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Close to what? You cant compare an esp machine to filter machines and neither of them to percolators.
You are talking office. I wouldnt put a percolator in an office...Ive seen people brew up a 30 cupper in the morning and leave it until lunchtime. Perc coffee when made properly (and its freshly made) is fine, its the management of it by staff that dips out.
Better then to use a filter machine because there is less coffee brewed in a sitting and more likelihood of it all being drunk straight up instead of having it sit on a warming cycle til lunchtime.
There is nothing wrong with not having espresso / cappuccino.
Ive also seen manual espresso machines badly managed in offices and particularly those in which there is no one responsible for it. Then you get many people all using it, most of them without any real knowledge, no-one using the same technique, the place is a mess, no one cleans up etc etc etc. But if you do make someone responsible for it you are taking someone from their real work duties which you are paying them to do, to be responsible for a coffee station which they quickly get tired of because they dont seem to do much else than clean up after everyone else.....
Enter auto coffee machines, which are easier to deal with in work situations although you still need someone to be responsible for it.
But I wouldnt take the cheap option and prefer in a work situation, to use only machines with an auto frother function if not a "one touch" operation for milk coffee. Steam pipes in a work situation need to be decommissioned in most cases so they cant be used....they are the worst causes of employees not cleaning up after themselves.
I am not familiar with the Delonghi model you mentioned, and in the Jura range of autos I think the cheapest one touch & auto froth machine would be around 3 thou....but they are built for the purpose with 2 thermo blocks not one, and are classed as "office coffee" rather than domestic. Of course if you want proper ongoing back up, you would engage an office coffee professional rather than buying such a machine from a dept store where when you eventually return with service issues, you will be told to "speak to the hand" and go find the service agent.
Im sorry but pod machines dont do it for me for a variety of reasons not the least of which is.....In the Jura factory in Switzerland there are two large perspex cases standing about as big as an average sized person. One of them is empty except for 8 empty packets of coffee in the bottom. The other is virtually full of packaging. The one with the 8 empty packets represents the amount of packaging used to make so many hundred coffees using an auto espresso machine (or anything non pod). The one that is full of discarded packaging is for the same number of coffees made with a well known pod machine brand.
You need a delonghi nespresso, harvey norman have it on special atm
Its normally $379. It comes with the auto milk frother.
Be warned though, pods can only be sourced through nespresso at approx .70c each. Also dont expect any great flavours compared to your home machine. To be honest I think a Nescafe blend 43 is better than those pods! 8-)
I work in an office and there is about 6 people who would love a half decent reasonable brew half way through the day. At home I use an ECM Giotto and im spoilt.
Problem is, , at work we are lazy , so a manual machine just wont do. Too much time and hassle.
I have looked at the Delonghi EN680M
Ideally, a Pod machine that froths the milk from a container that unclips to put in the fridge. The less mess the better.
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