5 detailed steps to not regret when choosing the wrong takeaway coffee machine.
Sharing from experience from the mistakes that take away cafe owners make when choosing to buy a coffee machine. Here are 5 detailed steps to choose a quality and affordable takeaway coffee machine.
1. The biggest mistake is to buy cheap machines
Even if you have little capital, once you have decided to open a takeaway shop, you must definitely choose a professional coffee machine, the lowest average price is about 45 million or more, absolutely do not use mini or family machines. office (price range 15~20 million).
The reason is because these machines can only brew up to 50 cups/day, but operating with such a continuous intensity for only 3 months, if the machine is not discarded, it will fail enough to try.
Not to mention the most important issue is the quality of the coffee or how many customers come continuously.
A takeaway coffee brand using a professional coffee machine
Invest 20 million but can only use it within 3 months, it certainly cannot be called cheap.
While a professional machine can serve at least 100~300 cups/day, and can be used for many years (minimum 3 years) if you know how to store and maintain it well.
The advice is that if you are still afraid because the initial investment for a machine is too much, you can choose to rent a coffee machine for about 2~3 million/month depending on the brand.
Conclusion: only buy a professional coffee machine for a takeaway.
2. Important criteria to choose to buy a coffee machine to open a shop.
When buying a machine, you only need to pay attention to the following 2 most important criteria:
Machine capacity
Popular in Vietnam, there are only one group and two groups.
Nuova Simonelli 1 group and 2 groups
Automatic or semi-automatic machines.
The easiest way to distinguish between these two lines is that every few buttons you see are semi-automatic and many buttons are automatic.
+Semi-automatic: (Semi-automatic) AEP with few buttons
+Auto: Automatic SAE multi-button type
3.Criteria to choose where to buy the machine.
A brand of coffee machine can have many different distributors, so remember to pay attention to the following to choose the best place to buy the machine.
+ Warranty and maintenance of the machine (usually for a new machine, it will be a 1-year warranty and periodic maintenance 4 times/year)
+ Is there any free barista training support (if yes, it will reduce the cost, but usually you have to go to school by yourself)
+ Are there genuine replacement accessories or not (during operation, the machine will certainly be damaged, you should pay attention to this accessory factor because it is an important condition to decide whether a machine is durable or not) )
+ If the machine is damaged and needs warranty, is there another machine to replace it temporarily? (Obviously you can't close the shop every time you fail)
+Buy the whole combo set including coffee grinder + blender + blender how much discount (remember to pay attention to this factor to get the best price).
4. The machines on the market today.
Briefly counting, there are more than a dozen brands of dispensers on the market, but to ensure safety and complete paperwork, everyone should buy from brands that are official importers in Vietnam so that they don't have to Worry about poor quality floating goods. For convenience of evaluation, I will divide by the characteristics of the machine:
+ Durability: In terms of durability, no brand can beat Nuova Simonelli and Victoria Arduino. That's why most of the old models for rent on the market today are Nuova Simonelli, because of its remarkable durability.
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+ Price: Among the famous brands and ok quality, the Nuova Simonelli line is the cheapest. As for other brands, the price and quality are quite similar, there is not much difference
5.Some essentials to buy with the coffee machine
I introduce to you some things to buy with the coffee machine so that you know the budget.
Coffee grinder.
The most famous coffee grinder today is Nuova Simonelli, the world's leading brand of grinder, if you have money to buy this, you don't have to worry anymore. The price range is about 20~35 million.
Professional coffee grinder Nuova Simonelli MDX
If you don't have money to buy a grinder, you can buy pre-ground coffee that hasn't burned for the first time, but it's more expensive than the coffee beans you grind yourself.
And there is another option that you can rent, usually people will rent out a full set of blenders + blenders + blenders for about 4-5 million a month.
Tips: You should buy the machine with the brand as I said, which pot is upside down and usually buy 2 items to get a discount.
Water purifier
If you have a long-term investment, it is recommended that you buy a water purifier. A cup of coffee is 90% water so water is very important to have a good cup of coffee.
Water in Vietnam alone has a lot of chlorine remaining, not to mention metals and bacteria in the water. The water used to make coffee must be 100% pure water. If you do not have money to invest in a water purifier, you can use a 20L bottle of pure water, but in the long run, the cost is quite high compared to the filter.
Water purifier set Everpure OSC2
The brand of water purifier used for coffee machines today is Everpure, which costs about 4 to 9 million.
Blender
The most popular and quality is Vitamix (18~20 million), in second place is Blendtec (8~13 million).
Compared to Blentec, I rate Vitamix much higher, because of its ability to puree and, importantly, grind continuously under high pressure, but the machine still runs stably with little damage.
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Blender Vitamix and Blendtec
The second is that the machine has 6 automatic modes, which can be pressed and rotated to do other things to help speed service faster. Blendtec I've used once is not very pure and every time I have to use a wand to poke it so it doesn't get stuck. Generally angry at times.
Note: Vitamix on the market is full of prices, you just choose a place with good price, reputation, decent warranty. Because there are Vitamix machines on the market with a price of 10~12 million 110V, it's a model of unclear origin, you shouldn't be cheap, because electricity in Vietnam is 220V assuming it's genuine, everyone must Buy one more transformer, the price is also how much.
(Sưu tầm: Khởi nghiệp cà phê)
