Machine
Coffee machines for a large office
Coffee machines for a large office are still automatic bean-to-cup. At forty people the kitchen stops being a side issue. The morning becomes a queue. The "we'll just duck downstairs" habit becomes a floor emptying, or a warehouse office sending a run to the shops. People buying their own does not scale either. It just hides the bill.
The machine category does not change. The planning does.
Volume first
Forty people, two cups a day, about 7 grams, twenty working days: in the region of 11 to 14 kilograms a month. That is the same working sum as the twenty-person version, scaled. A hundred people is a conversation for the phone, not this page. Ring 0423 980 500.
Meeting rooms, visitors, and a canteen that also pours will move it more than headcount alone.
Queues
If everyone hits the kitchen at once, one machine can feel slow. We will not quote cups per minute. Tell Brian how the morning actually looks. Two machines is a normal conversation. Inventing a café two-group "because you are big" is usually the wrong category. You still want a button.
Arico installs the Saeco Royal Plus. For a large floor, say so on the call.
Downstairs does not scale
The café run at forty people is a serious leak of time and of people paying for their own drinks. Instant as the official option will not hold. Pods, including a commercial Nespresso, become a real line item plus a bin. Check your own capsule invoices. Pods versus bean-to-cup is the comparison to run on those receipts.
Service has to be named
A large site cannot wait on a boxed warranty return. Who comes when it stops is the filter. On our arrangement, servicing and tech support stay at $0 while beans are ordered monthly. From as little as 40 cents a cup.
Milk and water
Forty people on milk drinks need a milk plan: fridge space, a jug, a wipe-down. We do not sell a café milk bar, and we will not claim the Saeco Royal Plus is one.
Water for a large floor is worth raising on the call. Refilling a tank all morning is how the machine becomes a chore.
If you are forty people on instant "until we sort coffee", you already have a policy. Put the machine in, order the kilograms against a real count, and treat the kitchen like the rest of the floor: something that has to work on a Monday.