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Coffee,
Tea and Espresso
Caffeine makes for the most wanted ingredient in our daily hot beverage
consumption, the world over. Whether you serve it as a cup of coffee or
tea, in the restaurant business, this is something that will sell the
most. One often comes across friends and colleagues bonding over a hot
cup in a restaurant. Most appointments are made over this stimulant beverage:
“Let’s meet up for a cup of coffee.” As a restaurateur,
you cannot afford to ignore the coffee league. And for what all you need
to get that hot cup – whether as a café latte, or a cappuccino,
or as an Irish coffee order – to your guest, we will tell you at
AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Some like it HOT!
Air Pots and Coffee Servers or Carafes
Now, this one is a useful piece of kitchen equipment for the restaurateur
as well as for the user at home – an air pot. It is a vacuum-sealed
or airtight flask or pot that keeps your coffee or tea warm over a given
period of time. It usually comes with a lever top to help pour out the
required amount of coffee and keep the rest of it warm in the air pot.
Winco and Bunn offer air pots in the regular and decaf versions with a
capacity of 1.9 liter to three liters. Bunn also offers elegant thermal
servers in shining black finish, with a twin rack position to place the
coffee cup or mug.
An economy teapot, which, as the name suggests, serves few and has a limited
capacity to keep the beverage warm, is a good service option for regular
use. Plastic carafes, on the other hand, are often used in room service
and outdoor service. They could be coordinated with room furniture or
color scheme as well. A coffee server with a 1.5-gallon capacity from
Bunn will give you the option of making quick sales in disposable cups
over the counter.
Winco, Bunn, World Tableware and Johnson-Rose Corp. offer a range of servers
and carafes, listed on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Coffee Warmers, Brewers
If the scope of your business is huge, demand is high and coffee sells
like hotcakes, you have to keep up with the demand by being innovative.
Most coffee serving restaurant businesses would learn to cope up with
demand by warming or reheating coffee using multiple heating and coffee
warming devices. Just place the pot over an automatic coffee brewer with
two or more warmers. You could also go for a coffee brewer minus the warmer.
These warmers are compact machines that allow the use of up to three heating
points, with smart utilization of space – ideal for over the counter
service. Coffee warming devices like these can also be used for other
heating purposes as well. Bunn and Cecilware give you smart warming options
for your kitchen or restaurant.
A side by side warmer is a dual coffee warmer which lets you heat two
pots at the same level. Apart from this, there are coffee brewers with
enough space to support air pots. Such convenient air pot coffee brewer
machines are quite a rage in the restaurant business, because of their
utility benefits. You could also pick up a liquid coffee dispenser if
it suits your needs. The one from Bunn comes with a twin-head dispensing
option. In fact, brewing is one department where you need an expert in
your staff. It is the business of making the perfect brew that could spell
your success. Most of the restaurant business is through the sale of these
beverages, and a fine brew can keep your customers coming back for more.
Stack your warmers with glass pots with durability, and serve right off
the warmer.
If it’s the cooler version of tea that brings your restaurant some
great beverage business, you could order an ice tea brewer with a capacity
of three to ten gallons. Modestly priced, these ice tea brewers can be
quite economical in the long run.
At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, we have a lot of offers related to kitchen
equipment brewing. For one, you could pick up a 220 Volt, used, San Marino
Double Head Espresso brewer machine for less than one-third its original
cost. That’s what we call a great bargain!
Pour it out
Beverage or Tea Dispensers
In a reference to the famous beverage of all times, coffee, by the famous
poet of the late 19th century, T S Eliot, ‘I have measured out my
life with coffee spoons,’ he spells out mankind’s predicament
with our dependency on coffee, that continues till date. To make our lives
easier, inventions of great value were made – like the beverage
dispensers that give a constant supply of coffee or tea. Choose from a
variety of dispensers from Winco, Johnson-Rose Corp., Bunn and Cecilware.
A hot water dispenser works well if you want to serve tea with tea bags
and instant coffee. Hot water dispensers with a capacity of up to two
gallons and a temperature limit of 200 Degrees are available from Bunn.
Another popular version of the beverage is Iced Tea. Dispensers come in
stainless steel finish with two compartments and a tap for pouring tea.
There are other models with a box-like shape and a semi-plastic make,
with a capacity of two to ten gallons. Both the options are available
from Cecilware and Bunn’s kitchen supplies. In fact, you can put
this iced tea dispenser on your counter and catch the eye of the customer,
with an effective blue display. To meet your needs for greater demand
for iced tea, you can choose between single-tap and multi-tap models.
For effective space management, you can opt for a thermal server rack
with two positions for placing the dispenser, available from Bunn. Stainless
steel cream and milk servers are available from Winco, to help you serve
clients who like to add some white to their black tea or coffee. Thermal
carafes and beverage servers from Winco with a capacity of up to one liter
are available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Another interesting variant
in the tea dispenser’s range is the gooseneck teapot from Johnson-Rose
Corp. You could also pick up an elegantly styled coffee urn with a capacity
of 55 cups.
Espresso or Cappuccino machines
For relatively limited requirements in smaller restaurants, modestly priced
kitchen equipment like a small coffee grinder from Cecilware is a good
option. It occupies less space as compared to the Espresso machines priced
much higher, and with greater serving capacity than the regular espressos.
Spillovers
Coffee Cleaning Supplies
Just as it is hard to get the aroma and flavor of strong coffee out of
your mind, it is equally hard for the spillovers of coffee to be cleaned
up from your restaurant floors and the stains on your tablecloth. While
your staff should be trained to deal with these cleaning issues, along
with good, effective detergents, but for other cleaning requirements in
the coffee brewing space, we have the following kitchen accessories that
you can choose from.
You would need a coffeemaker brush to clean your busy coffee machine.
It is also available in a semicircular shape for effective cleaning of
the round interiors of the brewer. A coffee urn gauge brush will do the
job well for your coffee urn and pots. The milk dispenser or creamer can
be cleaned with the help of the creamer brush.
The above items are available in batches of 6, 12 and 24, from Carlisle’s
range of coffee cleaning supplies.
Ground Rules
Coffee Grinders
Espresso is one of the most popular forms in which coffee is consumed
the world over. For the perfect blend, you need an expert grinder. A grinder
may give you a brewer interface or it could also be a standalone grinder.
Bunn and Winco give you these options. A coffee grinder with a brewer
interface or even a lower console that allows you to control the quantity
of output, is definitely preferable over an old world grinder. But, go
for the grinders only if you have the space for the service and if you
can afford to focus on coffee sales as an extensive exercise. But if these
beverage sales are just complementing your business, and your mainstay
is the food business, then this investment could wait for a later stage.
The motif of coffee beans printed on your menu card would not be enough
if you want to hook your customers or guests to your brew. You have got
to give them the real thing. A whole coffee bean dispenser from Winco
will do the job. With a transparent plastic container for coffee beans,
it is a visual delight added to the aroma of freshly ground coffee beans.
There’s a Dutch proverb about the world’s favorite hot beverage
that goes, ‘Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.’ Focus
on the brew, and serve with a consistency in the quality, and you will
have your guests addicted to the hot, wet beverage. And as they say, a
lot can happen over coffee, you could make a huge success of your business
enterprise.
Keep it hot!
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Manufacturers:
Admiral Craft
Bloomfield Industries
Bunn-O-Matic
Cecilware
Curtis Co., Wilbur
Dover Metals
Eurodib USA
FETCO Corp.
Franke Coffee Systems
Hamilton Beach
LaCimbali USA Inc.
Maxximum
Nuova Simonelli
Rancilio North America
Schaerer USA
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