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Author Topic: Ice Machine - Pounds Per Day Requirements? Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-11-2003 12:13 AM                     If you get either a Manitowac or a Scotsman, GEMLINE makes a full line of water pump rebuild kits if you want to rebuild the pumps yourself. Many refrigeration companies service these brands & stock parts.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-11-2003 02:45 AM                       Barry, with a shaved-ice machine you can also serve sno-cones. A very low-cost, high-profit item. Justin, you'll go through ice very quickly, even with a small theatre. When I managed the Sky-Vue, we had two big Scotsman units with bins that went nearly all the way to the floor. Whenever we had a big crowd, we would run them both out of ice before the night was over! Then we made a mad dash for the convenience store.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-11-2003 11:53 AM                        quote: ...from Justin: What about the economics of commercially-sold bagged ice versus the investment and wear and tear of an ice machine? Does an ice machine make sense for every drive-in theatre? Absolutely! A 10 pound bag retails up here for about a buck fifty, not including any sales taxes. That works out to about $90 worth of ice to fill 600 pound bin once. Add that to your time and vehicle expenses & you can buy a really nice ice machine pretty darned fast! Even a decent Manitowoc can be found in the $2000 range, not counting installation costs. ... not to mention that the cheap part of you will go nuts watching unused ice melt & go down the drain! ... though, watering the salamanders is kinda creative...  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-11-2003 08:58 PM                        I *hate* shaved ice in soft drinks. I will go out of my way to avoid takeout places that use shaved ice, even if their food is good. Trivial, yes, but there you have it.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-11-2003 09:26 PM                     A third option is crushed ice, aka nuggets. I had a Scottsman at one theater that did nuggets. It sat next to a Hoshizaki cuber that I never had to work on for five years. No, wait. I had to replace a circuit board once. The Scottsman was replaced with an identical model after about nine years of use.  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-12-2003 02:18 AM                     From the Superior Products catalog: Daily Usage Restaurant ............. 5 lbs. per seat or 1.7 lbs per customer Fast Food .............. 7.4 lbs. per seat or .9 lbs. per customer They don't have references for cinemas, but this could be a pretty good reference point. The catalog has heads that will produce anywhere from 80 lbs. per day to 1880 lbs. per day and carry Scotsman, Manitowac, and Hoshizaki.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-12-2003 06:50 AM                        Hoshizaki is a great ice machine. Mine is 12 years old now ... and I've NEVER had to have it repaired.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-12-2003 02:54 PM                        quote: Daily Usage Restaurant ............. 5 lbs. per seat or 1.7 lbs per customer Fast Food .............. 7.4 lbs. per seat or .9 lbs. per customer Yah... that might be a bit on the high side, & scaled for a full-time operation. Granted, we're in the Northwest, so Summertime heat isn't as large a factor as it might be elsewhere... but we can put 850 cars in this place & our 600 pounder does the job fine, even in Summer. A Manitowoc has such a good recovery rate that seeing the bin go down by half is unusual around here, even on busy nights.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-12-2003 04:56 PM                     Well, Manitowoc did build a nice icemaker. What do you expect? That factory was within walking distance from where I lived in Manitowoc, Wisconsin as a teen-ager. Edit: Seriously, of all the people who I know in the food service industry, I only had one person say the Manitowoc cuber was no good. It died after 5 years of service. I should add this: The reason it died was because there was no water filter on the machine, and the water ruined the evaporator plate. [ 01-12-2003, 08:31 PM: Message edited by: Paul G. Thompson ]  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-12-2003 07:46 PM                        quote: from Paul T: Well, Manitowoc did build a nice icemaker... We (Manitowoc) built cranes, too. BIG ones at that!... Yah... it was a real surprise the first time I saw the name of my ice maker on one huge excavator out here!  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-12-2003 08:35 PM                     Jack, some of the drag lines and cranes Manitowoc built had crawlers big enough where it took two tractor trailer rigs hogging three lanes of a freeway to move.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-13-2003 02:12 AM                        Yah... I was going to ask you if they had some creative way to move them or if they actually built them "in place"... geez, what monsters!  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-20-2003 09:00 PM                     Barry, are you taking progress photos?  |  IP: Logged

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