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  • #16
    Hi mariner,

    This was along the lines of a question I recently asked here. I thought the number would be around 80 shots / single coffee's per KG. A business broker I was dealing with said 80 also which made me cautious hence I approached a very good Barista, bye that they are the owner operator and exceptional at their art. They said if you can conserve your beans then you could hope for 70 per KG. The problem in calculating revenue is the combination of pours such as double ristretto's per coffee and medium and large coffees as the revenue is incremental per extra shot. I counted them serving 10 coffee's per 4 minutes in the 830 - 9am slot.

    Cheers Yabba

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    • #17
      Hi everyone,

      1st post here, I am a Barista in a reasonably busy cafe/restaurant I suppose you would call it, open for Breakfast and Lunch 7 days.

      On a busy day we push out about 250-320 a day with 2 baristas on the machine a 3 head La marazocco and making plenty of other drinks, smoothies and milkshakes etc. Our busy days are the weekend as we aren't in a really corporate area and are more food focused than coffee focused, but like to think we do both quite well.

      We average about 40kgs a week, on a busy day about 16-18 cartons of full cream and about half that of skim.

      Anyway glad I came across the forum and hope to contribute when I can.

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      • #18
        At my (former) coffee kiosk at Melbourne at Melbourne Uni we would regularly pump out between 800 and 1000 per day and that was just crazy busy!

        At my current cafe we regularly make around 200 coffees per day during the week and 400 coffees per day on the weekend - and we definitely have our busy periods (and our down time)

        But using tripple sized baskets and allowing for wastage I would say that 50 coffees per kg is a far more realistic usage figure - and any cafe using similar methodology would i imagine be producing similar figures - also in many instances, milk is not delivered daily but every couple of days...

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        • #19
          Hmm it's really interesting to see some of the other figures in this thread.

          The venue I work at does a fairly even spread of service between food and beverage, we open 7 days.

          We have 1 barista manning the machine with a BA (barista assistant) stepping in to run shots during peak periods such as morning rush on a Sat/Sun. Outside of these hours its a solo operation, however we have our house blend and a single origin sitting on a La Marzocco Swift which is a fully automatic dosing and tamping unit. This obviously significantly reduces production time so it makes it perfectly feasible for one barista to handle all but the busiest trade. Similarly to askthecoffeeguy we run tripple sized baskets and have minimal wastage (auto dose/tamp for two of the four coffees we offer) and I would estimate that around 50 coffees per kg is a pretty accurate usage figure. Weekdays we push out about 300 - 380 coffees with iced drinks, teas, chai's and hot chocolates on top of those figures. Weekends we typically do an additional hundred to two hundred coffees so 400 - 580. In terms of kg's a week we would do somewhere in the vicinity of 45 - 50 kg a week.

          In regards to milk usage; well as it so happens ordering milk is a responsibility that falls to the barista that opens in the morning; for the sake of convenience we text our milk supplier (full cream/skim) with our daily order (except for the weekend, we order on friday for Sat/Sun). So it just so happens that I have a fairly decent list of our recent usage:

          I won't bother listing days of the week, just a set of values per day, it should be enough to give you the idea. Also keep in mind that I don't open every day of the week I work 5 days a week, but only 2 to 3 of those shifts will I be ordering milk, so this isn't a straight snapshot of a Monday through to Sunday week. We also use soy milk, but have a different supplier, I would estimate that we do somewhere in the vicinity of 6 - 12 litres of soy a day.

          Units are crates, so 1 = 1 crate which is equal to 18 litres of milk; fc = full cream, sm = skum...er skim milk

          fc 3, sm 1
          fc 3, sm 1
          fc 3, sm 0
          fc 3, sm 0
          fc 4, sm 2
          fc 3, sm 1
          fc 4, sm 2
          fc 2, sm 0
          fc 2, sm 2
          fc 6, sm 2
          fc 4, sm 1
          fc 2, sm 1
          fc 7, sm 3
          fc 3, sm 1
          fc 2, sm 1
          fc 3, sm 1
          fc 7, sm 3
          fc 1, sm 2
          fc 7, sm 2
          fc 4, sm 2
          fc 3, sm 0
          fc 7, sm 3
          fc 3, sm 0
          fc 2, sm 1
          fc 4, sm 1

          I could go on, but I am sure this gives anyone interested enough of an idea of the kind of volume we do.

          Breaking it down and balancing out my ordering along with the other barista I work with, I would say we do approximately 80 litres of milk a week day and probably an additional 20 litres a day on the weekend.

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