top out at 90°F inlet water. CU50’s table tops out at 100°F. We do not assign a temperature to “well water,” and we do not average 90 and 100. Inlet above the printed maximum on the sheet you bought is outside the rating.
• Hardness. The CU50 manual says suspended solids can be filtered and dissolved minerals are not, and that those minerals concentrate in the reservoir as scale. That is why the product page mentions a water-quality sensor. A sensor is not a skipped descale. See filters and descalers.
• Filter. Use an ice-machine cartridge on the ice-maker inlet, not the soda gun. The filters page records Hoshizaki H9320-51 (4HC-H) at 21,000 gallons, 10–125 psi, 35–100°F, for Hoshizaki 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 treatment plant.
• Taste. Sulfur, iron, 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.

Drain fittings, because two Hoshizaki sentences disagree: the KM-81 and KM-161 product pages list a 3/4″ FPT outlet. The family instruction manual’s water-supply notice, in the 2026-10-26 extraction, says the drain outlet is 1/2″ FPT. We do not average them. Read the fitting on the cabinet.

Seasonal peaks and winterizing

Kitchen Spot’s rule is the busiest day. On a golf course that day is a hot Saturday, not a quiet Tuesday in November. Atlantic’s 15–25% seasonal reserve and 25–30% outdoor reserve apply only when you sized the line with Atlantic. They are not a third percent on the 248 lb Saturday, which already used Kitchen Spot’s 20% on the cups.

Ice Machine Sales’ c-store page says about two-thirds of bagged-ice sales fall between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The campground guide already treats that as a c-store sentence, not a production rating. A course that still sells ice in January uses the ice it sells. A course that locks the snack bar has a shutdown, not that winter bag band.

The published clean interval is a calendar on that model’s manual. A closed winter does not erase the clean you owe before the first tee sheet. Intervals already collected on how to clean stay there. We do not average them into a golf-course interval. Check with your local health department.

Off-season shutdown steps are on that model’s manual. Do not copy one cabinet’s drain cap onto another head.

• The KM-81/116/161 instruction manual says not to leave the appliance on during extended non-use or in sub-freezing temperatures, to install it where it stays above freezing, and to follow “Preparing the Appliance for Periods of Non-Use” — including draining the appliance if the air will go below 32°F. This page does not reprint those steps.
• The CU50 manual has its own winterizing section. The leaking water page already records a rubber cap under the reservoir in that book. That cap is that book. The same manual says damage from freezing is outside the warranty terms it states.

Do not leave an unheated turn shack trying to harvest below the air minimum on the sheet you bought: KM-81 and KM-161 45°F, CU50 50°F, NEO and IYT0450 40°F on the campground citations. The freezing-up page is the cold-ambient fault list. A frozen evaporator is a repair vs replace conversation, not a procedure this page prints.

What this page is not

• Not a lb-per-round chart. The charts we opened do not have one. The units are cups, counted chest ice, and a counted outing.
• Not a country-club campus. Grill, lounge, and ballroom summed as separate lines stay on ice machine for a country club. A private club with a golf course uses that page.
• Not a cocktail bar. 3 lb per seat and beer-and-wine 1 lb stay on ice machine for a bar when that well is the whole building, and on that page’s worksheet when the course actually pours cocktails.
• Not an off-site caterer. Commissary production, per-guest-per-hour serving ice, and ice the caterer hauls in stay on ice machine for catering.
• Not a banquet hall alone. Attendee math for a fixed room stays on ice machine for a banquet hall.
• Not the sizing table’s country-club row. That row points at the private-club sum. This page is the public course. Both sit under how to size and ice bin sizing.
• Not a hotel. 5 lb per room and the cooler-filling adders stay on ice machine for a hotel.
• Not a price list. Street prices omitted. Easy Ice’s page does not print a subscription dollar, and this guide does not invent one.
• Not a review. Easy Ice’s quotes on that golf URL are franchise and contractor comments, not golf-course reviews. This page does not use them. No scores and no borrowed stories about courses.
• 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; cocktail 3 lb; beer and wine 1 lb; extended events 2 lb; fountain ounces including 8 oz / 16 oz; hot-room 15% or more; size from peak days; bin pile holds 10–20% less than the printed pounds. No golf, round, halfway-house, or cart row (retrieved 2026-10-26).
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; Event Hall / Banquet 2 lbs per person; quick-reference cells already include 20% (100 → 240 lb on the event row); hotel 5 lbs per room and 7–8 lbs per room when cooler filling is allowed; 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; standard indoor machines not rated for outdoor use, with outdoor-rated undercounters described at approximately 45–100°F. No golf row. Header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026 (retrieved 2026-10-26).
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 about 3 lb per seat; catering or banquet 1–1.5 lb per attendee, increase for outdoor events; worksheet line Bagging or off-site use as a peak-day quantity; reserves 15–25% and 25–30%; bin formula. No golf row. Dated Jul 15, 2026 (retrieved 2026-10-26).
4. Ice Machine Sales, Sports & Entertainment Ice Machines — concession stands 2 lbs per customer; VIP suites 3 lbs per guest; athletic training 10 lbs per athlete; fitness 1 lb per member. No golf-course row (retrieved 2026-10-26).
5. Easy Ice, Ice Machines for Golf & Country Clubs — names beverage carts, the halfway house, the bar, the pool, and tournament days. No lb-per-player factor. Machine tiles print one lbs/day figure and no 70/50 versus 90/70 column. IM-50BAA-Q appears there at 50 lbs/day, which matches the directory’s “approximately 50 lb” with no condition split on the product HTML. The other tiles are SKUs this directory does not list; we do not adopt those pounds. Quotes on the page are not golf-course reviews and are not used here (retrieved 2026-10-26).
6. Hoshizaki, KM-81BAK product page — up to 98 lb, bin 38 lb, 17.75″ × 24″ × 39″, 115 V, 2.4 A, 15 A max fuse, 6.5 ft 5-15P, air 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, 10–113 psig, 1,800 BTU/h, 5.6 kWh and 22 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70, R290. 90/70 production not on the HTML (retrieved 2026-10-26). KM-81/116 color spec — 98 lb at 70/50, 76 lb at 90/70, 2.4 A (retrieved 2026-10-26). Instruction manual — not for outdoor use; normal ambient 45–100°F; climatic class 5 test note at 104°F does not replace that range; non-use section; extracted electrical table printed 8.4 A on the KM-81BAK row (retrieved 2026-10-26).
7. Hoshizaki, KM-161BAK product page — up to 156 lb, bin 78 lb, 23.75″ × 28″ × 39″, 115 V, 3.5 A, 15 A max fuse, 6.5 ft 5-15P, air 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, 10–113 psig, 2,800 BTU/h, 5.5 kWh and 22 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70, 3/4″ FPT outlet on the page. 90/70 production not on the HTML (retrieved 2026-10-26). The family manual’s drain sentence says 1/2″ FPT. We do not average the two outlets.
8. Scotsman, CU50 product page — 65 / 49 lb, 26 lb storage, 14.9″ × 22″ × 34.4″, 115/60/1, max fuse 15 A, approved for outdoor use, R290, 11.0 kWh and 29.8 gal per 100 lb (retrieved 2026-10-26). Spec PDFs 0118 and 0826 — production table 65 / 49; air 50–100°F, water 40–100°F, 20–80 PSIG; UL approved for outdoor applications. The 0826 features line says 49 lb. Installation manual — shade, keep dry, keep from freezing, kickplate stays on outdoors, do not drain onto the grounds; best at 70–80°F; winterizing section is that book (retrieved 2026-10-26).
9. Scotsman, HID525 product page — 500 / 380 lb, 25 lb hopper, 21.25″ × 24.38″ × 35″, 115/60/1, max fuse 15 A, 7.5 ft NEMA 5-15P, air or water condenser, figures shown are air-cooled, R290, 4.18 kWh and 12 gal per 100 lb (retrieved 2026-10-26).
10. Directory pages for heads this article did not re-measure: UYF-0190A 193 / 140 lb, 90 lb bin; UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin; 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. D-570 543 lb and the NEO / iT0450 ambient bands are the campground citations of those PDFs, not a new measurement.
11. KaTom packaged-ice and hotel cooler-adder sentences, and Chef’s Deal tub, cooler-hour, and weather-adder sentences, are used as already recorded on the campground page (2026-10-25) and the catering page (retrieved 2026-09-11). This page did not re-open those URLs. Existing VenueIce pages for the install and care limits this article does not reprint: how to size, ice bin sizing, country club, bar, catering, filters and descalers, how to clean, installation, freezing up.

If two sheets disagree, we say so and prefer the latest OEM page or PDF. On KM-81, the HTML does not print 76 lb @ 90/70; the color spec does; the manual extraction prints 8.4 A where the product page prints 2.4 A. On KM-161, the product page lists a 3/4″ outlet and the family manual’s notice says 1/2″. On CU50, the 0826 features line says 49 lb while the production table still prints 65 and 49. On CIM0430A, the directory flags 320 and 310 at 90/70. We do not average those pairs.