Top 4 Ice Machine Rental in Columbus, OH

Culligan Quench runs the Columbus branch of a national water and ice rental business that started in 1997 as Quench USA. They publish more about what a rental actually includes than anyone else we checked, down to twice-yearly preventive maintenance, filter changes and wear-and-tear repairs sitting inside one monthly fee. And they are the only one here publishing machines that scale past break room size into restaurant and hotel volume. But the service desk closes at 8pm, and we did not find a monthly price or a response window anywhere on their site. We recommend you ask what a trip charge costs when a fault gets judged user error, because that exclusion is written into the program.

Bottleless Nation is a Midwest water and ice company with nine branches across Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, two of them inside this metro. They are the only provider we checked who publishes specifications for each individual machine, so you can size the thing yourself before a salesperson calls rather than after. And they put a service response window in writing, which only one other company here does. Two metro locations is more than any other provider here. But they are the youngest company here, and we found no published price and no loaner promise. Because the response commitment is measured in days rather than hours, we would push for a clear answer on what happens to a restaurant if a machine dies on a Friday.

Daiohs First Choice Coffee Services works the east side out of a Westbourne Avenue branch, part of a coffee and water company trading since 1987. They commit to a next-day response on an equipment failure, which is the tightest promise we found in this metro. And repairs and maintenance carry no charge, which they state outright instead of leaving it to a quote. But their published reach is the narrowest here by a wide margin, naming only two places, and the machine they publish is built for a break room rather than a kitchen line. We found no monthly rate. Because ice is a small part of what their route drivers carry, we suggest getting the repair response confirmed for the ice machine specifically, not just for coffee.

Aramark Refreshments runs the metro from a Worthington Galena Road depot, the breakroom arm of a food and facilities company trading since 1936. They name more individual towns in their published coverage than anyone else we checked, which is useful if your sites are spread from Hilliard to Pataskala. Their machines go in on a lease that includes installation and upkeep, the same arrangement most companies here use. But they publish less about the equipment itself than any other provider in this metro. We found no capacity figure, no cooling type, no rate and no response window. So we would advise pinning down the daily output and who answers a weekend breakdown before you sign anything, since none of it is written down.