Top 5 Ice Machine Leasing in NYC

HYDR8 is a bottleless water and breakroom company that puts its own ice machines on the same routes as its coolers and coffee. And every call goes to a technician HYDR8 employs rather than goes to third party service providers. They provide activation, deliveries, repairs and quarterly maintenance which all run through their crew and are done inside a published 24 to 48 hour window. So a dead dispenser never gets serviced by a subcontractor. But the ice side is narrow. Their two own-label units, IceM8 and IceM8 XL, make nugget only and stop at 165 pounds a day, and we found no monthly figure anywhere on the site. We recommend you ask what happens when a kitchen outgrows that ceiling because nothing published names a bigger machine.

Easy Ice is a national ice machine subscription company that works New York City out of a branch in Mamaroneck. The whole model is one monthly figure, covering the machine, installation, preventive maintenance, cleanings, filter changes and repairs, with nothing billed on the side. And Easy Ice publishes what that figure starts at, from about 170 dollars a month for an undercounter unit up to 460 for a large modular head, which no other company we checked in the metro will show before a call. The range behind it runs 50 to 1,500 pounds a day across six ice types. But no response window appears anywhere in the subscription material. Ask how long a technician takes to reach your address, because Mamaroneck is a long way from most of the city.

Ice Machine Clearance is located in West Orange that rents and sells certified used commercial ice machines. They provide both soft serve and frozen beverage equipment. The rental fleet includes Kold Draft, Scotsman, Manitowoc, Hoshizaki, and Ice-O-Matic which no other company we checked in the metro area rents. Their machines are available in cube, nugget, and flake formats, with air-cooled, water-cooled, or remote condenser configurations. They offer one monthly fee which covers all repairs, maintenance, and cleanings, and there is no long-term commitment. They also states that it keeps spare parts and sometimes a spare machine, so rental service calls receive priority. However, no pounds-per-day figure appears on any rental page, and undercounter is the only cabinet style we can confirm. So, we suggest you to confirm the daily output and cabinet dimensions during the initial call.

U.S. Coffee, Inc. is a family-owned office coffee and breakroom service in Hicksville, run by the third generation of the family that started it in 1972. Ice arrives as one more thing on an existing delivery route, so the dispenser, the coffee, the water and the supplies land on a single invoice with a single number to call. And maintenance by their certified technicians carries no charge. Because the machines are Follett Champion and 7 and 15 Series countertop units, plus Gulf Ice Systems and Vertex, the ceiling is low, at 20 to 125 pounds a day in nugget, crescent and cube. Any kitchen busier than a conference floor runs past it, and we found no rate published anywhere. Confirm the free maintenance covers the ice unit and not just the brewers.

Coffee Distributing Corp. is a Garden City Park breakroom distributor that has traded since 1963 and has belonged to the Canteen group since 2011. Scale is the argument here. Over 60 delivery vehicles go out every business day from three warehouses, and the coverage list takes in all five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester. Repairs run through its own Equipment Service and Repair Department, with emergency weekend deliveries available. But the ice itself is one brand and one type, a line of Follett dispensers making Chewblet nugget from 100 to 425 pounds a day. And we could not find a rate, a contract term or a service window anywhere in the equipment material. Ask whether ice repairs reach the same in house department that fixes the brewers.