Ice machine for a movie theater / cinema concession

A movie theater or cinema concession stand is fountain soda and iced drinks in show-time bursts, plus, sometimes, a lobby bag merchandiser. Pre-feature and intermission empty the leftover in twenty minutes. The next house starts before the head has remade the pile. Putting Saturday’s cups on a restaurant 1.5 lb per guest seat count, or treating the lobby like a convenience store that bags ice all day, is how the well is dry when the 7:10 trailers roll — or how a 38 lb crescent leftover is asked to refill a 10 lb bag rack.

This is not the c-store page. A gas-station fountain runs all afternoon and often lives next to a bag plant. It is not the restaurant page. Covers assume plated water and an iced drink. It is not the smoothie blender page and not the food truck 115 V inverter page.

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

• Neighborhood duplex / art-house lobbies sizing staffed fountain cups and iced drinks from a published ounce or QSR row, then sizing the leftover for the pre-feature window.
• Multiplex concession lines that stack two or three show starts in the same fifteen minutes and need production and storage as separate numbers.
• Lobbies that also sell bagged ice in a merchandiser — that cube job is a second line. Count bags × bag weight. Do not invent a merchandiser SKU.

It is not a c-store bags-first + all-day fountain page. It is not a restaurant cover-count page. Blender ice stays on the smoothie worksheet. Mobile power stays on the food truck page. Ice Machines Sales’ gym / arena 2 lb concession row is already on the gym guide — we show it here as the closest published stand factor, not as a seat multiplier.

Published cinema / concession factors

Foodservice charts we opened do not publish a “pounds of ice per cinema seat” or “pounds per screening” line. Closest published rows are quick-service / fountain ounces for concession cups, Atlantic’s QSR 0.5–1.0 lb per customer when you only have a drink count, Ice Machines Sales’ sports-and-entertainment concession 2 lb per customer, and packaged ice = weight × bags if the lobby merchandises bags. Those are dealer/application rules of thumb, not a manufacturer warranty and not a lab measurement. We do not invent a house lb-per-seat in the middle.

IceMachinesPlus’s soda-fountain buying guide (Jul 23, 2026) names cinemas as a high-volume fountain application and works demand from drink count × ounces of ice, then a 20% buffer. That is the same cup method as Kitchen Spot / GoFoodservice / Memphis — not a new cinema factor.

The VenueIce sizing table now has a movie theater / cinema concession row. It still has no lb-per-seat cinema factor, because the charts we opened do not publish one. Use Kitchen Spot / GoFoodservice / Memphis oz-per-cup (or Atlantic’s cup × count / 0.42 lb weighted test) for fountain and iced drinks. Use Atlantic’s QSR 0.5–1.0 lb/customer only when you have a drink count and have not weighed a fill. Use Ice Machines Sales’ concession 2 lb/customer only as that sports/entertainment stand row — say which one you used. Bags stay on the c-store 10 lb × bags line if you actually bag. Size the leftover for the pre-feature / intermission window (ice bin sizing). Do not average 0.5 and 2.0 into a house “1.25 lb per ticket.” Do not copy restaurant 1.5 lb/guest onto every sold seat.

Separate lines — do not stack the same ticket

Fountain cups, a self-serve refill island, and lobby bags are not one stacked factor.

• Count cups when you have POS. Atlantic: where beverage counts exist, a cup-by-cup calculation is more precise than a per-customer estimate. Weigh a fill of each cup size you actually sell. IceMachinesPlus says the same: drink count, cup size, average ice fill, refills, and employee drinks.
• A sold seat is not a restaurant cover. Atlantic’s 1.5 lb restaurant row assumes plated service with water and an iced drink. An 8-screen Saturday that sells 1,600 tickets and 600 sodas has an ice load of 600 drinks, not 1,600 × 1.5.
• A ticket is not automatically a concession customer. Ice Machines Sales’ 2 lb per customer is the person buying at the stand. Do not multiply the entire house by 2. Do not add 2 lb on top of an ounce line for the same cup.
• Self-serve refills replace the staffed ounce row for those guests. Kitchen Spot / Light Soda 2–3 lb/person is the refill island. It does not sit on top of 8 oz / 16 oz for the same person.
• Bags are optional and separate. GoFoodservice’s packaged-ice line is 10 lbs × bags sold per day. Ice-O-Matic’s 2012 chart and Memphis Ice say weight per bag × bags sold — use 10 lb only when the bag on the rack is a 10 lb bag. Ice Machines Sales’ c-store summer band is 20–70+ bags. Count the bags this lobby actually moves.
• If the lobby buys bags wholesale and only merchandises them, the bagged production line is zero. You need a merchandiser, not a second cuber. We do not have merchandiser SKUs in this directory and we do not invent them.
• Smoothie / slush blender ice is the smoothie page. Kitchen Spot’s coffee/smoothie 2.5 lb/person stays on ice machine for a smoothie bar. A chewable fountain nugget is not a blend dump.
• Arena / stadium math is a different building. Ice Machines Sales’ 1,000–2,000 lb event-day FAQ and VIP 3 lb/guest stay on that sports page. A cinema lobby is show-block fountain, not ten stands around a bowl.

Cube, half-dice, crescent, nugget, and flake shape math lives on cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake. A KM-81BAK crescent leftover is a drink cabinet, not a 10 lb bag plant.

Production lb/24 hr is not the leftover

A 24-hour rating is not a bucket. Cinema ice is taken in short windows — the pre-feature rush, then intermission if the feature has one — not as 4 lb every hour for 24 hours. Two popular titles that start within fifteen minutes empty the same leftover. The next block starts before harvest has replaced the pile.

Atlantic’s sizing guide (Jul 15, 2026) puts it in one sentence: size the machine for a realistic peak day, then size the bin around the largest service period, because lb/24 hr is not the amount of ice the system can hold.

IceMachinesPlus’s soda-fountain page says the same split: production replaces ice throughout the day; dispenser / bin storage covers the rush. One cannot compensate indefinitely for a shortage of the other.

See ice bin sizing for the modular-head version of Atlantic’s rush formula (use during the window − theoretical make during the window + opening stock). That hourly split (24-hour rating ÷ 24) is arithmetic, not an OEM hourly guarantee. Harvest is cyclic. A 20-minute trailer block is a fraction of one harvest cycle on most cubers.

Kitchen Spot’s one- or two-day-a-week bin exception (church, event center, music venue) is not a daily cinema. A theater that runs seven days still has burst windows, but the leftover refills overnight between Saturdays only if Saturday is the only heavy day. Do not copy the church 200 lb maker / 700 lb bin pattern onto a multiplex that scoops every evening.

Hoshizaki’s current KM-161 and C-80 HTML pages do not print a 90/70 production cell, so we do not invent lb/hour of make on those cabinets.

Worked neighborhood duplex (fountain only)

Same peak-day method as the sizing page: count the load, pick a published factor, add the reserve the source uses. Staffed concession, no bags, no refill island.

Assumed house (label as assumption — use your POS): 2 screens × 120 seats = 240 seats. Saturday: 4 show blocks, both screens running (8 screenings). Occupancy 50% → 480 tickets. Fountain attach about 42% of tickets → ~200 fountain / iced drinks. Weigh the cups; we did not invent your fill.

• Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice / 16 oz drink: 200 × 8 oz = 1,600 oz ÷ 16 = 100 lb
• Kitchen Spot 10 oz ice / 20 oz drink: 200 × 10 oz = 2,000 oz ÷ 16 = 125 lb
• Kitchen Spot +20% on those ounce lines: about 120–150 lb
• GoFoodservice 8 oz / 12–16 oz cup: 100 lb
• GoFoodservice 12 oz / 16–24 oz cup: 200 × 12 oz = 2,400 oz ÷ 16 = 150 lb
• IceMachinesPlus 8 oz method on the same 200 drinks: 100 lb; their ~20% buffer → 120 lb
• Atlantic cafe 0.35–0.6 lb midpoint 0.5 on the same 200 drinks: 100 lb — same ballpark; do not add it on top of the ounce line
• Atlantic c-store weighted test 0.42 lb/transaction: 200 × 0.42 = 84 lb; +20% → about 101 lb
• Atlantic QSR 0.5 lb/customer: 200 × 0.5 = 100 lb; +20% → 120 lb
• Atlantic QSR 1.0 lb/customer: 200 × 1.0 = 200 lb; +20% → 240 lb
• Ice Machines Sales fountain-station band 50–100 lb/day: a small soda well, not 200 large cups on the high ounce line
• Ice Machines Sales concession 2 lb/customer on the same 200 drinks: 400 lb — their stand row; do not stack it on the 100–150 lb ounce band
• Restaurant 1.5 lb/guest on 240 seats: 360 lb — wrong method
• Restaurant 1.5 lb on 480 tickets: 720 lb — still the wrong method

The 100–150 lb Kitchen Spot ounce band is still in large-undercounter territory if the bin covers the pre-feature pull. A Hoshizaki KM-161BAK is 156 lb on the current product page with a 78 lb bin. A Manitowoc UYF-0140A is 137 / 100 lb with a 90 lb bin. A Manitowoc UYF-0190A is 193 / 140 lb in the same 90 lb cabinet — more make, not more stored ice when both houses start. A Hoshizaki KM-81BAK is 98 / 76 lb with a 38 lb bin. Hoshizaki’s own copy on that page is “small bars, hotel lobbies, and office break rooms.” It is not a two-screen Saturday fountain.

The bin, not the “up to 156 lb” headline, is the show-block constraint. If both screens start in the same 20-minute window and half of that 200-drink Saturday lands in the busiest block:

• Pre-feature pull: about 100 drinks. On the Kitchen Spot 10 oz / 20 oz line: 100 × 10 oz = 1,000 oz ÷ 16 = 62.5 lb in ~20 minutes
• KM-161BAK stored ice: 78 lb. The current HTML page does not print a 90/70 production cell, so we do not invent hourly make. On stored ice alone the 78 lb bin covers a 62.5 lb pull if it is actually full when the trailers start.
• UYF-0140A stored ice: 90 lb. Make during 20 minutes at the sheet’s 100 lb @ 90/70 is 100 ÷ 24 ≈ 4.2 lb/hour × 0.33 h ≈ 1.4 lb. On paper: ~91 lb against a 62.5 lb fountain-only pull.
• KM-81BAK stored ice: 38 lb. A 62.5 lb pre-feature already past the leftover.

Atlantic’s upper QSR band (200–240 lb after reserve) already sits on the 90/70 columns we have for those cabinets (UYF-0190A 140 lb; ICEU150HA 130 lb). If the stand actually lives at 1.0 lb/customer, that is a modular conversation, not a 38 lb leftover. Weigh the cups before you shop the high end of Atlantic’s QSR range.

Do not copy Kitchen Spot / Light Soda’s 2–3 lb self-serve / fast-casual line onto this 200-drink counter unless the soda is self-serve with refills. 200 × 2.5 = 500 lb is a different lobby. Do not copy Ice Machines Sales’ mid-size arena 1,000–2,000 lb FAQ onto a duplex.

Worked 8-screen multiplex (overlapping starts)

Assumed house (label as assumption): 8 screens, mixed 80–200 seat rooms. Saturday 1,600 tickets. Fountain attach about 38% → ~600 fountain drinks. Staffed wells, no bags yet.

• Kitchen Spot 8 oz ice / 16 oz drink: 600 × 8 oz = 4,800 oz ÷ 16 = 300 lb; +20% → 360 lb
• Kitchen Spot 10 oz ice / 20 oz drink: 600 × 10 oz = 6,000 oz ÷ 16 = 375 lb; +20% → 450 lb
• IceMachinesPlus 8 oz method: 300 lb; +20% → 360 lb — same article that names a busy cinema as a job that can outrun a 425 lb top-mount Chewblet they discuss (that Follett SKU is not in this directory; we cite the worked ounces, not the cabinet)
• Atlantic c-store example scaled from their 500-drink / 282 lb published target: 600 ÷ 500 × 282 ≈ 338 lb — their 0.42 lb weighted test plus their refill/loss and 20% reserve, stretched to 600 drinks. Prefer a cup test.
• Atlantic QSR 0.5 lb: 600 × 0.5 = 300 lb; +20% → 360 lb
• Atlantic QSR 1.0 lb: 600 lb; +20% → 720 lb
• Ice Machines Sales concession 2 lb on 600 stand customers: 1,200 lb — their entertainment-stand row; do not add it to 360
• Restaurant 1.5 lb on 1,600 tickets: 2,400 lb — wrong method

The 360–450 lb Kitchen Spot ounce band is past every undercounter 90/70 column in this directory (largest is UYF-0190A at 140 lb). IceMachinesPlus’s 500-drink / ~300 lb fountain target is the same class as Atlantic’s c-store example: a modular cube or nugget head (or a dispenser that keeps making ice), not a 38 lb KM-81 leftover.

Assumed overlap (label as assumption): 3 of 8 screens start within 15–20 minutes. About 120 drinks in that cluster (one-fifth of the 600-drink day, not a published attach rate).

• Cluster pull on the 10 oz / 20 oz line: 120 × 10 oz = 1,200 oz ÷ 16 = 75 lb in ~20 minutes
• Theoretical make on Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A at the 320 lb @ 90/70 cell we opened: 320 ÷ 24 ≈ 13.3 lb/hour × 0.33 h ≈ 4 lb. Atlantic’s formula: 75 used − 4 make = ~71 lb shortfall during the window, plus whatever opening stock you want sitting in the leftover when the trailers start. We do not invent a cinema opening-stock number. Plug in the pounds you actually want on hand — then compare to this directory’s 90 lb undercounter leftover or a modular bin on the head’s compatibility list.
• UYF-0190A 90 lb leftover covers one 75 lb cluster if it starts full. The next overlap, 40–90 minutes later, needs recovery the 90/70 column may not give you in a hot alcove.
• Atlantic says operations with intense rush or limited overnight recovery may need storage closer to 50–70% of peak-day demand. On a 360–450 lb ounce day that planning range is 180–315 lb of leftover — a B-300SF 300 lb application-capacity bin, not a 90 lb undercounter cabinet.

GoFoodservice’s cold-plate adder is 45% on top of the beverage calculation. Memphis / Ice-O-Matic’s is 50%. Only add it if the fountain actually uses a cold plate. Do not stack both.

Worked optional lobby bags (keep it off the fountain row)

Bagged ice is a second cube worksheet, not a fudge on the fountain row. GoFoodservice’s packaged-ice line is 10 lbs × bags sold per day. Ice-O-Matic’s 2012 chart and Memphis Ice say weight per bag × bags sold.

Same 200-drink duplex fountain (120 lb after Kitchen Spot 8 oz +20%), plus a lobby merchandiser.

Peak-day totals if you add the lines (do not average them into one brochure number):

• Duplex fountain 120 + 10 bags (100) = 220 lb that day, two jobs
• Multiplex fountain 360 + 20 bags (200) = 560 lb that day, two jobs

The 70-bag summer line alone is already past Scotsman C0330MA-1 288 lb, Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A 320 lb on the PDF we opened, and Manitowoc IYT0450A 378 lb AHRI. A 70-bag plant is a larger head than this directory carries, two heads, or wholesale bags in a merchandiser.

If the lobby buys bagged ice wholesale and only merchandises it, the bagged production line is zero. Ice Machines Sales list bagged-ice merchandisers in a 100–600 lb storage band on their c-store page. We do not have merchandiser SKUs in this directory and we do not invent them.

Atlantic’s seasonal-restaurant reserve band is 15–25%; their outdoor / highly variable band is 25–30%. IceMachinesPlus used ~20% on the fountain ounce example. Ice Machines Sales treat bagged ice as seasonal. Pick the reserve the source that matches the line uses. Do not stack every chart on both rows.

Concession-alcove heat derate

Manufacturer “up to” numbers are a 70°F air / 50°F water comparison point. The machine that lives next to a popcorn kettle, a butter warmer, a soda ice-bath, or an unconditioned back hall is not in that room.

• Kitchen Spot: if the machine is in a 90° kitchen or bakery with ~70° water, “you can expect less ice production by as much as 15% or more.” Ice-O-Matic, Scotsman, and Manitowoc “all publish output for various models at different ambient temperatures.”
• Atlantic: a hot, poorly ventilated room is not the DOE test. Do not pick a machine whose advertised capacity exactly equals peak demand with no margin.
• GoFoodservice: listed capacities are under ideal conditions; “actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot environments.”
• IceMachinesPlus: published maximums are measured under specified test conditions; actual production can fall as ambient and incoming-water temperatures rise.

Cited 70/50 → 90/70 drops on sheets we opened (air-cooled unless noted):

Compare the 90/70 column to the Saturday target when the sheet has one. A 400 lb “up to” head that makes 288 lb in a 90° popcorn alcove is a 288 lb machine that evening.

Air-cooled cabinets also dump heat into that hole. KM-520MAJ heat rejection is 7,000 BTU/h on the current product page. KM-161BAK is 2,800 BTU/h. KM-81BAK is 1,800 BTU/h. C-80BAK is 1,400 BTU/h. NEO U-140 / U-190 family sheet: 2,150 average / 2,600 peak. CIM0430A sheet: 5,100 BTU/h. Those BTUs become room cooling load on an air-cooled cabinet next to a kettle. See air-cooled vs water-cooled.

Form factor: staffed fountain vs chewable soda vs optional bags

Atlantic, GoFoodservice, Kitchen Spot, Ice Machines Sales, and IceMachinesPlus all draw the same split: undercounter when demand is low-to-moderate and the built-in bin covers the pull; modular head + bin (or a dispenser that keeps making ice) when production is high or storage has to be chosen separately; nugget / cubelet for chewable fountain soda; hard cube for bags.

Undercounter cube is one 115 V cabinet with a built-in bin. HVACDirect calls undercounter machines “ideal for offices, cafes, and smaller establishments with constrained space.” Light Soda’s published bands put under 300 lb/day in compact undercounter / countertop territory and 300–600 lb/day in “mid-range undercounter or small modular.” GoFoodservice’s undercounter band is 50–500 lb/day make with 7–250 lb built-in storage; their “typical commercial output” sentence for standard bar/restaurant use is 100–250 lb per day. Ice Machines Sales put c-store undercounters at 50–350 lb/day. This directory’s largest undercounter bin is 90 lb. Once the pre-feature pull needs more stored ice than that, you have left undercounter class even if a brochure still says “under 300 lb/day.” Form-factor background: undercounter vs modular vs countertop.

Modular cube or nugget head + bin is how you get Atlantic’s service-window leftover on a 300–450 lb multiplex day. Production and storage are separate SKUs. Order the bin (and any top kit) from the head’s compatibility list. GoFoodservice’s modular line starts at 250 lb/day. Ice Machines Sales’ concession FAQ points high-volume drink service at modular + storage bin and self-serve areas at countertop dispensers (100–500 lb/day). The smallest modular cube heads in this directory are the 400–550 lb class. That is a back-room plant, often hardwired, not a 15″ plug-in under the soda.

Nugget / cubelet for fountain, hard cube for bags. GoFoodservice assigns cubelet / nugget to “fountain drinks and soda stations” and crescent / half-cube to general beverage and bagging. Atlantic’s ice-type table assigns nugget to soft drinks and half cube to fountain / iced coffee. IceMachinesPlus: dice and half-dice hold form in a standard fountain cup; nugget / cubelet is the chewable program — confirm the dispenser manufacturer’s approved pairing. A cocktail-bar gourmet is the wrong plant for either job.

Flake (Hoshizaki F-330BAK) is a salad-bar / seafood cabinet on Hoshizaki’s own page. It is not a fountain cube and it is not a bagging cube.

IceMachinesPlus names several dispenser-mount cinema / c-store heads (Manitowoc IB-series, Follett Chewblet, remote cubelet). Those SKUs are not in this directory. We do not add them as shopping rows. The ounce math on that page still applies to the cabinets we do carry.

Current undercounters and a small fountain dispenser (OEM sheets)

Figures are manufacturer ratings. Full citations live on each directory page. Street prices omitted. These cabinets are concession-alcove and small-lobby tools unless you also have a dump bin or a second plant for bags.

A Scotsman CU0415 (60 / 40 lb, 36 lb bin, 15″) is a garnish / office cube cabinet. It is not a show-block fountain plant.

Current modular heads (OEM sheets)

Pair the head with a bin from the compatibility list, not with an undercounter leftover. Fountain nugget and bagging cube are different SKUs if you run both.

C-80BAK, KM-81BAK, and KM-161BAK are R290 on those current Hoshizaki pages.

Hoshizaki bins already opened on the restaurant / c-store / deli pages (application capacity = volume × 30 lb/ft³ on each page; height includes 6″ legs; top kits sold separately):

A 200 lb-class head is not in this directory today. Do not assume a 22″ head drops onto a 30″ or 44″ lid without the top kit on the current sheet.

Drain, air, filter, cleaning (concession-alcove realism)

Many cinema ice rooms are a hot hole: one circuit behind the soda, a popcorn kettle dumping heat, a door that opens onto the lobby, and a louver someone boxed in. Read the sheet before the bid.

• 115 V cord-and-plug on the compact undercounters above (C-80, KM-81, KM-161, UYF-0140/0190). A KM-520MAJ is a hardwired 115 V / 20 A-class head. CIM0430A’s cited sheet is 115 V, 11.0 A min. circuit, 15 A fuse — confirm cord vs junction box on the current PDF. HID525 is a corded 115 V dispenser on the cited PDFs. Two cabinets plus a fountain on one alcove circuit is an electrician question.
• Drain. Gravity from the machine (KM-81 / KM-161 / KM-520: 3/4″ FPT on those current pages; C-80: 1/2″ FPT; NEO family sheet: 1/2″ FPT ice-making drain and 1/2″ FPT bin drain). Hoshizaki accessory HS-5061 is the listed drain pump on AM/C/KM compact units. Melt water is not optional. We are not writing a health-department letter.
• Air / alcove. Front-in / front-out cabinets (C-80BAK, KM-81BAK, KM-161BAK) exist for tight holes. They still reject heat into a room Kitchen Spot already called a 90° kitchen. Modular heads still need the clearance on the sheet (CIM0430A PDF: 6″ intake and exhaust). Use the 90/70 column if the sheet has one; omit it on KM-161 / C-80 / KM-520 HTML.
• Filter. Ice-machine filter, not “the building’s drinking fountain cartridge.” Fountain cubers use the filter those sheets specify. See filters and descalers.
• Water pressure. Hoshizaki compact and KM-520 pages list about 10–113 psig. Manitowoc NEO and the CIM0430 sheet list 20–80 psi. Too little pressure and harvest fails.
• Cleaning. Follow the clean/sanitize interval on the machine sheet. This is not a service recipe and not health-code legal advice. See how to clean.
• Do not use a household countertop nugget machine as if it were NSF commercial equipment unless the listing says it is.

What this page is not

• Not a convenience-store bags-first + all-day fountain page. C-store ounce math overlaps. The 20–70 summer bag plant and all-afternoon well stay on the c-store guide. A cinema sizes the leftover for show blocks, not for a 4 p.m. gas-station pull.
• Not a restaurant guest-factor page. Atlantic / Kitchen Spot 1.5 lb/guest and GoFoodservice restaurant 2 lb/person stay on the restaurant guide. Do not multiply seats or tickets by 1.5 when you have a drink count.
• Not a smoothie / juice blender page. Kitchen Spot 2.5 lb/person and weighed blend dumps stay on the smoothie guide.
• Not a food-truck power page. Inverter, tank, and drain-can constraints stay on the food truck guide. A cinema alcove is building power.
• Not a gym. Member drinks, trainer packs, and ice baths stay on the gym guide. The concession 2 lb stand row on this page is a cinema choice only when you picked it instead of ounces.
• Not a stadium. VIP 3 lb per guest, an event-day training room, and a concession customer count summed as departments stay on ice machine for a stadium. A cinema show block is not that campus.
• Not a country-club pool snack. Fountain ounces here are a cinema show block. A club halfway house or pool stand is ice machine for a country club.
• Not a VenueIce lb-per-seat cinema factor. Published starting points we opened are Kitchen Spot / GoFoodservice / Memphis oz-per-cup, Atlantic cup × count / QSR 0.5–1.0 lb/customer, IceMachinesPlus drink × oz + ~20%, Ice Machines Sales concession 2 lb/customer, and 10 lb × bags if you bag. We show the methods. We do not invent 0.4 lb ice per seat and we do not average 0.5 and 2.0.
• Not a price list. Street prices omitted.
• Not a review. No scores, no invented “we iced N Friday nights with this cabinet.”
• Not a dispenser-mount catalog. IceMachinesPlus cinema-named IB / Follett / remote-cubelet SKUs are not in this directory. We do not invent them.

Sources

1. The Kitchen Spot, Ice Machines: Sizing for Application — convenience store / QSR / drive-through 5 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 16 oz ice per 10 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24 / 32 oz drink; restaurant 1.5 lbs per guest; self-service 2 to 3 lbs per person; table marked +20% for safe margin; 90° kitchen or bakery / ~70° water can cut make by 15% or more; bin usually 10–20% larger than daily make; one- or two-day-a-week bin exception (church / event center / music venue); multiple machines when ice types differ (retrieved 2026-09-19; same article already cited on sibling venue pages).
2. Atlantic Store Equipment, Commercial Ice Machine Sizing Guide — quick-service restaurant 0.5–1.0 lb per customer, adjusted for drink size, refill policy, and takeout volume; café 0.35–0.6 lb per iced beverage; full-service about 1.5 lb per customer; convenience-store fountain = cup size × peak-day drink count; worked 500-drink example (500 × 0.42 lb = 210 + 25 refill/loss + 20% → 282 lb, shop ~300); cup-by-cup beverage method when POS counts exist; production ≠ storage; size the bin around the largest service period; reserves 15–25% (seasonal) and 25–30% (outdoor / highly variable); bagging operations may need storage closer to 50–70% of peak-day demand; nugget assigned to soft drinks, half cube to fountain. No cinema lb/seat row on the page we opened. Dated Jul 15, 2026 (retrieved 2026-09-19; already cited on restaurant / c-store / deli pages).
3. IceMachinesPlus, 7 Best Ice Machines for Soda Fountains and Beverage Service — size from drink count × ice fill, then a buffer; worked 500 drinks × 8 oz = 250 lb, ~20% → about 300 lb/day; production replaces ice through the day, dispenser storage covers rushes; names cinemas with c-stores and drive-throughs as high-volume fountain jobs; notes a 425 lb top-mount Chewblet “may be insufficient for a busy cinema” (that SKU is not in this directory). Dated July 23, 2026 (retrieved 2026-09-19).
4. Ice Machines Sales, Sports & Entertainment Ice Machines — concession stands 2 lbs per customer; FAQ repeats “about 2 lbs of ice per customer served”; VIP suites / boxes 3 lbs per guest; mid-size arena with concessions and a training room “typically needs 1,000–2,000 lbs per event day”; countertop dispensers 100–500 lb/day; modular 500–2,000+ lbs/day for high-volume drink service (retrieved 2026-09-19; same page already cited on the gym guide).
5. Ice Machines Sales, Convenience Store & Gas Station Ice Machines — bagged ice 20–70+ bags/day summer, 10–30 winter; fountain station 50–100 lb/day; self-serve 1 lb per customer; merchandisers 100–600 lb storage; undercounters 50–350 lb/day (already cited on the convenience-store guide).
6. GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — restaurant 2 lbs per person; quick-service cups same as convenience store (5 / 8 / 12 oz ice per 7–12 / 12–16 / 16–24 oz cup); packaged ice 10 lbs × bags sold per day; cold plates 45% more; cubelet / nugget for fountain; modular 250–2,500 lb/day; undercounter 50–500 lb/day, “typical commercial output 100–250 lbs per day for standard bar/restaurant use”; actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot rooms. Live article header Last updated: Sep 3, 2026 on the sibling-page transcription (retrieved 2026-09-19).
7. Memphis Ice, What Size Ice Machine Do I Need for My Business? — convenience-store beverage 6 oz / 12 oz, 10 / 20, 16 / 32; cold plate 50% more; packaged ice = weight per bag × bags sold (already cited on the convenience-store guide).
8. Ice-O-Matic, Global Product Guide, Part 6203, printed 07-12 — same convenience-store beverage oz line as Memphis Ice; package ice = weight per bag × bags sold. 2012 reprint (already cited on the convenience-store guide).
9. Light Soda On Tap, How Many Pounds of Ice Does a Restaurant Need Per Day? — fast-casual 2 to 3 lb per customer; full-service 1.5–2 lb per customer per meal service; form-factor bands under 300 / 300–600 / 600+ lb/day. Dated June 4, 2026 (already cited on the restaurant / pizzeria / deli pages).
10. HVACDirect, Commercial Ice Machine Buying Guide — restaurant 1.5–2 lbs. per customer; undercounter “ideal for offices, cafes, and smaller establishments with constrained space” (same article already cited on restaurant / office / deli pages).
11. Hoshizaki, KM-81BAK product page — 98 lb, 38 lb bin, 17.75″ × 24″ × 39″, 115 V, 2.4 A, 1,800 BTU/h; “small bars, hotel lobbies, and office break rooms” (already cited on that directory page).
12. Hoshizaki, KM-161BAK product page — 156 lb, 78 lb bin, 23.75″ × 28″ × 39″, 115 V, 3.5 A, 2,800 BTU/h (already cited on that directory page).
13. Hoshizaki, C-80BAK product page — 92 lb, 27 lb bin, 14.875″ × 22.625″ × 33.5″, 115 V, 2.8 A, 1,400 BTU/h on that family (already cited on that directory page).
14. Manitowoc, NEO 140/190 family sheet — UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb; UYF-0190A 193 / 140 lb; 90 lb bin; 26″ × 28.50″ × 38.50″ on 6″ legs; 115 V, 5 A / 6 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft 5-15P; 2,150 / 2,600 BTU/h (sheet 6501D 6/22; already cited on those directory pages).
15. Hoshizaki, KM-520MAJ product page — ~556 lb, 22″ × 27.375″ × 28″, 115 V hardwire, 10.6 A, 20 A max fuse, 7,000 BTU/h, compatible B-250–B-1300 (already cited on that directory page).
16. Ice-O-Matic, CIM0430/0435/0436 spec PDF — CIM0430A 435 / 320 lb (already cited on that directory page).
17. Ice-O-Matic, GEM0450 spec PDF — GEM0450A 464 / 354 lb air; GEM0450W 508 / 429 lb; 21″ wide (already cited on that directory page).
18. Rewonline, Scotsman C0330MA-1 listing — 400 lb @ 70/50, 288 lb AHRI @ 90/70 (already cited on that directory page).
19. URI, IYT0450A listing — 490 lb/day; directory page already cites 378 lb AHRI @ 90/70 (already cited on that directory page).
20. Manitowoc, RNP0320 spec — 308 / 236 lb (already cited on that directory page).
21. Scotsman, HID525 product page — 500 / 380 lb, 25 lb hopper, 21.25″ × 24.38″ × 35″ (already cited on that directory page).
22. Hoshizaki, B-300SF and B-500SF product pages — 300 / 500 lb application capacity; 22″ / 30″; top kits sold separately (already cited on the c-store / restaurant / deli pages).
23. Existing VenueIce pages: how to size, ice bin sizing, cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake, undercounter vs modular vs countertop, filters and descalers, how to clean, convenience store (all-day fountain + bags), restaurant (1.5 lb/guest), smoothie bar (blender ice — different job), food truck (mobile power), gym (concession 2 lb stand row).
24. Directory pages already citing the same OEM language: C-80BAK, KM-81BAK, KM-161BAK, UYF-0140A, UYF-0190A, ICEU150HA, HID525, RNP0320A, GEM0450A, KM-520MAJ, CIM0430A, C0330MA-1, IYT0450A, CU0415, F-330BAK.

If two sheets disagree, we say so and prefer the latest OEM page or PDF.