Our favourite coffee is as unique to us as our fingerprint. Maybe it’s a Café Latte with two sugars, an Espresso with a double shot, or perhaps you enjoy a Mocha instead. While many of us know what we want at the hot drinks machine, though, how many of you know exactly what goes into your chosen variety? As we slowly work our way into the week, settle back, and let us teach you all about those key ingredients. We’ll give you a taster: Espresso is apparent in every one!
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Our 55-year history has seen substantial change in the vending industry. Mostly for the better. Hot drinks machines can now craft quality beverages that taste as though they have derived from the coffee shop, and fresh food machines have arrived to offer a viable choice come lunch time. Pair this with technological advancements, such as contactless and mobile payment options, and vending is now the pinnacle of quality, simplicity and security. What we want to talk about today, though, is the emphasis suppliers are putting on stylish design… Read more
Since its apparent birth in the 10th century, the coffee bean has quickly gained a responsibility for masses of hot drinks. The Espresso gives you the lift you need, a Latte offers you a chance to relax, and there’s even a Cafe Mocha to now mix the two elements together through coffee and hot chocolate.
In such a diverse range of ‘regular’ coffees, though, there’s also a wide range of speciality coffees that do enough to send many people into a frenzy. But what actually is a speciality coffee, how does it differ to regular one, and ultimately, why should you care?
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Lyons Coffee Bags
Here at Coinadrink, there’s mounting excitement as we await the arrival of two exciting new machines that are guaranteed to add a certain pizazz to our beverage offer, bringing you even more choice. Let’s take a look…
First off, there’s the new LAVAZZA DRINKS™ KLIX® Momentum.
Momentum
This machine delivers the drinks your people want – and fast! It incorporates an all-new, 5-inch colour touchscreen. Backlit labels streamline the way your staff use the machine, making it easier for them to find and select their favourite drinks.
And when we say ‘their favourite drinks’, we really mean it. The new LAVAZZA DRINKS™ KLIX® Momentum offers a choice of 16 popular drinks, including delicious coffees, teas, café style specialities, cold drinks and soups.
Here’s the low-down:
And as for performance, it delivers drinks fast – in just 17 seconds – making it ideal for all kinds of locations, including visitor areas; hospitals, warehouses, factories and call centres. It’s easy-peasy to operate and maintain too, so it’s like hiring an extra team member that allows your people to grab an drink, get refreshed and get back to work in record time!
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Introducing Coinadrink’s Coffee Tower.
In 2015, Britons spent £7.9bn on coffee. That was an increase of 15% over 2014 and it’s a sign that café culture is tightening its grip on the UK. So, what might this mean for you?
We think it could mean an extra source of income, and here’s why…
Let’s deal with the High-Street players first. There are now more than 20,000 coffee shops in this country; growth that has at its heart a 12% increase in the number of branded coffee chains, according to the Project Cafe 2016 UK report from Allegra World Coffee Portal. They’re turning over – wait for it – £3.3 BILLION per annum!
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Coinadrink’s range of coffee machines is full of star quality – and that’s before we add ‘Karisma’!
Karisma is the new ‘super-automatic’ from N&W, the world’s largest manufacturer of coffee vending machines. N&W is based in northern Italy and much of the company’s success is down to its ability to recreate, in a machine, the subtleties of taste and aroma that characterise the classical Italian espresso experience.
So what makes this machine such a stand-out? It uses fresh milk!
We’ve got a Karisma on test in our workshop right now. You can enjoy all your coffee shop favourites, from a frothy cappuccino to a latte macchiato and everything in between. The quality of the drinks is fantastic, as you’d expect from N&W; but with our customers’ interests at heart, we’re making sure that Karisma is as easy to keep clean, (and healthy), as it is good at making drinks… Read more
Last November, we invited customers to complete a Customer Care Survey. Here’s what we discovered…
It’s always been our philosophy as a company to take a regular, critical look at ourselves and our business and there’s no better way to do this than to ask the people who know us best – our customers – exactly what they think of us.
So, every year, we distribute a Customer Care Survey and for every completed survey we donate £5 to charity. (Last year, through our association with Promise Dreams, we were able to ‘make a promise and deliver a dream’ to a determined young lady called Olivia. You can read Olivia’s moving story here. )
It’s great to be able to help out and the feedback we get from our customers via the survey is massively important to us.
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Remember the story we shared back in November, about our annual ‘Long Service’ dinner? (Click here to read it). We were making the point that the number of Coinadrink staff, who are entitled to attend the ‘do’, (because they’ve been with us for at least twenty-five years), now stands at fourteen. Add to that partners and, of course, Roger and Yvonne and it’s quite a get-together; which is, we’re sure you’ll agree, a pretty amazing fact in this day and age.
So here’s another pretty amazing fact for you: it’s about Stuart Westwood, our popular Service Manager. When he joined our long-service legends in 2013, he was the youngest of the lot. In fact, it’s not possible to be any younger and be a club member…
Stuart Westwood
When word gets around that you’ve got the C500, you might find that you’re just a bit busier than usual…
People tend to pop round more often when they know they’ll be offered a wonderful cup of freshly-brewed coffee – so if that’s not what you want, look away now!
We’re delighted to introduce a brand-new machine to our range, ‘The LAVAZZA DRINKS™ FLAVIA CREATION® 500’. We call it ‘The C500’ for short!
The C500 takes coffee at work to a new level of quality, style and simplicity. These machines are ideal for locations such as offices, boardrooms, reception areas, salons, car showrooms or anywhere else where you want to give a good first impression. Read more