Commercial coffee, specified properly

How we work

Buying a commercial coffee machine is a longer conversation than most online purchases. Two venues with identical daily sales can need completely different equipment because one serves everything in a ninety-minute breakfast window and the other trickles along all day. So we start with questions. What does your peak look like? Who is operating the machine, and how often does that person change? What water are you on? How much counter depth do you actually have once the cups are stacked? The answers usually narrow the field faster than any spec sheet. Our catalogue runs to 78 products across sixteen categories, and it is deliberately broad: stocking several formats means we can recommend on merit rather than on what happens to be in the warehouse.

The range

• Commercial bean-to-cup machines for consistent, one-touch service
• Traditional espresso machines for barista-led venues
• Filter and batch brewers for volume brewed coffee
• Jura machines and our Ciao branded range
• Vending machines for unattended and self-serve locations
• Ex-demo and refurbished units for tighter budgets
• Coffee beans, takeaway cups and lids, glassware and cleaning products
• Shmoo milkshake mixes, slush syrups and slush cups for cold drinks sales

We supply independent cafes and coffee shops. Offices fitting out a staff kitchen or a client-facing reception. Hotels running breakfast service and room trays. Forecourts and convenience stores where coffee to go is a margin line that matters. Leisure venues, gyms, garden centres and visitor attractions. Small hospitality businesses that need commercial reliability without a corporate procurement process.

Why we do the fitting and the fixing ourselves

It would be easy enough to sell a machine and hand the customer a telephone number for somebody else when it goes wrong. We kept both jobs inside the business instead. Our own engineers fit the equipment we sell, and the same team looks after it afterwards, servicing included, when something stops mid-shift. The difference that makes is less about speed than about memory: whoever comes out already knows what was specified for your site and why, so you are not explaining your counter, your water and your busiest hour to a stranger every time.

What can actually be arranged for any given fit depends on the equipment and on the building it is going into, which makes it a question for quotation stage rather than delivery day. The delivery and installation page covers what to have ready.

Finding us in Haslingden

We work out of Unit 8-12 on Carrs Industrial Estate in Haslingden, up in the Rossendale valley. It is a warehouse and workshop rather than a shop counter, so we ask people to book. Customers are very welcome to come and look at machines by appointment, and a call to 01706 216822 gets a time in the diary and tells you what is actually standing on the floor that week. Stock turns over, which is precisely why an arranged visit beats turning up.

Lancashire is where the machines and the people sit; it is not the edge of the map. We send machines and consumables out to businesses the length of the country, and none of the advice changes with the mileage. Our full address, our opening hours and the practicalities of arranging a visit are all set out on the contact page.

Worth knowing before you ring: another company trades under a name much like ours, and it is not us. To be certain which business you are dealing with, the details that identify this one are listed on that same page.