Commercial Coffee Machines

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What is a commercial coffee machine?

For an establishment serving food and drink which aspires to providing the complete culinary experience, quality coffee is an essential. Commercial coffee machines let you provide customers with gourmet standard coffee in a variety of styles – be it espresso, cappuccino or latte – prepared from freshly ground coffee beans. Due to the versatility and professional finishes that commercial coffee machines allow, after a little training and experimentation, your staff will soon be producing cups of coffee that you’ll want to photograph rather than drink.

Also known as espresso machines the kind of commercial coffee machine most common to restaurants and bars is the pump driven version. These machines heat water from the mains supply and then use an electric powered pump to pressurise the water and force it through the ground coffee producing a single or double ‘shot’ of espresso with its characteristic ‘crema’ layer of froth.

The number of brewing points on commercial coffee machines vary from one to four. These brewing points, which can be used simultaneously, are also known as ‘groups’ and the black plastic handles which are used to fix the metal filters in place are ‘group handles’. The number of groups determines how many members of staff can use the machine at the same time, so while a small café might only need a 1-Group coffee machine, a large coffee house will probably need a 4-Group machine to cope with the larger volumes its ‘baristas’ are making. In a top of the range machine, each group will have its own water boiler and steam maker to reduce waiting times between brews.

Commercial coffee machines come with a variety of features and optional extras including:

• Steamer nozzle for heating and frothing milk
• Automatic grinder for grinding beans as close to use as possible to ensure freshness. Taking beans from a refillable hopper, these will dispense one shot’s worth of finely ground coffee at a time.
• Brewing heads can automatically terminate the brewing process, so that the operator only has to press a button once, or be semi-automatic, allowing the barista full control over the brew. More sophisticated machines provide greater levels of control over the different stages of the brew process.
• Hot water nozzles provide hot water for Americano coffees and, of course, for teas.
• Water filters prevent your machine from scaling up and provide a better quality cup of coffee.

Commercial coffee machines can be purchased, leased or rented from a variety of suppliers. A typical 2-Group machine will cost in excess of £2,000 so financing and rental options are obviously very popular. A rental agreement will normally include regular servicing and the provision of supplies from coffee beans to specialist cleaning equipment. Proper care of your commercial coffee machine is important to ensure a consistency of quality and speed in your coffee making.

If you don’t have the time required to operate a commercial coffee machine or the demand to justify it, but still want to provide customers with top notch coffee, you may decide to opt for an automatic bean to cup machine instead. Smaller and more economical, bean to cup machines provide a variety of freshly ground and brewed coffees at the touch of a button, freeing up the operator for other tasks.

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