The Saeco Royal Plus coffee machine

The Saeco Royal Plus is the coffee machine Arico installs. It is an automatic bean-to-cup machine: whole beans in a hopper, a grind for that cup, a button. Offices, warehouses, workshops, small businesses, and cafes that want that kind of drink are who it is for.

This page is the machine. How the arrangement works is the commercial side: the Saeco Royal Plus, servicing, and tech support stay at $0 while you order beans from us each month. You pay for the coffee, from as little as 40 cents a cup.

What kind of machine it is

Bean-to-cup, not a pod machine and not a traditional espresso bar.

Whole beans go in the hopper. The machine grinds for the cup you just asked for. You press a button. There is no portafilter, no barista roster, and no training session. Someone fills the hopper, empties the grounds drawer, and keeps water in the tank or on a plumbed line.

That is the same sequence a café uses, minus the person employed to run it. It is why a workplace can have a decent cup at 8:40 without giving someone a second job.

A Nespresso, or any capsule machine, is a different category. Pods do not grind. Nespresso versus bean-to-cup and bean-to-cup versus pods are those comparisons. Check your own capsule price. We will not invent a saving for a site we have not seen.

A traditional group head with a barista is also a different machine. If that is the quote in front of you, say so on the call. We install the Saeco Royal Plus. Hearing the rest of the brief is still useful.

What it is not

It is not a café fit-out. We do not supply milk, cups, or a rebuilt kitchen.

It is not a pod drawer with a workplace badge.

It is not a machine you buy from us and then chase the repair on. You do not own it. You also do not own the breakdown. Servicing and tech support sit with the machine while the monthly bean order continues. We do not publish a same-day promise on this page. Ask on the call. Who services it is that question on its own.

We do not print cups per minute, a tank capacity, or a dimensions sheet here. Those numbers change with the site: how many people hit the kitchen at once, whether the line is plumbed, how long the bench is. Brian works that out from headcount and the room, not from a brochure figure.

What a week on it looks like

Fill the hopper with whole beans. People press a button. Empty the grounds when the drawer needs it. If it is a tank, fill it the way the kettle used to be filled. If it is plumbed, that was agreed before install day, not discovered on it.

Order beans for the month you will drink, not a quarter in the cupboard. An office of twenty is one sketch: about 6 or 7 kilograms if people have two cups a day. A small office is less. A counter that also serves customers is more. The first month is allowed to correct the guess.

If a week runs hot, order extra kilograms. If it runs quiet, do not skip the monthly order to use up a cupboard unless you already over-ordered. The machine continues while that order continues.

Where it goes

A bench with power and water. An office kitchenette, a warehouse tea room, a workshop, a reception that offers visitors a cup, a small cafe that wants a button drink.

Small office coffee machines are the same unit on a smaller bench. Headcount is not a minimum printed on a poster. Getting one installed in Sydney is power, a bench, water, and someone who can let us in. We are in Forestville.

A cafe can take the same machine when the job is a consistent cup without a trained operator. A full espresso bar is the other product. Both enquiries are welcome. The call is how we tell them apart.

How people pay for it

Three ways this category is usually sold:

Buy it, then pay for parts, descaling, and whoever notices it is sick.

Hire or rent it, so a hardware line arrives whether the hopper was used or not. Commercial coffee machine hire in Sydney is that quote.

Take it from Arico at $0 while you order beans each month. That is not rent-to-own. Stop ordering and the arrangement stops. Hire versus a free machine puts the paperwork side by side.

People searching the model name are often comparing the machine itself. People searching "free" are often comparing the invoice. Both land on this Saeco. The drink does not change.

What to ask before you take one

Who grinds the coffee: the machine, a pod, or a person.

Who you ring when it stops, and whether that is a warranty that wants the unit boxed up.

Whether you are paying rent on the hardware as well as paying for the coffee.

Whether the bench has power and water, and whether the water is a tank or a plumber.

What you use now: nothing, instant, pods, a rented commercial machine, or your own machine and a bean problem.

Leave a name, a number, a postcode, and a rough headcount. Brian rings you, usually within a day. Or ring 0423 980 500.