In the UK alone, around 95 million cups of Coffee are consumed every day. With each one of those either sold in Coffee shops or dispensed from vending machines, there comes coffee grease and oil deposits inside machines which affect both the taste of the drink and the functionality of the machine. To maintain a consistent, good tasting coffee and avoid downtime for repairs, it is essential to keep your most important assets clean. 

In busy periods, Coffee machines can become dirty very quickly, and may seem difficult to clean due to the large number of parts used to dispense a cup of Coffee. Coffee beans leave a trail of oily residue when travelling through machines, and machines can also suffer from scale buildup when water is heated. Although hard water should be addressed with a good water filtration system, it is still important to address any scale deposition which may be occurring within your coffee machine. Furthermore, improper, or irregular cleaning methods will drastically worsen the effects of coffee bean deposits and scale buildup, highlighting the importance of thorough, regular cleaning.

Although daily cleaning cycles may seem inconvenient and perhaps unnecessary, the potential impacts of neglecting them are simply too great to ignore, and can be divided into two separate important issues:

As a coffee shop/vendor, you are marketing one thing to your customers – a good tasting cup of coffee. No matter how expensive your equipment or where your coffee beans are sourced from, ingredients flowing through a dirty machine will never be able to produce a consistent, good tasting cup. In a hugely saturated and highly competitive market, your product will very quickly become less favourable than its nearby alternatives, which can be very damaging to sales. 

Dirty equipment producing poor tasting coffee also diminishes the impact of any initial investment you may have made in expensive coffee brewing equipment, as well as the cost of premium ingredients, as you will no longer be producing a premium product.

It’s one thing not providing the quality to meet customer needs, but machine breakdown will leave you unable to produce anything at all. Once again, this makes your initial investment in high quality equipment somewhat redundant and leaves you with an expensive bill to replace the equipment. On top of this, the downtime needed to order parts and arrange for an engineer to come and fix the equipment will significantly affect one of your primary revenue streams.

Now we’ve highlighted the potentially catastrophic effects of neglecting your equipment, you may want to know exactly how to implement appropriate cleaning cycles. Thankfully, Abbeychart have a range of cleaning products essential in preserving your equipment.

As drinks dispense experts, we want to enable you to provide the best possible cup of coffee to your customers. To view our range of coffee machine cleaning products, click here. If you’d prefer to speak to one of our experts regarding the cleaning of your machine, or your current water filtration system, please contact us. Please note, you can also get a free BRITA Water test kit to see if hard water may be affecting your equipment.