How to choose a Coffee Machine for opening a Cafe

As the treasure of every coffee shop in the town, the quality of the coffee machine has become particularly important, but many friends are confused about how to choose a good coffee machine. I will first discuss with you how to choose a professional semi-automatic coffee machine.

About Brand

It is suggested that we should not buy any brand of domestic coffee machine, it is not that I am unpatriotic, it is really rough for Chinese people to make things, such as those who often repair coffee machines, we will take apart some coffee machines, there is a domestic brand of JAVA, the appearance can definitely be real with JURA, but after opening it, I really realize what is meant by price and goods. And some technical requirements do not meet the due standards for the time being, such as trachoma in solder joints, etc., so the brand had better choose a foreign one. As to whether it is Switzerland, Sweden, Spain or Italy, it is not a big problem. Recently, in recommending several coffee machines from EXPOBAR in Spain, many people asked me where it was made. I explained very clearly that EXPORBAR has four factories all over the world, one of which is in Shanghai. These machines in our family are all produced by the Shanghai factory, and many people show that this is a domestic face. in fact, if you are lucky enough to visit their factory in Shanghai, you will find that from the whole set of machinery and equipment to the engineers on the assembly line are all foreigners, and only the workers on the ground floor are Chinese. in my opinion, this is no different from pure imports, just like a lot of ADIDAS,NIKE are made in Hangzhou. We still treat them as foreign brands. Therefore, foreign brands should be chosen, and production in China should be made.

About technical parameters

In fact, there is usually little difference in the technical parameters of the coffee machine. The two groups of brewing heads are similar in size, weight, voltage and power, and even the capacity of the boiler, and there is little difference in performance and characteristics. I would like to give you a brief introduction to two points. the difference between the high cup version and the low cup version, the difference between manual control and electronic control.

The high-cup version refers to some models with a larger distance from the head to the chassis in order to facilitate the use of take-out cups or mugs, and there is almost no difference in price with the low-cup version, but many models do not produce the high-cup version at all. but if you open a coffee shop in the business district and plan to deliver takeout, a high-cup version of the machine will make you feel a lot of intimate, if you run a high-end coffee shop Custom-made standard cappuccino cups are used, so the impact of the high or low cup version is not great.

Manual control and electronic control refer to the difference between the way of flushing and boiling the head. Manual control is equivalent to a pure mechanical device, which requires barista coffee production technology is relatively high, understand when the extraction degree is just right, when to turn off the water, and even if you are busy in the extraction of coffee, you should also worry about it. Don't forget to turn off the water. There will be electronic control inside the electronic control. You can set the effluent time, and the time can be stopped automatically when the running water arrives. At the same time, you can also control the effluent time manually. The price of manual control and electronic control will be lower. For example, the price of Kimberly-Clark LA CIMBALI M27 manual control version and electronic control version is less than 4,000 yuan. Of course, many machines now have an integrated version of flashlight, which is very convenient, and it is equivalent to double insurance for the coffee machine. If one is broken, you can use the other, unless you really want to be cheap. Otherwise, it is not recommended to buy a simple hand-controlled model.

In fact, a coffee machine can be said to be a good coffee machine as long as it ensures the basic two points. One is that the brewing head can produce continuous pressure and the temperature meets the standard water. Now most double-headed coffee machines are about 11 liters of boiler, which can be said to meet any demand, because there was a customer thank-you meeting for Vanke Real Estate Office, which provided free coffee, and nearly a thousand people gathered in the hall, all waiting. After working with another colleague for two hours, we both belong to the speed is not bad, using an EXPOBAR Aibao elegant series of coffee machine, did not drop the chain, all kinds of touching ah! However, the coffee machine of the third boiler is definitely better, such as Astoria Ostolia Plus 4U, which is the main boiler 8L, and the two independent cooking boilers are 1.2L each, which ensures that the continuous operation will not fall off the chain, but the price of one is also the other two.

Second, the steam nozzle can emit dry steam, and the steam of the steam nozzle comes from the boiler, so it is time to test the boiler whether the steam is dry enough and has a great influence on the foam. When there is something wrong with the steam nozzle, the surface of the foam from the wet steam is so rough that the steam must be dry.

The coffee machine that meets these two points is a coffee machine that meets the standard and can be called a coffee machine of good quality. now the high-end brands on the market, such as the ancestor of FAEMA (Pegasus) semi-automatic coffee machine and the founder of E61, Victoria Arduino (Victoria) looks very elegant and special, high-end representative, the top brand of WMF hotel supplies, in fact, it is not necessary to open a small shop. For example, LA CIMBALI (Kimberly) LA SAN MARCO (St. Marco) ASTORIA (Astoria) EXPOBAR (Astoria) LA MARZOCCO (Ramazoko) RANCILIO (Lanchio) and so on, do not ask me why there is no Delong, Kuncan and so on, those are not professional coffee machines, they belong to the category of small household appliances, as far as I know, any of the above brands of coffee machines can meet the requirements of a professional coffee machine.

At this time, we should pay attention to other points. One is the market share of the brand model you choose. Under normal circumstances, the higher the market share is, the more convenient it is to maintain. If there are only a few machines in an area, dealers usually do not have too many spare parts of this machine, but if there are hundreds of them on the market, if there are any spare parts that need to be replaced, there should be spot at the dealers.

Second, the local reputation and reputation of dealers. In fact, the coffee industry is now very transparent. Several larger coffee trading companies in each region can basically be found on the Internet, but you still have to inspect and feel it on the spot. Don't be too troublesome to compare goods to three companies.

Third, after-sale, be sure to talk about the details and all kinds of possible situations. Signing a contract and usually choosing a good dealer can solve a lot of worries, and generally a trading company will also operate all kinds of materials at the same time, so we all cooperate for a long time.

All integrity-based, I wish you all a prosperous business!

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