Top 5 Ice Machine Rental in Baltimore, MD

Culligan Quench rents ice and water dispensers to Baltimore offices, clinics and breakrooms, working the metro from a Jessup base. Their fixed monthly fee is the only one here that names installation, filters, maintenance and repairs in the same breath, and they add two preventive visits a year on top. They also run the widest capacity range we found in this market, and they are the only company here publishing how their machines are cooled. But everything they place is own-branded, so there is no Hoshizaki or Follett name to look up, which is unusual in this metro. And they do not publish a price. Their service line also closes at eight in the evening. We recommend you ask what happens to the rate when a machine is swapped for a larger one.

Pure Water Technology runs the Baltimore metro from a Cockeysville branch, placing ice machines alongside the filtered water systems that are their main trade. They name more manufacturers than any other company we checked here, four of them, and they are the only one telling you their technicians are their own and factory trained. Their rental is sold as all service included, and they will hold the monthly figure steady for as long as five years, which nobody else in this market offers in writing. But we could not find a founding year anywhere in their own material, so there is no tenure to credit them with. Their shop also keeps weekday hours only. We would advise confirming who comes out if a machine fails on a Saturday.

First Choice Coffee Services has supplied office coffee and water from Linthicum since 1987, and the Follett ice unit goes onto the same account as the coffee. They put repairs and maintenance in writing as carrying no charge, which is worth something from a company that never prints a rate, and few here commit even that much. Their machine tops out at a hundred pounds a day though, the smallest ceiling we found in this market, so a busy kitchen will outgrow the unit. And we could not find a contract length, a monthly figure, or any statement of what happens at the end of a term. Ask what the account looks like if the coffee service ends and the ice machine stays.

TriMark Adams-Burch has sold restaurant equipment across Maryland since 1896, and they now rent Hoshizaki ice machines on a published rate card, which nobody else in this market does. Their figures run from $179 a month to $639, so a buyer can price a machine before making a single call. They also stock sphere and two inch cocktail cubes, and no other company here carries specialty ice at all. The catch is what the rate leaves out. Water filtration is billed on top, and we found no statement that maintenance or repairs are covered. Their nearest counter is in Landover on the Washington side, well outside the metro. We would push for the service terms in writing before the rate tempts you.

Aramark Refreshments stocks Follett Chewblet machines for Baltimore breakrooms and runs them out of a Jessup depot alongside the coffee brewers. They are the only company we checked here that names the filter cartridge and how often it gets swapped, quarterly, on 3M. Their larger unit makes four hundred pounds a day, more than any other breakroom supplier in this market places. But we could not find the word rental or lease anywhere on their site, nor a monthly fee, a contract length, or a statement that repairs are covered. So a buyer is agreeing to terms that are not written down. We would ask for those terms on paper before anything is installed.