Espresso machine rental is a great way to dip your toe into the coffee machine market. Track through the Internet and the choice of commercial machine is endless - do you go for Faema, Gaggia, La Mazocco, Futurmat,…….

I think there are over 25 brands and some rebadged versions. They cant all be the best can they?

This is why Verde Coffee thought the best way forward was “to put their money where their mouth was” and offer the rental option - again not 12 months or even 6 months but a monthly contract on one months notice. Verde are so confident that they know all their customers fall in love with the looks and reliability -and the clincher for customers is that after 12 months you can buy at a discounted price ~ so how can the customer loose?

The option is to read all marketing and buy a machine but if after 3 months you dont like it ,its broken down several times you are unfortunately ’stuck with it’

The Verde Coffee option is the best answer to all of this. Call 0870 900 0087 for more information.

Coffee is an enormous market -second only to oil - so which companies produce the product? The list is endless so perhaps a better question is who to buy my coffee from? Verde coffee price themselves on fresh coffee because we have a very short supply line- From green bean to customer in less than a week. Some larger companies may get the coffee beans to their distributors several months after that.

Of course coffee has a reasonable shelf life- it is drinkable up to a year after packing but the flavour does deteriorate considerably. Alternative brands to look for are Lavazza, one of the biggest brands in Italy, Seagofredo -again italian and Illy.

Illy is the master of spin and marketing - how else can you explain people paying up to three times the normal price for Brazilian coffee. I admire the company enormously -they love their beans but you can buy the same or better quality for a lot less!

Lavazza is excellent and reasonably priced whereas if you look at the Seagafredo beans they are small, broken and mainly robusta. They make a reasonable espresso but wouldn’t be my choice.

Who would you recommend?

Do you have a favourite I havn’t mentioned?

Please let us know.

Free promotion material is available for the monin syrups to help you market a growing segment of the coffee trade. This consists of pourer, stands and signs -just let us know.

These excellent coffee syrups will help you increase sales and profit.

Have you used them? Let me know your experience.

Alto Espresso Machine

The Alto is the latest espresso machine to get our strip and rebuild treatment -it has clearance under the group heads for large take away cups as well as, of course, cups of normal size.

As the above coffee machine is one of many how do you choose what to buy? Do you buy new or second hand? Forgetting the fact we sell both new and second hand whoever you consider buying off the following questions need to be answered -

• If I buy second hand how long is the warranty?
• Is it an on-site warranty?
• what functions must the machine carry out? -Tea, take away cups, [ tea - need large boiler, for a two group at least 12 litres. For take away cups additional clearance ]
• How good is the back up?
• What is the engineer response time?
• What stock of spare parts are held. If your main income earner in the cafe is down you don’t want to wait while someone tries to source parts overseas.
• How many cups of coffee etc do you plan to make a day? a traditional espresso machine 2 group will make about 300 cups per hour, a bean 2 cup 400 a day for major machine like a Franke. As a comparison a Jura X7 is designed for 250 cups a day.
• Will you have a busy period ie lunch? Forget a bean 2 cup!
• What sort of finance deal is offered.

The list is not exhaustive but is really the absolute minimum you need to know -don’t allow anyone to bamboozle you, You need clear honest answers to help you set up.

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I am immensely grateful for the the shot coffee ratings blog for pointing out that the venerable Swiss - renowned for making watches, being super good at engineering have developed a machine for tasting coffee.

Also well known for their bean 2 cup coffee machines this is another interesting development - still think a human possess the ability to discern tastes more effectively than a machine but who knows! To see more info go to http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080207_espresso.htm

Just was looking at a so called informative article on espresso and just noticed throughout the article that the author had a problem in spelling the name of the product he was writing about.

It doesn’t give you much faith then about the [mis-] information it contained - just a blatant google bait and advert for some obscure web site.

Just for the record the correct spelling is espresso.

Jura have made a good choice on choosing Roger Federer - who seems to have swayed the female population into buying their coffee machines. They are good machines but quite pricey!

The Cunill CT-1 espresso grinder is our most popular -a big seller because of its great features.

Now available in our shop these ex-rental grinders are fantastic value. A proper commercial coffee bean grinder it will give years of trouble free service.

Whilst it is adjustable grind is flexible its design makes it perfect for the production of espresso coffee. Able to grind several kilos of coffee a day it will dispense between 5 and 12grms per shot, up of course to you to decide but probably the most common size recommended for most brands of coffee is 7grms.