Automatic Ice & Beverage, Inc.

12/27/2022

Now THIS is a SERIOUS ICE MACHINE! Looks seriously dangerous, too!

12/07/2022

08/04/2022

Alabamians are going back out. Bar and restaurant traffic passes pre-pandemic highs

Alabamians are going back out. Bar and restaurant traffic passes pre-pandemic highs. 👍🏼

Data shows Alabamians went out to bars and restaurants more often in the early parts of 2022 than they did even before the start of the pandemic.

07/07/2022

🔥102° on our back dock in the SHADE. 🔥 It can’t get hot enough for AIB in the ice machine business! 😂👍🏼

04/28/2022

Congratulations to our friend Carl Frost (pictured left), Chris Frost, and their entire crew at Commercial Icemakers, LLC on their Ice-O-Matic growth rebate award for outstanding ice machine sales! These Frost guys are really COOL! 🥶😁 🧊

04/25/2022

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11/25/2021

Happy Thanksgiving!

05/01/2021

Want a history lesson? Here are 5 more of Birmingham's oldest businesses | Bham Now

Want a history lesson? Here are 5 more of Birmingham's oldest businesses | Bham Now

Rickwood Field is the oldest baseball park in the US. Photo via Bham Now We're back with another roundup of five more of Birmingham's oldest businesses,

02/04/2021

“All we are is the sum of our actions. What we do is what we believe, and everything else is just conversation.” - Sen John Kennedy (R-LA)

12/08/2020

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11/13/2020

Stack ‘em high and watch ‘em fly!

Anyone need an ice machine? We got em! 😁

09/08/2020

Austrian Man Breaks World Record for Standing in Box of Ice

Cool Austrian dude sets world record with entire body covered in 440+ lbs of ice for 2.5 hrs Saturday. The iceman cometh!

An Austrian extreme athlete broke his own world record by spending over two and a half hours completely submerged in ice. Josef Koeberl managed to stay two h...

05/16/2020

Cambria presents Paul Harvey - Hard Work

So good- so true- so American. Inspirational words of wisdom from the great Paul Harvey. Need more folks like him in the USA- now more than ever. 🇺🇸 Let’s get back at it America!

05/09/2020

Alabama restaurants, salons, gyms can reopen Monday; churches can meet as 10-person limit lifted

Great news!

The safer at home order that closed restaurants and bars, gyms, salons and churches in Alabama will end Monday, May 11.

05/02/2020

Alabama Restaurant and Hospitality Association ‘devastated’ by new Ivey order

Time to open up, using care, intelligence & common sense! Folks don’t have to go out, but in America they should have the right to choose.

The Alabama Restaurant and Hospitality Association stated that it "is devastated for our restaurants and their employees who are ready to go back to work."

03/30/2020

Let’s support our great restauranteurs who are staying open for us, on the front line as essential businesses!

Open For DeliveryYour local restaurants have always been there for you. For traditions and celebrations and first dates and quick bites on busy afternoons. All made possible by the 15.6 million hardworking people who serve you day in and day out. And now, even when their front doors are shut, their....

03/23/2020

As a small business that directly supports the foodservice, grocery & health care industries, all obviously declared "essential" by Jefferson County, AL, we are also open for business, and taking all precautions as recommended to protect our customers and personnel during these unprecedented times. Working together smartly, we will make it through this, as Americans always have. Take care everyone, and may God bless our nation and the world with healing.

03/23/2020

5 ways to help local restaurants during the COVID-19 outbreak

5 ways to help local restaurants during the COVID-19 outbreak

Restaurants throughout Alabama are struggling to keep the doors open; here's how you can help.

03/07/2020

AIB's 2020 Tech Training Seminar featuring Ice-O-Matic & Everpure is fast approaching on March 18th! Go to our web site (see link under Comments) for more info and to sign up!

03/07/2020

TRAINING SEMINARS - Automatic Ice & Beverage, Inc.

AIB's 2020 Tech Training Seminar featuring Ice-O-Matic & Everpure is coming up soon (March 18th)! Click here for more info and to sign up: http://www.aibnow.com/training-seminars/

12/24/2019

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10/25/2019

“Vision without ex*****on is hallucination”

10/01/2019

Current temp is the SHADE on our shipping dock! 102.6° In OCTOBER! 🥵 Not complaining in our business- keep summer going! 😁

08/30/2019

Pentair

Pentair

The Everpure Conserv HE-3 is Pentair's first RO system that is completely connected, so you can have real-time data of what's going on with your water. This system is easy to use, convenient, and is highly efficient, meaning this RO system has a great return on investment.

08/29/2019

- an old newspaper article we recently unearthed from early ‘80’s, where AIB’s founder, Lewis McMillan, reflected on his life in business, after being born into poverty & growing up during the depression, which instilled in a strong desire to succeed. An American success story!

08/23/2019

We’ve got the coolest fans at AIB! 😂👍🏼

08/19/2019

08/13/2019

At AIB, we love it HOT!!! 🔥🌞😄 (actual temp in the SHADE on our shipping dock!)

08/03/2019

08/01/2019

1992 AIB Group photo 😊 Founders Lewis & Mary Lou McMillan Center. 8 of the personnel in this photo are still with AIB. A couple are retired, and unfortunately 8 are deceased. Today, AIB’s AVERAGE tenure is approximately 25 years! What a loyal and amazing staff we are blessed with.

07/29/2019

07/25/2019

AIB founder Lewis McMillan working the Ice-O-Matic booth at the 1971 NRA (National Restaurant Association) trade show. AIB is today the oldest IOM Distributor in the world, representing the line for nearly 60 years!

07/19/2019

At AIB, we love it HOT! And the HOTTER the BETTER! 😁 (Got Ice?) 😄

06/22/2019

Summer officially begins today- our favorite time of year at AIB! Bring on the HEAT!!! 😁

03/21/2019

AIB’s 2019 Tech Service Training Seminar was a huge success with a great turnout from across Alabama. One person came from Kentucky! The virtually “Sold-Out” Seminar attendees learned a lot from factory personnel on hand from Ice-O-Matic & Everpure. Here’s a quick clip of Josh Wilcox with IOM, breaking down the removal of an evaporator on the new CIM Elevation Cubers. Awesome cutting edge CAD animation was amazing. Thanks to all who attended!