Top 5 Ice Machine Rental in Phoenix, AZ

Commercial Refrigeration Service, Inc. has rented ice machines from the same north Phoenix unit since 1963, which makes them the oldest operator we found in this metro by two decades. Eight other Phoenix refrigeration firms turned up in the same search and every one of them services machines without ever placing one. They are the exception here. They are also the only company that publishes a contract length, twenty-four months, while everyone else leaves the term to the sales call. And they carry flake ice, which only one other company in this metro carries. But we did not find a capacity figure anywhere, and they name no suburbs at all, only Phoenix and the Valley. We recommend you ask what happens at month twenty-five before you sign.

Easy Ice rents nothing but ice machines, running the Phoenix branch as a main office with satellites in Avondale and Apache Junction. They are the only company in this metro that publishes what a machine costs, starting at $170 a month for undercounter and climbing to $460 for a large modular. That alone puts them ahead of a market that quotes everything by phone. They also run more metro locations than anyone else around Phoenix. But they are the one company we checked that will not commit to a response time, and they say plainly that service availability depends on the market. Their technicians are a published mix of in-house and subcontracted, where the local shops run their own crews. We would advise pinning down who actually turns up in Phoenix.

Arizona Ice & Water leases ice and water machines across the state from a Tucson base, working Phoenix on a dedicated line rather than from a branch here. They keep a three thousand pound ice trailer for customers whose machine goes down, and we found nothing like it at any other company serving this metro. Their technicians are Manitowoc certified at a named level, which only one other company around Phoenix can say. But they have only been trading since 2018, the shortest record of anyone in this market, and we could not find a capacity figure for any machine they place. So we suggest getting a response window in writing, because the only address they publish sits in Tucson, a hundred miles south.

Aqua Chill has placed point of use water equipment around the Valley from a Tempe shop since 1983, and the ice makers are a later addition to a business they say is water and nothing else. They are the only company we found publishing a support line that runs around the clock. They are also one of only three that say how often a technician actually comes out, which for them is every six to eight months, filters and sanitizing included. But their published capacity tops out at 130 pounds a day, well short of what the bigger fleets around Phoenix place. And beyond Phoenix and their own Tempe base they name no other city. We suggest confirming the ice machine sits under the same visit schedule as the water gear.

Parks Coffee runs office coffee, pantry and breakroom service out of a Broadway Road branch, and the ice and water line is one of four things they do. They publish a wider Arizona service area than anyone else we checked, seven counties reaching from Maricopa out to Yuma and Yavapai. And they run a separate phone number just for ice and water faults, answered inside twenty-four hours, which no other company around Phoenix bothers with. But they are one of only two we verified that never say what a monthly rate covers, and we found no capacity figure for either machine they place. Forty years of trading and fifteen thousand corporate accounts sit behind the service. Ask what the monthly rate covers, in writing, before anything is delivered.