Yep, it's a fair operation for sure. Interesting to watch activity in the roasting room. They just paid a large sum for an automatic bagging machine as manual bagging was becoming too onerous. They also have a barista school on site.
That looks like a fun machine. Do you get training during orientation? IMHO, that would the most important part of the new hire orientation.... along with the bathrooms and parking.
My cousin, back in the Old Country, has a Faema at their bar.... a three head machine I think it was.
Yes, what attracted me to the Profitec ( we have the 500 ) is that they minimized chrome and looks and put the money into the quality of the Internals. Our previous machine was an Expobar which had very little chrome but lots of stainless steel. At 25 years old it I retired it because parts were no longer available... but I still sold it for parts for 500 bucks!
IMHO, most "prosumer" Italian machines tend to be too fancy.
The professional machines are a different thing... They're work horses indeed.
The simple boiler jobs.... are interesting but the E61 group head is what ensures a consistent great cup of espresso. The lever, well. that's icing on the cake for home or small office use. For commercial use, the automatics with their built in buttons and timers offer consistency. We drunk lots of good coffee in Spain last year. The funniest thing was that my cousin was happy to make me double shots all day long, but he refused to make me ristrettos, (with water), lungos, drip or Americanos.
He's a traditionalist.... the only thing that goes with an espresso is sugar and a cigarette. 😉
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Sounds like a fun way to keep busy in your retirement. Fixing coffees is very challenging and satisfying.
I'm just the sales manager so it's not really my job. However we're a small team and sometimes it's more optimal for me to fix things rather than send out a tech.
I draw the line at electrical work as I'm not certified. Anything mechanical is fair game.
Today I had to do a 700km round trip through the country side to deal with 2 minor steam tap issues that nevertheless bothered important customers.
Not the highest volume customers, but ones that pay their bills before their due and continually generate more customers for me.
Quite a lovely day really, a long drive in the company car wasting company gas, listening to music and podcasts.
A bit of fun problem solving after I was supplied steam tap seals that were 2mm less thick that the ones they were supposed to replace.
A 'quality control' coffee from one site and some free pie from the other.
I love my job.
