Coffee machine for a small office

A coffee machine for a small office is the case suppliers skip. Ten people, a kitchenette the size of a cupboard, nobody who wants to "own coffee". The same is true of a small warehouse office, a workshop with a tea room, or a shop with a back bench. The options on the table are a jar of instant, a compact pod machine, or expecting people to buy their own.

Headcount is not a reason to drink badly. It is a reason to keep the system small. Small office coffee machines still need to be a drink people will use.

What small actually drinks

Under 15 people, two cups a day, about 7 grams a cup, twenty working days: you are in the 3 to 4 kilogram range a month. That is a working example, not a minimum order. A board day will bump it. A quiet week will not.

The twenty-person version of this sum scales down cleanly. Do not order 10 kilograms because the bag looked cheaper per kilo.

Nespresso for a small office

A Nespresso for a small office, or any compact pod machine, fits the bench. Training is almost none. Capsules still add up once you stop treating them as stationery. Check what you pay per cup on your own receipts.

Compact is not the same as cheap per cup. Bean-to-cup versus pods is the same comparison at any headcount. The bin is just smaller. An automatic coffee machine for a small business can still be bean-to-cup on that same bench.

The café run hits small floors harder

When two of eight people leave for a cup, the floor feels empty. A small business cannot spare that as easily as a floor of eighty. The time cost of downstairs is worse when the group is already thin, and worse again when those people are paying for it themselves.

What Arico puts in

The Saeco Royal Plus is an automatic bean-to-cup machine, not a café group-head. It belongs on a small bench as much as a large one. We install it, we service it, and the hardware stays at $0 while you order beans each month. From as little as 40 cents a cup.

If a few kilograms a month feels too slight to "qualify", it is not. The offer is the monthly order, not a minimum headcount printed on a poster. One call from Brian is enough to see whether the kitchenette has power, water, and space. If it does not, you find out before anyone unboxes anything.

Reception and shared tenancies

A ten-person studio with a reception that offers every visitor a cup will drink like a larger office. Count the visitors. A shared tenancy that "all chips in for pods" is several unofficial coffee policies. Pick one hopper or keep arguing about whose box is whose.

If you do not control the kitchen, the machine still needs a named owner for emptying grounds. "Someone" is how the drawer overflows on a Friday.

A small site that drinks instant "until we grow" usually still drinks instant after it grows. Put the machine in at ten people and the habit is already right when you are twenty-five.