Will an ice machine pay for its own summer?
Use Craven’s ice-guide sizing figures, then let the live cube and flake machine feed rank real products by capacity fit, headroom and payback.
+50%safety margin applied to the daily ice need
2.8Lwater demand per kg of ice made
Liveprices and stock from Craven’s Store API
Your service pattern
The guide defaults are starting points. Change them if your own ice use is heavier or lighter.
Drinks, bar customers, covers or ice-heavy portions on a busy day.
Guide presets: restaurant 0.5, cocktail-led 0.75, bar 1.0.
Your margin, not a Craven assumption.
Use your season or year.
Optional. Leave at 0 if you do not buy emergency ice.
Warm sites add the guide’s 25% uplift.
Commercial case
Good fit
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Finding live machines…
Ranking products by output fit.
Adjust the inputs to build a machine-size and ROI case.
Required output0kg
Machine output0kg
Annual upside£0
Finance guideN/A
Figures are estimates from your inputs, Craven guide sizing assumptions and live product data. Prices are ex VAT where shown by the Store API.
Live capacity-fit shortlist
Live from our storeThe list re-ranks by your required kg/day so a small counter unit does not pretend to fit a big bar.
Payback runway
Machine price vs annual upsideWhat to ask Craven for
A fitter-friendly brief from your numbersDaily output0kg/day minimum
Water demand0L/day approx.
Product directionCube ice machine
Turn this into a quote
Send Craven the required kg/day, machine fit and payback case so they can sanity-check the model before you buy.
Keep the numbers
Copy or print the brief before changing products or service assumptions.
This tool estimates sizing and payback only. It does not replace site survey checks for ventilation, drain, water, electrical supply or ambient conditions.