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Coffee machine for lots of people to use, not home

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Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 07:04

For a work environment that doesn’t cost a million pounds & is quite easy to clean (so probably no milk fr other 🤢)
any recommendations?

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FedUpWithBriiiiick · 28/04/2023 07:20

www.nespresso.com/pro/uk/en/

Nespresso do a professional range. Seems to be all pods so no mess.

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Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 07:26

Do you have experience of them? Are they robust? My experience of shared machines is that someone is eventually too rough, but pods should be less messy so that’s good. We could put a recycling box for the empties I guess.

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TheThirdKit · 28/04/2023 08:07

Jura C9.
We hire one, it's £54pm, it's bean to cup and you can disable the milk. It makes amazingly good coffee and espresso and is super easy to clean and refill.

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Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 08:31

Thanks for the suggestion unfortunately a contract won’t be possible, not sure if it’ll be much below a tenner a month each one you take out tea drinkers. Hmm

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MissLC · 28/04/2023 08:34

We had an Aldi version of a nespresso machine for our small office (up to 25 people) and that was super easy to keep clean and it was quite unbreakable.
We moved offices and it got left behind and the office has significantly less people now (especially coffee drinkers) so they bought a filter coffee machine

sashh · 28/04/2023 08:37

Are you in a hard water area?

I have a tassimo but it has to be descaled every so often.

FedUpWithBriiiiick · 28/04/2023 09:07

Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 07:26

Do you have experience of them? Are they robust? My experience of shared machines is that someone is eventually too rough, but pods should be less messy so that’s good. We could put a recycling box for the empties I guess.

I only have experience of the home ones which I like a lot. I suppose it depends on how many staff and your budget!

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Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 09:30

Soft water area, good thought! It would be good if it made a variety of drinks, it wil only be used by staff, but to provide drinks for customers as well. Will need to look int the price of pods altho they seem very wasteful.
good news about the Aldi one hadn’t thought of looking there I will investigate

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FlounderingFruitcake · 28/04/2023 09:32

I’ve used the nespresso professional ones in a few offices and they’re mess and fuss free. The only drama was when an employee tried to steal it, then tried to claim he was only borrowing it for a dinner party!

sashh · 28/04/2023 09:47

Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 09:30

Soft water area, good thought! It would be good if it made a variety of drinks, it wil only be used by staff, but to provide drinks for customers as well. Will need to look int the price of pods altho they seem very wasteful.
good news about the Aldi one hadn’t thought of looking there I will investigate

My council recycle pods. I only drink black coffee so for me it is an efficient way of offering other people different drinks.

Hazelnuttella · 28/04/2023 09:48

I think a pod one would be best for shared use.
You can use cheaper pods in the nespresso one, you don’t have to get the nespresso pods.

JuneShitfield · 28/04/2023 09:56

One office I worked at had a big pro-style Nespresso machine. It was alright — until it broke down, then you had a bunch of people waiting around uselessly like toddlers because the engineer couldn’t come for three days. They usually insist on tying you into a pod contract as well.

The best solution I ever saw for decent coffee for a low cost was a couple of those percolator/drip machines. The kind you see in US police stations on TV cop dramas! They’re cheap, they cater to multiple people and they seldom break.

cannaethink · 28/04/2023 10:05

I’ve worked at places with a filter coffee machine which I think has worked great. It makes a big jug of coffee, and keeps it hot. As long as everyone knows how to use it then it never runs out.
I can only imagine a big queue for a pod machine as it slowly pours one cup at a time.

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Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 10:10

ah slow then. Although there are probably ways round that, not a classic office environment where everyone waits for coffee before getting started

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SleepingisanArt · 28/04/2023 10:19

For heavy use you definitely need to go professional or expensive! We had a Jura bean to cup at work (customers and staff) bought a refurbished on so there was an initial outlay for the machine but it came with a 1 year warranty which included a service. It did have a milk frothy but was easy to clean (you run a cleaning solution through it and then rinse with clean water - 5 mins at the end of the day).

JuneShitfield · 28/04/2023 10:19

Cameraduck · 28/04/2023 10:10

ah slow then. Although there are probably ways round that, not a classic office environment where everyone waits for coffee before getting started

Well with the drip machines someone sets it going in the morning and then it just burbles away all day. You’re not waiting around for it — unless you happen to use the last of the brew, in which case you chuck in a new filter and pile of ground coffee and set it off again.

That said, if you do need genuinely on-demand coffee individual by individual, a pod machine is probably more appropriate. The compromise for that convenience with those is a) the cost and b) you need to recycle the pods.

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