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Ice machine for a gym (fitness center / athletic training room)

Updated 2026-09-10. Independent guide — not a dealer quote.

A gym is member drinks plus, sometimes, a training room, plus, sometimes, ice baths or a concession window. Those are four published lines. Putting 80 after-work members and the varsity trainer bags on one 38 lb crescent leftover, or copying the school cafeteria 1 lb lunch row onto every athlete, is how the well is empty at 5:15 — or how a 24″ cube cabinet sits unused next to a pile of bagged flake.

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

  • Fitness-center / rec-center managers sizing ice for member drinks at a water or sports-drink well.
  • Athletic trainers sizing pack ice for a high-school, club, or college training room.
  • Small gyms with a juice bar or concession window that need a second worksheet, not a stacked factor on the same people.

It is not a school-cafeteria lunch page. The cafeteria guide already treats athletic ice as a separate line. This is that line. It is also not an arena / VIP-suite catalog, not medical advice about ice baths, and not a smoothie / juice blender page — those stay as add-on rows.

Published gym / fitness / athletic factors

Foodservice charts do publish fitness-center, athletic-training, and concession rows. They do not all print the same athlete number. Those are dealer/buyer-guide rules of thumb, not a manufacturer warranty and not a lab measurement.

Published line Factor What the source is talking about
Ice Machine Sales, fitness center 1 lb per member Sports & entertainment dealer chart. Member / fitness-center use. Do not stack this on the athlete row for the same people.
Ice Machine Sales, athletic training room (sports page) 10 lb per athlete Same dealer’s sports chart. Training-room row.
Ice Machine Sales, athletic training (education page) 5 lb per athlete Same dealer, education / campus chart. Show the range. Do not invent a third lb/athlete.
Ice Machine Sales, concession stands 2 lb per customer Sports chart. People buying drinks at a stand, not members on the floor.
Ice Machine Sales, VIP suites / boxes 3 lb per guest Arena boxes. Out of scope for a neighborhood gym unless you actually have suites.
Ice Machine Sales sports FAQ Flake preferred for athletic training rooms FAQ copy: flake “conforms to the body for ice baths and injury treatment” and is “gentle on skin.” Dealer preference, not an OEM application table.
Ice Machine Sales sports FAQ Community gyms / fitness centers may need 200–500 lb/day Their example band, not a per-member formula. A mid-size arena with concessions and a training room is their 1,000–2,000 lb event-day sentence — a different building.
Ice Machine Sales education Undercounter 50–350 lb/day for lounges / training rooms Form-factor band on the education page, not a lb/athlete.
RestaurantSupply, athletic-center buyer guide Cube for ice baths; flake for packs Cube is “hard and does not melt easily” and “excellent for ice baths.” Flake “is not a great choice for ice baths” but works in a bag for swelling / injury. Nugget “compresses to the site” like flake, melts slower, and “can also be used for beverages.” Dated May 7, 2019.
RestaurantSupply, ice-bath fill About 40 lb per tub as their example Copy: ice baths need a 3:1 water-to-ice ratio, “which can end up being around 40 pounds of ice depending on the size of the tub.” Their planning example, not a warranty and not a tub-size table.
The Kitchen Spot, coffee / smoothie bar 2.5 lb per person Juice-bar tickets only. Same table already cited on the smoothie page. Table marked +20%. Do not stack this on the 1 lb member row for the same people.
The Kitchen Spot, hot room 15% or more less make Copy says a machine in a 90° kitchen or bakery with ~70° water. A locker-room alcove next to a dryer bank or unconditioned storage is that room.

The VenueIce sizing table now has a gym / fitness / athletic training row. Use Ice Machine Sales’ 1 lb per member for fitness-center drinks. Use the same dealer’s 5 lb (education) to 10 lb (sports) per athlete for the training room — that is a range, not a third invented number. Use their 2 lb per customer only at a concession window. Use RestaurantSupply’s ~40 lb per tub only as that page’s ice-bath example, and only on a cube worksheet. Use Kitchen Spot’s 2.5 lb/person only if the counter is actually a smoothie / juice bar — that replaces the 1 lb member row for those tickets, it does not sit on top of it. Add Kitchen Spot’s +20% when you want their published reserve. Do not fold any of these into school cafeteria lunch math.

We did not find a Hoshizaki or GoFoodservice OEM table that publishes pounds per athlete or pounds per gym member. Treat the Ice Machine Sales rows as dealer charts.

Why you split the worksheets

A fitness floor, a training table, a plunge tub, and a nacho window are not the same ice job.

  • Count the people who actually take that ice. Ice Machine Sales’ fitness-center 1 lb is per member. Their athlete rows are per athlete in the training room. A 400-member club that ices 80 drinks on a peak evening is an 80-person drink worksheet, not a 400-person one. A 40-athlete practice that bags ice is a 40-person trainer worksheet. Do not multiply the membership roster by 10.
  • Do not stack unrelated factors on the same people. Do not add 1 lb/member + 5 lb/athlete + 2 lb/concession + Kitchen Spot 2.5 lb smoothie on one body. Pick the row that matches what that person is doing.
  • Ice type splits the plant. RestaurantSupply assigns cube to ice baths and flake (or nugget) to packs. Ice Machine Sales’ sports FAQ prefers flake for training rooms. Atlantic and Kitchen Spot already tell foodservice shops to specify two systems when they need two ice forms. A gym that plunges and bags is that split.
  • Concession is not the floor. Ice Machine Sales’ 2 lb per customer is the stand. Their sports FAQ also says most concession operations plan about 2 lb per customer served. Count the people who buy a drink at the window.
  • A juice bar is the smoothie page. Kitchen Spot’s 2.5 lb/person coffee/smoothie line and the smoothie / juice cup-dump method replace the 1 lb member row for blender tickets. They do not sit on top of it.
  • Athletic ice is not cafeteria ice. The school cafeteria guide already says not to multiply the football roster by 5 and add it to lunch. Keep lunch on that page.

Cube, half-dice, crescent, cubelet, and flake shape math lives on cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake. Chewable drink ice overlaps the c-store nugget story and the smoothie page. Hoshizaki’s current F-330BAK HTML names salad bars and seafood displays, not “athletic training.” That is OEM application copy, not a sizing formula.

Worked small gym (member drinks / juice-bar well)

Same peak-day method as the sizing page: count the load, pick a published factor, add the reserve the source uses. No training room, no ice baths, no concession stand.

Peak evening, 80 members taking an iced water or sports drink from a staffed well.

  • Ice Machine Sales fitness center 1 lb per member: 80 × 1.0 = 80 lb
  • Kitchen Spot +20%: 96 lb
  • Kitchen Spot coffee / smoothie 2.5 lb/person if you wrongly copy the blender line onto the same 80 members: 80 × 2.5 = 200 lb — use it only if this well is actually a smoothie / juice bar
  • Ice Machine Sales concession 2 lb/customer if you wrongly use the stand row on members: 160 lb — that is the nacho window, not the floor

The 80–96 lb Ice Machine Sales 1 lb band is past every compact 27–38 lb leftover in this directory (AM-50BAK 27 lb; C-80BAK 27 lb; KM-81BAK 38 lb). It fits the larger undercounter bins if they start full: KM-161BAK stores 78 lb; UYF-0140A / UYF-0190A store 90 lb. Those are cube / half-dice / crescent drink cabinets. Do not put this job on the F-330BAK flake leftover.

A quieter 40-member evening at 1 lb is 40 lb; +20% → 48 lb. The KM-81BAK 38 lb bin covers that pull only if it is full and almost entirely scoopable. The C-80BAK 27 lb cubelet bin is a chewable-drink leftover, not a 48 lb well.

If the front desk later adds a blender, move those tickets to the 2.5 lb smoothie worksheet and keep them off the 1 lb member row.

Worked small training room (20–40 athletes)

Trainer bags that afternoon. Not added to the 80-member drink line. Not added to a cafeteria lunch.

20 athletes:

  • Education-page 5 lb: 20 × 5 = 100 lb
  • Sports-page 10 lb: 20 × 10 = 200 lb

40 athletes (same arithmetic the cafeteria guide already used as an add-on, now as its own plant):

  • Education-page 5 lb: 40 × 5 = 200 lb
  • Sports-page 10 lb: 40 × 10 = 400 lb

That ice is usually flake (packs a bag, conforms) on Ice Machine Sales’ sports FAQ and RestaurantSupply’s pack sentence, or cubelet / nugget on RestaurantSupply’s “compresses… and can also be used for beverages” line. Ice Machine Sales’ education page puts training rooms on undercounter 50–350 lb/day — that is a 24-hour make band, not a leftover. A Hoshizaki F-330BAK stores 80 lb. A 100–200 lb trainer pull does not fit that leftover. A 400 lb sports-page afternoon does not either.

The F-330BAK 24-hour “up to 331 lb” column is above the 100–200 lb education-page band and below a 400 lb sports-page dump if the ice all leaves in one practice. Hoshizaki’s current F-330 HTML page does not print a 90/70 production cell, so we do not invent hourly make. On stored ice alone, 80 lb covers a 5 lb × 16 athlete room only if the bin is actually full and scoopable.

Ice Machine Sales’ sports page puts flake machines in a 300–1,500 lb/day band. Those modular flakers are not in this directory. Do not invent a 400 lb flake SKU. A 200–400 lb trainer pull is a modular flake or cubelet head + bin conversation, or a second plant — Kitchen Spot’s “multiple units” paragraph — not a 27 lb C-80 leftover.

C-80BAK mini cubelet stores 27 lb. RestaurantSupply will let nugget do pack duty; the bin still will not hold a 100 lb afternoon. RNP0320A cited sheet is 308 / 236 lb nugget on a D-420 (310 lb bin) — that is the storage class a 200 lb education-page pull is talking about, and it is a head + bin, not an undercounter leftover.

A cafeteria cube head is the wrong shape for an ice bag even if the 24-hour number looks big enough.

Worked ice-bath add-on (RestaurantSupply example)

Optional. Cube, not flake. RestaurantSupply’s athletic-center page: a 3:1 water-to-ice ratio “can end up being around 40 pounds of ice depending on the size of the tub.” That is their example, not a tub-size table and not a warranty. Weigh a fill if you can.

  • 1 RestaurantSupply-example fill: about 40 lb cube
  • 2 fills the same afternoon: about 80 lb
  • 4 fills: about 160 lb

Do not add this to the 5–10 lb/athlete pack line for the same ice. Packs are flake / cubelet on the pages we opened. Baths are cube on RestaurantSupply. Ice Machine Sales’ sports FAQ also names flake for baths; when two dealer pages disagree, we show both and do not invent a third rule. If you follow RestaurantSupply, the bath is a cube cabinet. If you follow Ice Machine Sales’ FAQ, the bath rides on the flake plant — still as its own pound count, not hidden inside 5 or 10 lb/athlete.

40 lb cube: KM-81BAK stores 38 lb — one example fill if the bin is full. KM-161BAK stores 78 lb; UYF-0140A stores 90 lb. Two example fills (80 lb) fit those larger leftovers only if they start full. Four fills (160 lb) are past every undercounter bin in this directory (largest built-in is 90 lb). That is a modular cube head + bin, or you stagger fills while the cabinet catches up — we do not invent hourly make on sheets that omit 90/70.

A 40-athlete sports-page training room (400 lb flake) plus two RestaurantSupply-example baths (80 lb cube) is two cabinets.

Optional concession window

Ice Machine Sales sports chart: 2 lb per customer. Their concession FAQ repeats “about 2 lbs of ice per customer served.”

  • 60 stand customers: 60 × 2 = 120 lb
  • Kitchen Spot +20%: 144 lb

Do not also add the 1 lb member row on these same tickets. 120–144 lb is past a 90 lb undercounter leftover if the whole window hits in two hours. A HID525 25 lb hopper is a self-serve chute that has to keep making ice — Ice Machine Sales’ “countertop ice dispensers” sentence for concession / VIP / press box — not a 144 lb dump bin. See the rush section.

VIP suites at 3 lb per guest stay on the sports chart. We do not work an arena-box example here.

The practice / after-work window

A 24-hour rating is not a bucket. Gym ice is taken when the floor peaks and when practice bags get packed — often a short evening window — not as 4 lb every hour for 24 hours.

Take the 80-member Ice Machine Sales 1 lb line (80 lb before reserve). If most of that ice leaves in a two-hour after-work rush:

  • Service pull: about 80 lb in 2 hours
  • KM-81BAK stored ice: 38 lb. Make during the window at the sheet’s 76 lb @ 90/70 is 76 ÷ 24 ≈ 3.2 lb/hour × 2 h ≈ 6 lb. On paper: ~44 lb against an 80 lb pull. The leftover is empty before the 6 p.m. class.
  • 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 an 80 lb pull only if it is full and almost entirely scoopable.
  • UYF-0140A stored ice: 90 lb. Make during the window at the sheet’s 100 lb @ 90/70 is 100 ÷ 24 ≈ 4.2 lb/hour × 2 h ≈ 8 lb. On paper: ~98 lb against an 80 lb pull — tight if the locker-room alcove is hotter than 90/70.

Take the 40-athlete education-page 5 lb line (200 lb before reserve) on the flake leftover:

  • F-330BAK stored ice: 80 lb. 90/70 production not on that HTML. On stored ice alone you are 120 lb short before anyone scoops a pack. The 331 lb headline does not rescue an 80 lb bin at 3:30 p.m.

Take the RestaurantSupply one-tub example (40 lb cube) on KM-81: the 38 lb bin matches one fill only if it is full. A second fill the same hour is a second plant or wait time we will not invent.

That hourly split (24-hour rating ÷ 24) is arithmetic, not an OEM hourly guarantee. Harvest is cyclic. A boxed-in training alcove will not even give you the 90/70 column. See how to size and air-cooled vs water-cooled.

Kitchen Spot’s usual bin rule is 10–20% larger than daily make, except the church / one-or-two-days-a-week pattern. A gym turns the bin over every open day. Do not park a week of ice in a sealed bin. Follow the clean/sanitize interval on the machine sheet. We are not writing a health-department letter.

Locker-room / training-alcove heat derate

Manufacturer “up to” numbers are a 70°F air / 50°F water comparison point. The machine that lives next to a dryer bank, a steam room door, or an unconditioned storage cage 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.”
  • Light Soda: real-world output varies with ambient temperature, water quality, and usage. Size for peak, not average.

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

Model 70/50 90/70 Drop
Manitowoc UYF-0140A 137 lb 100 lb 27%
Manitowoc UYF-0190A 193 lb 140 lb 27%
Ice-O-Matic ICEU150HA 185 lb 130 lb 30%
Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A 435 lb 320 lb on the Webstaurant CIM0430 PDF we opened. A 2025 depot reprint is already flagged on that directory page as 310 lb — treat 90/70 as labeled / uncertain until you open the current Ice-O-Matic PDF 26% on the 320 lb cell
Scotsman C0330MA-1 400 lb 288 lb AHRI (Rewonline listing) 28%
Hoshizaki KM-81BAK 98 lb (“up to” on the product page) 76 lb on the KM-81/116 BAK sheet already cited on that directory page 22%
Hoshizaki KM-161BAK 156 lb Not on the HTML product page we opened 2026-09-10 — omitted —
Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ ~556 lb Not on the HTML product page we opened 2026-09-10 — omitted —
Manitowoc IYT0450A 490 lb on the URI listing 378 lb AHRI @ 90/70 already cited on that directory page 23%
Manitowoc RNP0320A 308 lb 236 lb on the cited RNP sheet 23%
Ice-O-Matic GEM0450A 464 lb 354 lb on the cited GEM0450 PDF 24%
Scotsman HID525 500 lb 380 lb on the current Scotsman page (older 02/21 PDFs listed 365 lb air-cooled @ 90/70 — directory page already flags the spread) 24% on the 380 lb cell
Hoshizaki F-330BAK 331 lb “up to” Not on the HTML product page we opened 2026-09-10 — omitted —
Hoshizaki C-80BAK 92 lb “approximately” Not on that HTML page — omitted —
Hoshizaki AM-50BAK 54 lb “approximately” Not extracted from the HTML page — omitted —

Compare the 90/70 column to the peak-day target when the sheet has one. A 400 lb “up to” head that makes 288 lb in a 90° locker alcove is a 288 lb machine that practice.

Air-cooled cabinets also dump heat into that room. 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. F-330BAK is 3,400 BTU/h. AM-50BAK is 1,400 BTU/h on the bakery / office citations already on those directory pages. 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 lockers. See air-cooled vs water-cooled.

Form factor: undercounter vs modular; flake / cubelet vs hard cube

Atlantic, GoFoodservice, Light Soda, and HVACDirect all draw the same line: undercounter when demand is low-to-moderate and the built-in bin covers the rush; modular head + bin when production is high or storage has to be chosen separately. Ice Machine Sales’ education page puts undercounters on faculty lounges and training rooms (50–350 lb/day) and modulars on cafeteria volume. Their sports page puts flake machines at 300–1,500 lb/day and modular cube plants at 500–2,000+ lb/day for arenas.

Job Typical form Do not use it for
Staff / quiet 20–40 member drink well, Kitchen Spot office-scale ~25–40 lb Compact undercounter / top-hat (AM-50, KM-81, C-80) 80-member after-work rush; trainer bags
Peak-evening member drinks, Ice Machine Sales 1 lb × ~80, 115 V alcove Large undercounter cube / half-dice (KM-161, UYF-0140/0190, ICEU150) 200 lb trainer pull; ice-bath farm
Chewable sports-drink well or a tiny juice pass Cubelet / nugget undercounter (C-80) or a dispenser if members self-serve Hard-cube ice baths if you are following RestaurantSupply; 200 lb flake packs
Juice / smoothie bar on the same building Separate blender worksheet — smoothie guide Stacking 2.5 lb on the 1 lb member row
Training-room packs, education-page ~100–200 lb Flake / cubelet with a bin that holds the pull (F-330 leftover only if the room is smaller than ~16 athletes at 5 lb) The member-drink cube bin
Training-room packs, sports-page ~200–400 lb Modular flake or cubelet head + cabinet; Ice Machine Sales flake band starts at 300 lb/day A 80 lb F-330 leftover; a cafeteria cube head
Ice baths, RestaurantSupply ~40 lb/tub example Cube undercounter if the leftover covers the fills; modular cube + bin once fills stack past ~90 lb Scooping flake into the tub because RestaurantSupply told you not to
Concession window, 2 lb/customer Dispenser at the stand (small hopper) or modular cube + bin for a real rush The training-room flake cabinet
Arena / VIP 3 lb/guest Out of this directory’s neighborhood-gym class Copying suite math onto a rec-center membership

Undercounter 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. This directory’s largest undercounter bin is 90 lb. Once the practice or after-work rush 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 head + bin is how you get Atlantic’s service-window storage and Kitchen Spot’s 10–20% larger bin than daily make. 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 Machine Sales’ sports modular band starts at 500–2,000+ lb/day; their education undercounter band for training rooms is 50–350 lb/day. The smallest modular cube heads in this directory are the 400–550 lb class. That is a back-of-house plant, often hardwired, not a locker-room plug-in. Modular flake heads in the 300–1,500 lb sports-page band are not in this directory today.

Nugget / cubelet is chewable drink ice and, on RestaurantSupply, pack ice that can also go in a cup. A dispenser hopper (HID525 25 lb on the current page) has to keep making ice during the rush — it is not a 200 lb dump bin. Flake is pack / display ice on the pages we opened. Hard cube is the RestaurantSupply ice-bath ice. See cube vs half-dice vs nugget vs flake.

Current flake / cubelet cabinets for packs (OEM sheets)

Figures are manufacturer ratings. Full citations live on each directory page. Street prices omitted. These cabinets are trainer-pack tools unless a sentence below says otherwise.

Model Ice Cited make Bin Cabinet / power Gym note
Hoshizaki F-330BAK Flake Up to 331 lb on the current product page. 90/70 production not on that HTML 80 lb (2.7 ft³, AHRI 820 method) 24″ × 26″ × 39″; 115/60/1, 6.3 A, 15 A max fuse, 8 ft NEMA 5-15P The flake cabinet in this directory. Front-in / front-out. R290 (2.8 oz). 4.29 kWh/100 lb @ 90/70, 12 gal/100 lb, 3,400 BTU/h. ENERGY STAR stated on the page. Hoshizaki copy is salad bar / seafood / display — training-room flake sentences are on Ice Machine Sales and RestaurantSupply. An 80 lb leftover covers a small 5 lb/athlete room only if it starts full.
Hoshizaki C-80BAK Mini cubelet 92 lb “approximately.” 90/70 not on that HTML page 27 lb Same 15″ family as AM-50; 115/60/1, 2.8 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft 5-15P RestaurantSupply’s nugget-as-pack sentence. Same tiny 27 lb bin. Drink well or a few bags, not a 40-athlete afternoon.
Manitowoc RNP0320A Nugget 308 / 236 lb on the cited RNP sheet Head only; that sheet shows the head on a D-420 (310 lb bin, 22″ × 34″ × 76″ including 6″ legs) 115 V, 7.5 A min. circuit, 15 A max fuse, R290, ENERGY STAR 3.0 marked. Head depth/height were not cleanly extracted — omitted Separate cabinet. 310 lb bin is the storage class a 200 lb education-page pull wants.
Ice-O-Matic GEM0450A Pearl 464 / 354 lb on the cited GEM0450 PDF Head only 21″ wide on that sheet. Voltage, amps, depth, and height were not extracted from the PDF text we opened — omitted Read the drawing before you cut a training-room alcove.

Hoshizaki’s 4HC-H filter page (already noted on the F-330 directory page) says that filter is not recommended for flakers. See filters and descalers.

A cubelet sibling F-330BAK-C is 300 lb on the 08/28/25 spec PDF already cited on that directory page. Treat it as the cubelet variant of the same cabinet, not as flake for bags if you are following RestaurantSupply’s flake-vs-nugget split.

Current cube undercounters for drinks and ice baths (OEM sheets)

These cabinets are drink and RestaurantSupply-style bath tools. They are the same shortlist as the office and cafe pages.

Model Ice Cited make Bin Cabinet / power Gym note
Hoshizaki AM-50BAK Top hat 54 lb “approximately” (current product page). 90/70 omitted 27 lb 14.875″ × 22.625″ × 33.5″; 115/60/1, 2.0 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft NEMA 5-15P Staff / quiet well. Hoshizaki copy: hotel suite / office / kitchen. Not an 80-member rush and not trainer bags.
Hoshizaki KM-81BAK Crescent 98 / 76 lb (product page “up to 98”; 90/70 on the KM-81/116 BAK sheet) 38 lb (AHRI 820; 1.3 ft³ × 30 lb/ft³) 17.75″ × 24″ × 39″; 115/60/1, 2.4 A, 15 A max fuse, 6.5 ft 5-15P One RestaurantSupply-example tub if the bin is full. 39″ H will not fit a 36″ counter. 1,800 BTU/h.
Hoshizaki KM-161BAK Crescent 156 lb on the current product page. 90/70 not on that HTML page 78 lb (2.6 ft³, AHRI 820 method) 23.75″ × 28″ × 39″; 115/60/1, 3.5 A, 15 A max fuse, 6.5 ft 5-15P Bin that can cover an ~80-member 1 lb evening if it starts full, or about two 40 lb example tub fills. 2,800 BTU/h.
Manitowoc UYF-0140A Half-dice 137 / 100 lb (NEO 140/190 family sheet, 6/22) 90 lb 26″ × 28.50″ × 38.50″ (height includes 6″ legs on that sheet); 115 V, 5 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft 5-15P Biggest undercounter bin in this directory. Family sheet lists R-404A — confirm the data plate.
Manitowoc UYF-0190A Half-dice 193 / 140 lb (same NEO sheet) 90 lb Same 26″ cabinet family; 115 V, 6 A, 15 A max fuse, 6 ft 5-15P More make, same 90 lb bin — overnight refill is faster; 5:00 scoop capacity does not grow.
Ice-O-Matic ICEU150HA Half cube 185 / 130 lb on the circulated ICEU150 sheet 70 lb 24.54″ × 26.27″ × 39″; 115 V. 9.7 A on one distributor sheet — confirm the current OEM PDF Directory page already says verify the model has not been superseded. ENERGY STAR on the cited sheet.

AM-50BAK, C-80BAK, KM-81BAK, KM-161BAK, and F-330BAK are R290 on those current Hoshizaki pages.

Current modular heads + bins (OEM sheets)

Pair the head with a bin from the compatibility list, not with an undercounter leftover. Gym logic is the same as restaurant F&B once the leftover is too small: storage for the service window. These are cube heads. They are ice-bath / concession / large drink plants, not flake pack machines.

Model Ice Cited make Cabinet / power Notes
Hoshizaki KM-520MAJ Crescent ~556 lb (“approximately” / “up to 556” on the current product page). 90/70 not extracted from that HTML 22″ × 27.375″ × 28″; 115 V hardwire, 10.6 A, 20 A max fuse; 7,000 BTU/h Compatible bins on the page include B-250 through B-1300 and DB/DM dispensers. Slim-line; two heads side by side is a documented Hoshizaki layout. ENERGY STAR stated on the page.
Manitowoc IYT0450A Half-dice 490 lb/day on the URI listing we opened (no 90/70 cell on that HTML). Directory page already cites 378 lb AHRI @ 90/70 30″ × 24.5″ × 21.5″ on that URI page (some earlier copy 24″ D — use the current cut sheet); 115 V, MCA 11.9 A, 20 A max fuse. Cord vs hardwire: confirm the current sheet Head only. URI copy suggests D400 / D570 bins and marks the head not stackable. R410A on that page.
Ice-O-Matic CIM0430A Half cube 435 / 320 lb on the Webstaurant CIM0430/0435/0436 PDF we opened. A 2025 reprint is already flagged on the directory page as 310 lb @ 90/70 30.25″ × 24.25″ × 21.25″; 115/60/1; min. circuit 11.0 A, 15 A fuse; 5,100 BTU/h on that PDF ENERGY STAR mark on the sheet. Head only; B25–B1660 on that PDF. Dual exhaust; 6″ intake/exhaust clearance. Water-cooled CIM0430W is a different water-use story (169 gal/100 lb condenser water on the same PDF).
Scotsman C0330MA-1 Medium cube 400 / 288 lb (70/50 and AHRI 90/70 on the Rewonline listing) 30″ × 24″ × 23″; 115/60/1, 14.3 A. Often hardwired on Prodigy Plus copy — confirm the current sheet ENERGY STAR on that listing. Common bins in circulated copy include B330 / B530.

Hoshizaki bins already cited on the restaurant, brewery, and school-cafeteria pages (application capacity = volume × 30 lb/ft³ on each page; height includes 6″ legs; top kits sold separately):

Bin (current OEM page) Application capacity Width × depth × height Why a gym looks at it
B-300SF 300 lb (11.51 ft³) 22″ × 32.5″ × 46″ Same width as KM-520MAJ. Covers a stacked ice-bath afternoon or a 200 lb education-page cube pull only if the bin is actually full and usable. 3/4″ FPT drain.
B-500SF 500 lb (16.33 ft³) 30″ × 32.5″ × 46″ Kitchen Spot’s “bin 10–20% larger than daily make” idea on a 400–450 lb head, or a sports-page 400 lb cube dump if you are not on flake. 22″ head needs the top kit on the sheet.

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.

Scotsman HID525 current product page: 500 / 380 lb, 25 lb hopper (dispenser, not a dump bin), 21.25″ × 24.38″ × 35″, 115 V. Older PDFs listed 365 lb air-cooled @ 90/70 — treat the 90/70 cell as labeled / confirm SKU. A 25 lb hopper has to keep making ice during the rush. That is a member-facing or concession chute, not the 200 lb trainer cabinet.

Power, drain, air, filter (locker-room / training-alcove realism)

Many gym ice rooms are a tight hole: one circuit, a mop sink around the corner, a dryer bank eight feet away, and a louver someone boxed in. Read the sheet before the bid.

  • 115 V cord-and-plug on the compact cabinets above (KM-81, KM-161, UYF-0140/0190, F-330BAK, AM-50, C-80). 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. Two cabinets plus a blender on one locker-room circuit is an electrician question.
  • Drain. Gravity to a nearby floor drain or sink tail if the sheet’s fall and fitting work (KM-81 / KM-161 / KM-520 / F-330: 3/4″ FPT on those current pages; AM-50 / 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. A training room that only has a mop sink down the hall still needs the fall or the listed pump.
  • Air / alcove. Front-in / front-out cabinets (KM-81BAK, KM-161BAK, F-330BAK, AM-50BAK, C-80BAK) exist for tight holes. Modular heads still need the clearance on the sheet (CIM0430A PDF: 6″ intake and exhaust). A boxed-in louver next to a dryer bank is a derate. Use the 90/70 column if you have it.
  • Water-cooled condensers dump heat into condenser water. CIM0430W on the same Ice-O-Matic PDF lists 169 gal/100 lb condenser water. Many cities restrict once-through cooling. Do not pick water-cooled to hide a hot-alcove install without a mechanical reason.
  • Filter. Ice-machine filter, not the drinking-fountain cartridge and not a flaker-forbidden 4HC-H on the F-330. See filters and descalers.
  • Water pressure. Hoshizaki compact, F-330, 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.
  • Ice that goes into a cup or onto skin is still ice you clean on the machine-sheet interval. We are not writing a health-department letter and we are not giving ice-bath medical advice.
  • 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 school cafeteria page. Lunch-rush 1–1.5 lb/student math stays on the school cafeteria guide. Do not fold this worksheet into that one.
  • Not a country-club campus. A club fitness room uses this page’s 1 lb/member line and does not recount members who already ate in the grill. The rest of the campus is ice machine for a country club.
  • Not a code letter. NSF marks and manuals are on the sheets. We do not say an install “meets” a health department, an athletic-training protocol, or a pool/spa rule.
  • Not medical advice. RestaurantSupply’s 3:1 bath sentence and Ice Machine Sales’ flake-for-therapy FAQ are equipment-planning copy, not a treatment protocol.
  • Not a review. No scores, no invented “we installed N of these in gym Y.”
  • Not a price list.
  • Not a smoothie, office, or c-store guide. Those venues keep their own pages. A juice bar still uses the smoothie 2.5 lb (or weighed-dump) method. Staff rooms overlap the office page. Fountain ounces overlap the c-store cup table.
  • Not a third invented lb/athlete. Published athlete rows are Ice Machine Sales education 5 lb and Ice Machine Sales sports 10 lb. We show the range.
  • Not a stadium or arena. VIP 3 lb per guest, concession customers, and Ice Machine Sales’ 1,000–2,000 lb event-day FAQ are the stadium worksheet. This page is the fitness floor and the training room alone.
  • Not bagged-ice merchandising. GoFoodservice packaged-ice 10 lb × bags is the c-store line if you sell bags at the desk.

Sources

  1. Ice Machine Sales, Sports & Entertainment Ice Machines — athletic training room 10 lbs per athlete; concession stands 2 lbs per customer; VIP suites / boxes 3 lbs per guest; fitness center 1 lb per member; flake preferred for training rooms in their FAQ; community gyms / fitness centers “may need 200–500 lbs per day”; mid-size arena with concessions and a training room “typically needs 1,000–2,000 lbs per event day”; flake machines 300–1,500 lbs/day; modular 500–2,000+ lbs/day; concession FAQ repeats “about 2 lbs of ice per customer served” (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  2. Ice Machine Sales, Education & Campus Ice Machines — athletic training 5 lbs per athlete (same dealer, different page than the sports 10 lb row); undercounter 50–350 lb/day for lounges / training rooms; modular cafeteria band 300–2,000+ lb/day (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  3. RestaurantSupply, The Best Ice Machines for an Athletic Center — cube “excellent for ice baths”; ice baths need a 3:1 water-to-ice ratio, “around 40 pounds of ice depending on the size of the tub” (their example); flake “not a great choice for ice baths” but works in a bag for swelling / injury; nugget compresses like flake, melts slower, “can also be used for beverages.” Dated May 7, 2019 (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  4. The Kitchen Spot, Ice Machines: Sizing for Application — coffee/smoothie 2.5 lb/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; church / one-or-two-days-a-week bin exception; multiple machines when ice types differ (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  5. Atlantic Store Equipment, Commercial Ice Machine Sizing Guide — two ice forms → two systems; hot, poorly ventilated room is not the DOE test; reserves 15–25% and 25–30%. No gym lb/member or lb/athlete row on the page we opened. Dated Jul 15, 2026 (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  6. GoFoodservice, Commercial Ice Machine Guide — modular 250–2,500 lb/day; undercounter 50–500 lb/day, “typical commercial output 100–250 lbs per day for standard bar/restaurant use”; packaged ice 10 lbs × bags sold per day; actual output may be 10–15% lower in hot rooms. No gym or athlete row on the page we opened. Last updated Sep 3, 2026 on the live article already cited by the school-cafeteria guide (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  7. Light Soda On Tap, How Many Pounds of Ice Does a Restaurant Need Per Day? — form-factor bands under 300 / 300–600 / 600+ lb/day; hot-summer markets at least 15–25%. Dated June 4, 2026 (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  8. HVACDirect, Commercial Ice Machine Buying Guide — undercounter “ideal for offices, cafes, and smaller establishments with constrained space”; modular heads “perfect for large production volumes” (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  9. Hoshizaki, F-330BAK product page — 331 lb flake, 80 lb bin, 24″ × 26″ × 39″, 115 V, 6.3 A, 5-15P, 3,400 BTU/h; “perfect for salad bars, seafood displays” (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  10. Hoshizaki, C-80BAK product page — 92 lb, 27 lb bin, same 15″ family, 115 V, 2.8 A (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  11. Hoshizaki, KM-81BAK product page — 98 lb, 38 lb bin, 17.75″ × 24″ × 39″, 115 V, 2.4 A, 1,800 BTU/h (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  12. Hoshizaki, KM-161BAK product page — 156 lb, 78 lb bin, 23.75″ × 28″ × 39″, 115 V, 3.5 A, 2,800 BTU/h; “small bars, hotel lobbies, and office break rooms” (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  13. Hoshizaki, AM-50BAK product page — 54 lb, 27 lb bin, 14.875″ × 22.625″ × 33.5″, 115 V, 2.0 A (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  14. 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 (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  15. Hoshizaki, B-300SF and B-500SF product pages — 300 / 500 lb application capacity; 22″ / 30″; top kits sold separately (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  16. 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; retrieved 2026-09-10).
  17. URI, IYT0450A listing — 490 lb/day, 30″ × 24.5″ × 21.5″, 115 V, MCA 11.9 A, 20 A max fuse, R410A, suggested D400 / D570, not stackable (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  18. Ice-O-Matic, CIM0430/0435/0436 spec PDF — CIM0430A 435 / 320 lb, 30.25″ × 24.25″ × 21.25″, 115/60/1, 11.0 A / 15 A, 5,100 BTU/h, 6″ clearance; CIM0430W condenser water 169 gal/100 lb (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  19. Rewonline, Scotsman C0330MA-1 listing — 400 lb @ 70/50, 288 lb AHRI @ 90/70, 30″ × 24″ × 23″, 115 V, 14.3 A (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  20. Manitowoc, RNP0320 spec — 308 / 236 lb, 7.5 A min. circuit, 15 A max fuse, R290 (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  21. Ice-O-Matic, GEM0450 spec PDF — 464 / 354 lb; 21″ width called out; voltage / amps / depth / height not extracted from the PDF text we opened (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  22. Scotsman, HID525 product page — 500 / 380 lb, 25 lb hopper (retrieved 2026-09-10).
  23. Directory pages already citing the same OEM language: F-330BAK, C-80BAK, KM-81BAK, KM-161BAK, AM-50BAK, UYF-0140A, UYF-0190A, ICEU150HA, KM-520MAJ, IYT0450A, CIM0430A, C0330MA-1, RNP0320A, GEM0450A, HID525.

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