I bought this product for our concession trailer to speed up the serving of ice cream. We hand dipped all of our ice cream which took a lot of time. We can use this soft serve machine & save time, plus is a better ice cream. It is a very easy machine to operate & clean as well. Only drawback is that the machine is heavy, so once you get it in place leave it. In 65* outside temp, it made soft serve ice cream in less than 8 minuets. Very nice machine.