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Why Restaurant Ice Machines Cost More Than You Think
Lucas and Luna drill into one of the most overlooked line items in restaurant finance: the ice machine. Lucas shares numbers from a recent National Restaurant Association equipment survey showing that commercial ice machines cost between $3,000 and $15,000 upfront, with annual energy and maintenance costs of $1,200 per unit. They talk about the 'ice audit' that one Atlanta bar group conducted, discovering they were spending $18,000 a year on ice production across four locations. Luna brings up the failure rate: a third of all service calls in high-volume kitchens involve ice…
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