Spent a few hours yesterday with one of our self serve machine suppliers.....in the flesh, going through a couple of their models on our test bench including pulling the bodies, getting inside, and .....talking numbers.
Around the "middle" 4 thousands will get you a machine that will be great say around 40 a day, but after that you will have to hike up to around 7 thou.
The ability to do the extra numbers is not necessarily to do with the actual workings in the machines although there really are internal modifications & upgrades that allow making the extra coffees easier on the bigger volume rated models.
Where the more obvious differences lie is in the ease of management of the smaller (say under 50 a day) models. Whoever is the designated responsible person for the coffee machine, will find themselves getting pretty tired of filling the small water container and coffee hopper, & emptying the tiny drip / dregs trays. The larger machines have larger capacities everywhere, and plumb in and drain out.
And for offices with that kind of capacity, for employees whose only interest is to get the cuppa and get back to the desk without having to do anything else, spending the money on purpose design / build equipment is the only way.
Even to buy the minimum spec auto OFFICE coffee machine, say a Saeco Royal Cappuccino, at roughly 2 thou, and only rated at around 20 to 30 a day from memory, with TINY bean water and dregs / waste capacities, you would want say a minimum of 3 machines for your numbers, which equals 6 thou anyway and you are stuck with tiny machines with limited self serve selections that will wear out quickly in that environment.
Its kind of like buying a ute & making 4 rounds of deliveries a day, instead of buying a truck and making one round a day with the total and doing it more comfortably and for a longer term..............!
By the way, we do have a solution

Hope that helps,
A.


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