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Ice machine for a bed-and-breakfast (inn / guest pantry)

Updated 2026-10-29. Independent guide — not a dealer quote.

A bed-and-breakfast, for this page, is a small inn of about 4–15 rooms with ice in a guest pantry, a breakfast kitchen, or a hallway. Charts we opened do not print a bed-and-breakfast, inn, or “lb per guest room at a B&B” row. The published lodging row is the hotel 5 lb line. Breakfast iced coffee and juice are a cup count. A garden party or a small reception is an event line, and only for people who are not already the occupied rooms.

Putting a 12-room inn on an 80-room hotel ice-room worksheet, or parking a 400 lb hardwired head in a hallway because a Saturday tea might happen, is how the inn buys a machine the pantry cannot hold — or how the bin is empty at check-in.

The sizing table has no bed-and-breakfast cell. Guest-floor dispensers for a full hotel stay on ice machine for a hotel. Counted iced drinks stay on ice machine for a coffee shop. A plated dinner for a rented room stays on ice machine for a banquet hall and ice machine for a wedding venue. Bin math for a short 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 hallway scoop bin, a dispenser, or a cleaning interval as allowed. Confirm electrical, plumbing, clearance, and sanitation with the people who inspect the building.

Who this is for

  • Owners of small inns and B&Bs (about 4–15 rooms) deciding what to put in a guest pantry, breakfast kitchen, or hallway.
  • Guest ice buckets filled at check-in or through the evening, and a breakfast of iced coffee, iced tea, or juice that actually gets ice.
  • Occasional small events — a tea, a reunion, a reception in the parlor — that are not a weekly banquet hall.
  • Quiet placement near guest rooms, a 115 V receptacle, a drain, and water that may be a well.

It is not an 80-room guest floor. It is not a restaurant cover count. It is not an office break room, though a compact cabinet can look like one.

Three lines — do not stack the same person

Line What to count What it is not
Guest buckets Occupied rooms on the peak night, on a published lodging row Keys on the door for rooms that are empty. A hotel catering pound
Breakfast drinks Iced cups you actually pour — coffee, tea, juice with ice A glass of juice with no ice. A pastry. The same cup counted again as “1.5 lb per guest”
Small event Outside guests, or a measured tub, on a catering or event-hall row The inn’s own guests already counted at 5 lb per room

A guest who takes a bucket at 5 p.m. and an iced coffee at 8 a.m. is on both the room line and the cup line. Those are different uses, and the hotel articles treat breakfast as its own demand center. A guest who then sits in the parlor for the inn’s own reception is already the room line. Adding 1.5 lb of catering on that same person counts them twice. Ice for a punch bowl you can weigh is a measured extra, not a second headcount.

Published factors — and the missing inn row

These are dealer and buyer-guide rules of thumb, not a manufacturer warranty and not a lab measurement of your house. Pick one method per line.

Line Factor What the source is talking about
Bed-and-breakfast / inn No row Kitchen Spot’s sizing chart and GoFoodservice’s buying guide (header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026). Neither names a bed-and-breakfast, an inn, or a lb-per-B&B-room cell. Opened 2026-10-29. KaTom’s hotel section and Ice Machine Sales’ hotel page, same open, also have no inn row.
Guest buckets Kitchen Spot hotel guest ice 5 lbs per room. Chart add 20% Lodging row. Work occupied rooms on the peak night.
Guest buckets GoFoodservice Hotel/Lodging guest ice 5 lbs per room. 7–8 lbs per room when cooler filling is allowed The 7–8 lb row replaces 5 lb. Do not add it on top. Quick-reference Hotel (5 lbs/room) cells already include 20%: 50 rooms → 300 lb, 100 → 600. No 8-room or 12-room cell.
Guest buckets KaTom 5 pounds per room per day, plus another 2 or 3 pounds if guests fill coolers The +2 or +3 replaces a second pass over the same 5 lb. Prose says add 20 percent. The table header is Guidelines (+20% for Safety). Hotel rooms: 100 → 600 lb, which is 100 × 5 × 1.20. No 8-room column. dateModified 2026-09-14. Opened 2026-10-29.
Guest buckets Ice Machine Sales approximately 5 lbs per occupied room per day. Table: Hotel Guest Ice 5 lbs per room Their worked example is 200 rooms at 70% occupancy = 700 lb of guest ice (200 × 0.7 × 5). That example does not print a second 20%. Hotel Catering 1 lb per person. Conference Events 2 lbs per person.
Guest buckets Atlantic hotel buyer’s guide, Jul 29, 2026: about five pounds per occupied guest room, then add breakfast, bar, restaurant, and other centers, then a reserve Their 150-room example uses 15% on a sum that already includes an 80 lb breakfast cell. That 80 lb is their example, not a B&B breakfast factor. Do not paste it onto 8 rooms.
Breakfast iced drinks Atlantic café 0.35–0.6 lb per iced beverage, already extracted on the coffee shop page from the Jul 15, 2026 sizing guide Count the cups. A juice with no ice is zero. This page did not re-open that sizing URL.
Breakfast, blender-heavy Kitchen Spot coffee/smoothie 2.5 lbs per person A smoothie counter. A pour-over iced coffee is the cup line above. Do not stack 2.5 on 0.5 for the same drink.
Small event Kitchen Spot hotel catering 1 lb per person, general catering 1.5 lb, extended events 2 lb. Chart add 20% Outside guests, or a measured extra. One row.
Small event GoFoodservice event hall / banquet 2 lbs per person. Catering service 1.5 lbs per person. Event calculator cells already include 20% (100 → 240 lb) No 20-person cell. Do not add a second 20% onto a cell that already has it.
Small event Ice Machine Sales conference events 2 lbs per person and hotel catering 1 lb per person Same boundary. Do not stack 2 on 1 for the same guest.
Hot room Kitchen Spot: a ~90° room and ~70° water can cut make by 15% or more Use this when the only number you have is a mild-condition or “approximately” rating. Do not stack it on a 90/70 cell you already chose.
Hot room GoFoodservice: listed capacity may be 10–15% lower in a hot room Same rule. A 90/70 cell is already the hot column.
Bin Kitchen Spot: expect about 10–20% less than the printed bin pounds, because the mound trips the shutoff Already cited on ice bin sizing from this article (retrieved there 2026-09-12). The chart excerpt opened on 2026-10-29 did not reprint that paragraph. An inn that turns ice every occupied night is not their one-or-two-days-a-week exception.
Who may touch the ice GoFoodservice: a dispenser anywhere someone other than staff can reach the ice A hallway guests open. A breakfast kitchen where only the innkeeper scoops can be a bin.

Sixteen fluid ounces is 1 lb. That conversion is arithmetic.

Worked 8-room Saturday

Sold out. Guests get buckets. Nobody fills a cooler. No outside party. Breakfast is one iced coffee per occupied room — an example cup count, not a published “one drink per room” factor. Juice without ice adds nothing.

Rooms, pick one 5 lb source, then one buffer.

  • 8 × 5 = 40 lb on Kitchen Spot, GoFoodservice, KaTom, Ice Machine Sales, and Atlantic’s occupied-room line
  • Kitchen Spot +20%: 48 lb
  • The same 1.20 that GoFoodservice and KaTom print on their 50- and 100-room cells is 48 lb. That is arithmetic. Neither chart prints an 8-room cell. Do not add Kitchen Spot’s 20% on top of a cell you already treated as buffered
  • Cooler filling, instead of 5 lb: GoFoodservice 7–8 lb is 56–64 lb. KaTom’s extra 2 or 3 lb on the 5 lb base is the same 56 or 64 lb. Do not add 7–8 on top of 5

Breakfast cups, Atlantic’s band, no second 20% unless you label the stack:

  • 8 × 0.35 lb = 2.8 lb
  • 8 × 0.5 lb = 4 lb
  • 8 × 0.6 lb = 4.8 lb

Room line at 40 lb plus the 0.5 lb cups: 44 lb. Room line at Kitchen Spot’s 48 lb plus those cups: 52 lb. The cups were not inside the 5 lb.

How the small cabinets sit on 40, 48, and 52, using 90/70 when the sheet has it:

  • Hoshizaki AM-50BAK is approximately 54 lb on the current product page. 90/70 is not on that page — omitted. 54 covers 40, 48, and 52 as the brochure number. Kitchen Spot’s “15% or more” on 54 is 45.9 lb. That is arithmetic on their derate sentence, not a printed 90/70 cell. 45.9 covers 40 and the 44 lb room-plus-cup day, and misses 48 and 52. “Or more” means a hot breakfast kitchen can be lower than 45.9. The bin is 27 lb.
  • Hoshizaki C-80BAK is approximately 92 lb, same 27 lb bin. 90/70 is not on that HTML page. 92 covers 52. A 15% derate is 78.2 lb, which still covers 52 and is still not a 90/70 cell. Atlantic’s Jul 29, 2026 hotel article lists the ADA sibling C-80BAK-AD for “suites, pantries, and compact hospitality areas” at up to 92 lb/day and 27 lb storage. Those pounds match the C-80BAK page. This pass did not open a separate -AD spec PDF. The directory page notes the ADA height at 31.5″. The standard cabinet opened here is 33.5″ H.
  • Scotsman CU50 is 65 lb @ 70/50 and 49 lb @ 90/70, 26 lb bin. 49 covers 40 and 44, sits 1 lb over 48, and misses 52.
  • Scotsman CU0415 is 60 / 40 lb, 36 lb bin. 40 lb @ 90/70 ties the unbuffered room line and misses 44, 48, and 52. The 60 lb cell is the cool-room number.

Evening buckets vs a 27 lb bin

Example assumption: half of the 40 lb room line leaves between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. That is 20 lb in three hours. Half of the buffered 48 lb is 24 lb.

  • AM-50 / C-80 stored ice: 27 lb. Kitchen Spot’s 20% less is 21.6 lb usable. 21.6 covers a 20 lb pull and misses 24 lb if the bin starts at that reduced pile and you add no make during the window.
  • The AM-50 and C-80 pages do not print a 90/70 production cell, so this page does not divide 54 or 92 by 24 and call it an hourly rate. Harvest is cyclic. See ice bin sizing.
  • CU50 bin 26 lb. Twenty percent less is 20.8 lb, which covers 20 and misses 24, same shape as the 27 lb bin. CU0415’s 36 lb bin, after 20% less, is 28.8 lb, which covers both 20 and 24 as stored ice if it starts at that pile. The CU0415 day still fails at 90/70.

For eight rooms and a light breakfast, the usual miss is a hot-room derate or a bin that is not full at check-in, not a missing 400 lb head.

Worked 12-room Saturday

Same 5 lb row. Still no cooler, still one iced coffee per room as the example cup count.

  • 12 × 5 = 60 lb
  • Kitchen Spot +20%, or the same 1.20 arithmetic: 72 lb. Not a printed 12-room cell
  • Cups at 0.5 lb: 6 lb. With the room reserve only: 78 lb
  • Cooler line instead of 5 lb: 84–96 lb

60–78 lb is past the AM-50’s 54 lb brochure number and past CU50 at 49 lb @ 90/70 and CU0415 at 40 lb @ 90/70.

  • C-80 approximately 92 lb covers 60, 72, and 78 on the HTML number. A labeled 15% derate is 78.2 lb, which covers 78 by a fraction and misses the cooler band. The 27 lb bin does not hold 60.
  • Hoshizaki KM-81BAK color spec KM-81/116BAK 05/20/26: 98 lb @ 70/50, 76 lb @ 90/70, bin 38 lb. 76 covers 72 and 78 and misses 84 and 96. The product page prints “up to 98” and 39″ H. The PDF prints 17 3/4″ × 24″ × 38 5/8″ including 6″ legs. Width and depth match. Height does not. Prefer the dated PDF for the leg-included height, and do not average 39 and 38 5/8.
  • Hoshizaki KM-161BAK color spec 05/20/26: 156 lb @ 70/50, 125 lb @ 90/70, bin 78 lb (2.6 ft³). 125 covers 78 and the 96 lb cooler line as daily make. The HTML page prints “up to 156” and 39″ H and does not print 90/70. The PDF prints 23 3/4″ × 28″ × 38 5/8″ including 6″ legs. The directory page still says a 90/70 column was not on the HTML. The PDF is the 90/70 cell.
  • Manitowoc UYF-0140A family sheet: 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin. 100 lb @ 90/70 covers 78 and the 96 lb cooler line by 4 lb. A hot pantry that is worse than 90/70 can miss 96. 137 is the 70/50 cell.

Check-in window

Example assumption, not a house rule: the whole 5 lb room line leaves between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., because that is when people fill buckets. 60 lb in three hours on the unbuffered line. Half of 60, if the pull is spread, is the 30 lb case.

The hourly split (24-hour rating ÷ 24) is arithmetic, not an OEM hourly guarantee.

  • KM-81 bin 38 lb. Twenty percent less: 30.4 lb. Make at 76 lb @ 90/70: 76 ÷ 24 × 3 h ≈ 9.5 lb. Nominal bin plus make ≈ 47.5 lb if it starts full. After 20% less: about 40 lb. That covers a 30 lb half-evening and misses a 60 lb check-in dump.
  • KM-161 bin 78 lb. Twenty percent less: 62.4 lb. Make at 125: 125 ÷ 24 × 3 ≈ 15.6 lb. After 20% less: about 78 lb against a 60 lb dump. The nominal 78 lb bin covers 60 if it starts full. The reduced pile plus make still covers 60. It does not cover 60 plus a same-evening party (next section).
  • UYF-0140 bin 90 lb. Twenty percent less: 72 lb. Make at 100: ≈ 12.5 lb in three hours. After 20% less: about 84.5 lb against 60. The 12-room check-in fits this bin. The day fits at 100 lb only through the 78 lb room-plus-cup example, not through a cooler line that runs past 100.

Overnight, labeled the same way: a KM-81 emptied at 9 p.m. has about 11 hours before an 8 a.m. breakfast. 76 ÷ 24 × 11 ≈ 35 lb, against a 38 lb bin. The cabinet can nearly refill on the 90/70 arithmetic. A 6 lb breakfast then comes off that pile. A boxed-in closet will not give you 90/70.

When a small event breaks the bin

Twenty outside guests at a two-to-three-hour reception, same evening as the 12-room check-in. They are not the 12 rooms.

Pick one event row:

  • Kitchen Spot hotel catering 1 lb: 20 lb. With the chart’s 20%: 24 lb
  • Kitchen Spot general catering 1.5 lb: 30 lb. With 20%: 36 lb
  • Kitchen Spot extended events 2 lb: 40 lb. With 20%: 48 lb
  • GoFoodservice event hall 2 lb: 40 lb. Their buffered cells start at 100 people (240 lb). Applying 20% yourself is 48 lb, and you say so. Do not also add Kitchen Spot’s 20%
  • Ice Machine Sales conference 2 lb: 40 lb. That page does not print a percent on the cell

Unbuffered check-in 60 lb plus general catering 30 lb is 90 lb in the same window. One 20% on that sum is 108 lb. Do not buffer each line and then buffer the sum.

  • KM-161: reduced pile 62.4 plus ~15.6 lb of make ≈ 78 lb against 90. Misses.
  • UYF-0140: reduced pile 72 plus ~12.5 ≈ 84.5 against 90. Misses. 100 lb @ 90/70 covers a 90 lb day as make and misses 108.
  • Scotsman HID525 makes 380 lb @ 90/70 and stores 25 lb. 25 + (380 ÷ 24 × 3) ≈ 72.5 lb against a 90 lb window. The day-make covers 108. The hopper does not.
  • The smallest modular cube heads in this directory are the 288–556 lb class: Scotsman C0330MA-1 288 lb AHRI @ 90/70, Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A 320 lb @ 90/70 on the Rev 9/17 PDF (a later reprint on the directory page lists 310), Manitowoc IYT0450A 378 lb @ 90/70, Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ approximately 556 lb with 90/70 not on the HTML. Any of those covers 108 lb as make. Storage is a separate bin from the head’s compatibility list. A 200 lb-class head is not in this directory.

A once-a-month parlor party can be bagged ice for that day instead of a hardwired head in a house that lives at 40–80 lb the rest of the week. KaTom’s sizing article says undersizing is how you send someone out for bags. That is a real choice for a rare Saturday. It is a bad plan if the reception is every weekend. Form-factor background: undercounter vs modular vs countertop.

If the twenty people are the inn’s own guests, they were already the 60 lb. The reception is a weighed tub, not another 30 lb of “guests.”

Where it sits

Job Typical form Do not use it for
4–8 rooms, staff scoops in a breakfast kitchen, pull inside a 26–36 lb bin Short cabinet: AM-50, C-80, CU50, CU0415 A check-in dump that empties 60 lb at once
12 rooms, or any house whose evening pull exceeds ~30 lb Undercounter with a 38–90 lb bin: KM-81, KM-161, UYF-0140 A 27 lb bin as the only leftover
Guests serve themselves in a hall Ice-and-water dispenser (small hopper) or, for real bucket volume, a cube head on a hotel dispenser An open scoop bin in a corridor
One window that must hold more than ~90 lb Modular head plus a bin sized to that window, or bags for a rare party A 25 lb hopper as the reception chest
Full hotel floor, banquet hall, restaurant Other guides One pantry cabinet for every load

Short cabinet / “countertop.” The form-factor page already says marketing calls hotel-suite machines countertop when they are still floor-standing and short. AM-50BAK and C-80BAK are under 34″ on the current pages, front-in / front-out. Hoshizaki’s own line for both is hotel suite, office breakroom, or kitchen. CU0415 is 38″ H, or 31.9″ with the optional floor-mount kit on the product page. A true drainless household countertop unit is outside this directory. Do not treat one as NSF commercial equipment unless the listing says it is.

Undercounter with a larger bin. KM-81, KM-161, and UYF-0140 are one 115 V cabinet. The bin is built in. You do not buy a second bin SKU, and you cannot make the bin larger without a different machine.

Dispenser. GoFoodservice: anywhere someone other than staff can reach the ice, a dispenser is the choice they print. Their hotel-dispenser paragraph is a different product: a unit that takes a modular head, with a large opening for buckets, and they write that those stacks “produce more noise; not ideal for guests sleeping on the other side of a wall.” A self-contained nugget cabinet is not that stack. It is also not silent. See ice dispenser vs ice bin.

Modular head + bin. Use it when stored ice at the window has to exceed the 90 lb undercounter bin in this directory and you will not cover the gap with bags. The head is often hardwired. It belongs in a breakfast kitchen or a utility room, not in a bedroom hall. Order the bin and any top kit from the current compatibility list.

Current short cabinets and undercounters

Figures opened 2026-10-29 unless noted. Street prices omitted. Full citations for directory models also live on each directory page.

Model Ice Cited make Bin Cabinet / power Inn note
Hoshizaki AM-50BAK Top hat Approximately 54 lb. 90/70 not on the HTML 27 lb 14.875″ × 22.625″ × 33.5″; 115/60/1, 2.0 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft NEMA 5-15P Hotel-suite copy on the page. Front-in / front-out; the page says that airflow “eliminates the need for side and rear clearance.” 1,400 BTU/h. R290 (2.3 oz). 9 kWh and 65 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. Air 45–100°F, water 45–95°F, 10–113 psig. UL outdoor on the page. Drain pump is accessory HS-5061, not included. 8-room brochure day; tight once you derate or the bin is the whole check-in.
Hoshizaki C-80BAK Mini cubelet Approximately 92 lb. 90/70 not on the HTML 27 lb Same 14.875″ × 22.625″ × 33.5″ family; 115/60/1, 2.8 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft 5-15P Same suite / pantry sentence. More make, same 27 lb bin. 1,400 BTU/h. R290 (1.9 oz). 8.5 kWh and 12 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. Air 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, 10–113 psig. Atlantic’s Jul 29, 2026 hotel article puts the -AD sibling in suites and pantries.
Scotsman CU50 Gourmet cube 65 / 49 lb 26 lb 14.9″ × 22″ × 34.4″; 115/60/1, 15 A max fuse, minimum circuit Cord. Running amps and the plug type were not in the summary opened here — omitted 49 lb @ 90/70 covers an 8-room 40 lb line and misses a 12-room 60 lb line. R290. 11.0 kWh and 29.8 gal per 100 lb. 1,965 BTU/h. Product page: outdoor use is stated; a drain-pump version is optional. Water-quality sensor is on the page. It does not replace the clean interval.
Scotsman CU0415 Medium cube 60 / 40 lb 36 lb 15″ × 24″ × 38″; 115/60/1, 15 A max fuse, NEMA 5-15P. Running amps not on that HTML — omitted 40 lb @ 90/70 is an 8-room unbuffered room line and misses breakfast on top. Larger bin than CU50. Front breathing. Optional floor-mount kit to 31.9″. R290. 1,500 BTU/h. 9.23 kWh and 24.6 gal per 100 lb.
Hoshizaki KM-81BAK Crescent PDF 05/20/26: 98 / 76 lb. HTML: up to 98 38 lb PDF: 17 3/4″ × 24″ × 38 5/8″ including 6″ legs. HTML: 39″ H. 115/60/1, 2.4 A, 15 A max fuse, 6.5 ft 5-15P 76 lb @ 90/70 covers a 12-room 72–78 lb day and misses the cooler band. Bin covers a spread evening and misses a 60 lb check-in. ENERGY STAR on the page and the PDF. R290 (3.0 oz). 1,800 BTU/h. 5.6 kWh and 22 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. Air 45–100°F, water 45–90°F, 10–113 psig. Service note on the PDF: at least 12″ in front, 0.6″ on top, and room at the rear for water and drain.
Hoshizaki KM-161BAK Crescent PDF 05/20/26: 156 / 125 lb. HTML: up to 156. HTML does not print 90/70 78 lb PDF: 23 3/4″ × 28″ × 38 5/8″ including 6″ legs. HTML: 39″ H. 115/60/1, 3.5 A, 15 A max fuse, 6.5 ft 5-15P 125 lb @ 90/70 covers a 12-room day including the 84–96 lb cooler line. The 78 lb bin is the largest Hoshizaki built-in in this set. It still misses a 90 lb check-in-plus-party window after pile-up. 2,800 BTU/h. 5.5 kWh and 22 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. R290 (3.9 oz). Same ambient, pressure, and 12″ front service note as the KM-81 PDF.
Manitowoc UYF-0140A Half-dice 137 / 100 lb 90 lb 26″ × 28.50″ × 38.50″ on 6″ legs; 115/60/1, 5 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft NEMA 5-15P Largest undercounter bin in this directory. 100 lb @ 90/70 covers the 12-room 78 lb example and sits 4 lb over a 96 lb cooler day. Air in the right, air out the left, no side vents, on the family sheet. 2,150 average / 2,600 peak BTU/h. 9.2 kWh and 16.7 gal per 100 lb @ 90/70. R-404A on that sheet. Air 40–110°F, water 45–90°F, 20–80 psi. Delay control pauses production for slow periods. That is a shutoff, not a noise rating.

AM-50, C-80, KM-81, and KM-161 are 39″-class or shorter cabinets. The NEO is 38.50″ including 6″ legs. A 36″ counter does not swallow a 38½″ or 39″ box. The AM-50 and C-80 pages are the ones that say “less than 34″ tall.”

A dispenser, if guests touch the ice

Scotsman HID207 is not a directory model. It is the compact ice-and-water dispenser on the current product page and spec SIS-SS-MRD-HID207 01-26.

Model Ice Cited make Hopper Cabinet / power Inn note
Scotsman HID207 (not in the directory) H² nugget 196 lb @ 70/50, 160 lb @ 90/70 7 lb Product page and 01-26 sheet: 16.05″ × 23.44″ × 17.54″. 115/60/1, 15 A max fuse, minimum circuit Cord, 6 ft NEMA 5-15P. R-290. 4.90 kWh and 12 gal per 100 lb. 3,200 BTU/h Countertop height. Sheet: allow 6″ at left, back, and right. Air 50–100°F, water 40–100°F, 20–80 psig. A March 2024 user manual prints dimensions as 16.05 × 17.53 × 23.78 (w × d × h) and 11.8 minimum circuit amps. Prefer the 01-26 sheet and the current product page. Do not average them.
Scotsman HID525 H² nugget 500 / 380 lb air-cooled on the current product page 25 lb 21.25″ × 24.38″ × 35″; 115/60/1, 15 A, 7.5 ft 5-15P Hotel ice-room tool. 380 lb @ 90/70 covers a 12-room day as make. The 25 lb hopper does not cover a 60 lb check-in. 6,800 BTU/h on the directory page’s current sheet. A lot of heat for a bedroom hall.

HID207 arithmetic for the 8-room half-evening (20 lb in 3 hours): hopper 7 lb plus 160 ÷ 24 × 3 ≈ 20 lb of make ≈ 27 lb against 20. The 12-room half-evening (30 lb) is 27 lb on that same paper and misses. A 60 lb check-in misses by a wider margin. GoFoodservice separates countertop dispensers, which drop a small amount per serving, from hotel dispensers built to fill buckets. HID207 is the compact countertop. This page does not call its chute a bucket filler.

Cube, crescent, half-dice, gourmet, and nugget behave differently in a glass. Shape background is cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake. Atlantic’s café ice-type table, already on the coffee-shop page, assigns half cube to iced coffee and nugget to cafés. That is a dealer shape note, not a second pound factor.

Quiet, heat, and a bedroom wall

None of the OEM pages and PDFs opened for the models above print a decibel rating. This page does not invent one. The noise guide already says the same about the manuals it opened, including the CU50 user manual: the machine is “designed for quiet operation, but will make some noise” — fan, water pump, and ice hitting the bin. Harvest is audible through a shared wall.

GoFoodservice’s noise sentence is about hotel dispensers that sit under large modular heads, and it says that placement is a poor fit for guests sleeping on the other side of the wall. A 15″ undercounter is not that stack. It still rejects heat into the room: AM-50 and C-80 1,400 BTU/h, CU0415 1,500, CU50 1,965, KM-81 1,800, UYF-0140 2,150 / 2,600, KM-161 2,800, HID207 3,200, HID525 6,800. Those BTUs are the air-cooled condenser. A closed pantry in July is the hot-room derate, not the 70/50 cell.

A remote condenser moves the fan outside. GoFoodservice calls remote cooling a fit for noise-sensitive rooms. This directory does not list a remote bed-and-breakfast SKU. See remote condenser vs self-contained. Water-cooled condensers dump heat into water. Many cities restrict once-through cooling. A well and a septic field are a reason to stay air-cooled unless a mechanical plan already accounts for that water. See air-cooled vs water-cooled.

Put the cabinet in the breakfast kitchen or a pantry that does not share a headboard wall, if the house has that choice. The NEO delay control and a machine that can be switched off on a dark Monday are schedule tools. They are not a published dBA.

Water, drain, power, cold pantries

  • Filter. Ice-machine filter on the ice-maker inlet, not a refrigerator cartridge and not “the house drinking-water filter” unless that filter is the one on the ice-maker spec. The KM-81 and KM-161 PDFs say to use the water-filter spec sheet. The HID207 sheet says Scotsman recommends filtration on all ice machines. This page does not assign a grain count to inn well water. Hard water shortens the time between descales. See filters and descalers.
  • Pressure. Hoshizaki AM-50, C-80, KM-81, and KM-161: 10–113 psig. NEO and the HID207 sheet: 20–80 psi. Too little pressure and harvest fails.
  • Drain. Every cabinet above has a drain. AM-50 and C-80: 1/2″ FPT outlet; pump is HS-5061, sold separately. KM-81 and KM-161: 3/4″ drain. HID207 sheet: 3/4″ I.D. drain. Melt water is not optional. A cabinet with no drain is not one of these installs.
  • Power. The undercounters and HID207 are 115 V cord-and-plug on the sheets cited, except CU50, where the summary says Cord and does not print the plug. A KM-520MAJ-class head is hardwired. Two cabinets plus a toaster on one pantry circuit is an electrician question. Hoshizaki’s KM PDFs: if GFCI is required, use a GFCI breaker, not a GFCI receptacle.
  • Cold rooms. Sheet minimums: AM-50, C-80, KM-81, and KM-161 air 45°F; NEO air 40°F; HID207 air 50°F. An unheated porch below that minimum is outside the sheet. UL outdoor or “approved for outdoor use” on AM-50, C-80, and CU50 is not a license to run below the air minimum. See freezing up and installation requirements.
  • Clearance. Front-breathing cabinets still need the gap the sheet prints. HID207: 6″ left, back, and right. KM PDFs: 12″ in front for service and 0.6″ on top. A decorative louver is not the factory opening.

Cleaning cadence

Follow the interval on that model’s current manual. This page does not invent a bed-and-breakfast month count, and it does not average brands into one.

The floors already collected on how to clean:

  • Manitowoc cubers, including the NEO-class manual that page cites: descale and sanitize at least every six months.
  • Hoshizaki KM cubers: at least once a year, more often in some water conditions. KM-81 and KM-161 are that family. This pass did not open an AM-50 or C-80 instruction interval, so the KM annual line is not pasted onto those two cabinets.
  • Scotsman CU50 user manual: at least once a year, and preferably twice, with a Time to Clean light after six months. The water-quality sensor does not erase that sentence.
  • Scotsman HID planned-maintenance sheets on that page: typically twice a year. Use the PDF that matches the serial. This pass did not re-open that HID maintenance PDF for HID207.

A season when the inn is closed does not erase the clean. The cleaning guide already quotes Hoshizaki startup notes: a machine left with standing water needs a clean and sanitize before it makes guest ice again. Discard ice the manual tells you to discard. Check with the local health department before you treat any of this as the rule that applies to the house.

What this page is not

  • Not the hotel page. 5 lb per occupied room is the lodging row this inn borrows. An 80-room ice room, a 25 lb hopper for a whole floor, and banquet math stay on ice machine for a hotel.
  • Not a restaurant or a coffee shop. Cover counts and a full espresso bar stay on those guides. Breakfast here is the cups you pour.
  • Not a wedding venue. A parlor tea can be the event line above. A seated reception with its own headcount is ice machine for a wedding venue.
  • Not a code letter. NSF marks on the sheets are the manufacturer’s listing. We do not say an install “meets” a health department.
  • Not a review. No scores, no invented install counts.
  • Not a price list.
  • Not a decibel comparison.

Sources

  1. The Kitchen Spot, Ice Machines: Sizing for Application — hotel guest ice 5 lbs per room; hotel catering 1 lb; general catering 1.5 lb; extended events 2 lb; coffee/smoothie 2.5 lb; chart add 20%; a ~90° room can cut make by 15% or more. No bed-and-breakfast row. Opened 2026-10-29. The usable-bin sentence (expect 10–20% less than printed bin pounds) is the one already cited on ice bin sizing from this article.
  2. GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — hotel guest ice 5 lbs per room; 7–8 lbs when cooler filling is allowed; quick-reference hotel 50 → 300 lb, 100 → 600, “all figures include a 20% buffer”; event hall 2 lbs per person (100 → 240 already buffered); catering service 1.5 lbs; dispenser wherever non-staff can reach the ice; hotel dispensers under modular heads “produce more noise; not ideal for guests sleeping on the other side of a wall”; output may be 10–15% lower in a hot room. Header Last updated: Sep 20, 2026. Opened 2026-10-29. No inn row.
  3. KaTom, How Much Ice Should Your Commercial Ice Maker Produce? — hotels 5 pounds per room, plus 2 or 3 pounds if coolers are allowed; add 20 percent; table Hotel Rooms 5 lbs per room, 100 → 600 lb, header +20% for Safety. No 8-room column. Schema dateModified 2026-09-14. Opened 2026-10-29.
  4. Ice Machine Sales, Hotel & Hospitality Ice Machines — about 5 lbs per occupied room; table 5 lbs per room, catering 1 lb, conference 2 lbs; 200 rooms at 70% = 700 lb guest ice. Opened 2026-10-29.
  5. Atlantic Store Equipment, Best Ice Machines for Hotels — dated Jul 29, 2026. About five pounds per occupied guest room, then separate centers including breakfast, then a reserve. Their 150-room worksheet’s 80 lb breakfast cell is that example. The same article lists Hoshizaki C-80BAK-AD for suites, pantries, and compact hospitality at up to 92 lb/day and 27 lb storage. Opened 2026-10-29.
  6. Atlantic’s 0.35–0.6 lb per iced beverage café band is the figure already extracted on ice machine for a coffee shop from Atlantic’s sizing guide dated Jul 15, 2026. This page did not re-open that sizing URL.
  7. Hoshizaki, AM-50BAK and C-80BAK product pages — approximately 54 lb / 27 lb and 92 lb / 27 lb; 14.875″ × 22.625″ × 33.5″; 2.0 A and 2.8 A; 5-15P; 1,400 BTU/h; R290 (opened 2026-10-29).
  8. Hoshizaki, KM-81BAK product page and color spec KM-81/116BAK dated 05/20/26, item 13552K — 98 / 76 lb, 38 lb bin, 17 3/4″ × 24″ × 38 5/8″ including 6″ legs. HTML height 39″.
  9. Hoshizaki, KM-161BAK product page and color spec KM-161BAK dated 05/20/26, item 13551K — 156 / 125 lb, 78 lb bin, 23 3/4″ × 28″ × 38 5/8″ including 6″ legs. HTML does not print 90/70 and prints 39″ H.
  10. Scotsman, CU50 and CU0415 product pages — 65 / 49 lb, 26 lb bin, and 60 / 40 lb, 36 lb bin (opened 2026-10-29).
  11. Scotsman, HID207 product page and spec SIS-SS-MRD-HID207 01-26 — 196 / 160 lb, 7 lb storage, 16.05″ × 23.44″ × 17.54″, 6″ side and rear clearance, 3,200 BTU/h. March 2024 user manual 17380201 prints a different dimension order and 11.8 A minimum circuit. Prefer the 01-26 sheet.
  12. Scotsman, HID525 product page — 500 / 380 lb, 25 lb hopper, as already cited on the directory page.
  13. Manitowoc, NEO 140/190 family sheet — UYF-0140A 137 / 100 lb, 90 lb bin, 26″ × 28.50″ × 38.50″ on 6″ legs, 5 A, 6 ft 5-15P, R-404A (opened 2026-10-29).
  14. Existing VenueIce pages for intervals and placement, not re-measured here: how to clean, noise, filters and descalers, how to size.

If two sheets disagree, we say so and prefer the latest OEM page or PDF. On KM-81 and KM-161, the 05/20/26 PDFs print the 90/70 column and a leg-included height of 38 5/8″. The HTML pages print 39″ and, for KM-161, no 90/70 production. On HID207, the 01-26 sheet and the current product page agree; the March 2024 manual does not.