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A D V ERT O R I A L
C O M P A N Y P R O F I L E
Easy Ice is Here to Solve
Your Ice Machine Problem
than ever for vending operators
to efficiently manage ice machine
fleets, due to the resources
required. Partnering with Easy Ice
offers an ideal alternative. "
An Easy Ice subscription
includes top-of-the-line equipment
from brands like Hoshizaki and
Manitowoc, biannual preventive
maintenance, all repairs, and
customer service 7 days a week.
Instead of shelling out thousands
of dollars per machine upfront,
Easy Ice subscription customers
can get the ice they need for an
affordable monthly payment that
covers maintenance and repairs
they would normally have to pay
for out-of-pocket.
What if you could stop spending
thousands of dollars on buying and
managing ice machines without
losing your competitive edge?
That's exactly what Easy Ice, the
only national provider of ice machine
subscriptions, is here to help you do.
While most of their customers
are end users-business owners
in the restaurant industry and
beyond-Easy Ice has recently
stepped into the vending world
to alleviate operators of their
ice machine woes through an
innovative, strategic partnership.
Easy Ice offers vending and OCS
operators two partnership options:
customer referral and direct
subscription. You can either:
a. Send your customers to Easy
Ice for their ice machines and
dispensers. Get out of the ice
business altogether and never
spend another dime on ice
equipment.
b. Rent your ice equipment
from Easy Ice and enjoy the
convenience of included
maintenance and repairs.
Provide the machines to
customers at a marked-up
rate for a profit.
It's a choice between conserving
capital or making it back with an
additional gain.
Passing customers along to Easy
Ice is often an operator's preferred
choice. While this option doesn't
present an opportunity to generate
revenue on the ice equipment, it
does save operators an enormous
amount of money and time. They no
longer have to pay for or manage
ice equipment, but their customers
still get the ice they want, complete
with the best equipment and care
on the market.
For established operators who
want to keep ice a part of their
business, Easy Ice offers a buyback
program that makes the transition
to subscription seamless for both
the operator and their customers.
Meanwhile, operators due for
new ice equipment can strike up a
subscription deal with Easy Ice that
meets their needs just as easily as
any end user could.
" Ice machines are expensive to
buy and even more expensive to
own, " says Bruce Trecek, National
Affiliate Program Director at Easy
Ice. " In today's uncertain economic
environment, it's more challenging
Easy Ice is the brainchild of John
Mahlmeister and Mark Hangen,
who recognized the average
business owner's ice machine
plight: ownership is too costly and
inconvenient, but local and regional
rental options often fall short. They
designed the Easy Ice subscription
based on the simple idea that
business owners across industries
should have a cost-effective,
convenient alternative to ice
machine ownership no matter where
they're located, what size their
business is, or what industry they're
in. Now, the Easy Ice subscription
is the largest ice machine rental
solution in America, with over
30,000 customers across 47 states.
When Easy Ice heard about the
bad rap ice equipment has in the
vending world and why, they knew
they could help. The operators
they've already partnered with
confirm: working with Easy Ice
beats ice machine ownership.
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