Remember those hot summer days, walking around in the beating sun, longing for an ice cold drink to quench your thirst? Looking for that cafe, or bar where you knew you’d be able to get something nice and cold to cool you down. The thought of being told “Sorry, we’re out of ice” just doesn’t seem to come in to our minds these days. We’ve come to rely on the fact that no matter where you go, or what time of day it is, we can be sure that there’ll be ice available to cool our drinks and give us the refreshment we’re looking for, and there’s a good chance the ice came from a SM50 Ice Machine

If you own a restaurant, cafe, or bar, or if your business relies on serving drinks to customers in glasses, you’ve got to make sure that you have ready-made ice on available on demand 24/7. You’d lose customers by the dozen if your business frequently kept running out of ice. I mean, who wants to go somewhere that serves a warm coke, when just down the road there’s an ice cold Pepsi just waiting for you in a glass with condensation dripping down its sides? That image is making me thirsty just thinking about it.

So, what do you do to make sure you can supply your customers with what they want and in fact what they demand of a modern establishment? Can you imagine having a freezer just full of ice cube moulds and breaking them out when you needed them? Only to find that some of the moulds aren’t frozen yet? It’s not a situation any serious business owner should ever get into.

Well, that’s where a dedicated ice machine becomes a necessity. These beasts only do one thing and one thing only and that’s produce ice, by the bucket load. Whether you run a little cafe or a multi-floored restaurant with seating for hundreds, there’s an ice machine for you.

One of the largest names in the business is Manitowoc Ice. While their equipment isn’t cheap it is certainly very efficient. At the recent 2011 ENERGY STAR Awards ceremony, the parent company (Manitowoc Foodservice) was awarded the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year. The 2011 Partner of the Year Awards were given to manufacturers and retailers that successfully promoted and delivered ENERGY STAR qualified products, saving consumers money and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Buy a cheaper model and the money you’ve saved on the purchase price could soon be gone, paying for your electricity bill.

They have a huge range of ice making machines, ranging from small machines that fit under your counter (such as the Manitowoc SM 50A Ice Machine), to huge beasts that churn out hundreds of pounds of ice a day. This means you can get an ice machine that will churn out 50 pounds of ice a day, to 3,300 pounds of ice a day, and in every type of ice that you can think of: dice, half dice, octagon, crushed, nugget and flake.

Find out more about the Manitowoc SM 50A Ice Machine, part of the huge range of ice machines from Manitowoc Ice.