{"id":12946,"date":"2015-08-21T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2015-08-21T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:34:48","slug":"why-hotels-have-ice-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-hotels-have-ice-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hotels Have Ice Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/082115_1130_WhyHotelsHa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to any hotel in the United States and there&#8217;ll be prominent signs directing you to the ice machine where guests can go and get their own ice. It&#8217;s actually a little weird if you think about it. Heather Schwedel looked into it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ice machines came about in the 1890s and hotels were the first to adopt them so that they didn&#8217;t have to rely on ice miners who brought down ice from cold mountains.<\/li>\n<li>As they were expensive customers were expected to pay for the privilege of getting ice\u2026even decades later, when ice machines became commonplace and affordable.<\/li>\n<li>However the founder of Holiday Inn found all the upcharges at hotels irritating so when he launched his own chain he made free ice a feature.<\/li>\n<li>As he strongly believed in franchising \u2013 the idea that no matter where a customer is they get the same experience if they walk into a Holiday Inn property \u2013 soon all buildings belonging to the hotel chain had free ice machines.<\/li>\n<li>This set customer expectations and competitors were quickly forced to adapt the practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history of hotel ice, and the icy forehead head massages you used to be able to get back in the day over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/travel_explainer\/2015\/08\/why_are_there_ice_machines_in_so_many_hotels.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/travel_explainer\/2015\/08\/why_are_there_ice_machines_in_so_many_hotels.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to any hotel in the United States and there&#8217;ll be prominent signs directing you to the ice machine where guests can go and get their own ice. It&#8217;s actually a little weird if you think about it. Heather Schwedel looked into it: Ice machines came about in the 1890s and hotels were the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/082115_1130_WhyHotelsHa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}