Discontinued Operations - Major classes of line items constituting earnings from discontinued operations before income taxes related to MFS (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Results of discontinued operations
Provision for income taxes	$ 0.0	$ 0.0	$ 0.6
Spinoff | Manitowoc Food Service
Results of discontinued operations
Net sales			219.6
Cost of sales			141.5
Engineering, selling and administrative expenses			48.3
Amortization of intangible assets			5.2
Asset impairment expense			0.0
Restructuring expense			0.3
Separation expense			27.7
Other			0.0
Total operating costs and expenses			223.0
Operating loss			(3.4)
Other expense			(2.2)
Loss from discontinued operations before income taxes			(5.6)
Provision for income taxes			0.6
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes			$ (6.2)