We have been a fan of the Astro hot drink vending machine for some time having placed a number of these with our customers.  These machines are fully automatic, floor standing hot drinks machines that either use soluble coffee or whole beans depending on what was specified by our customers.  In either case the machine will produce a very good coffee if set up correctly and we generally recommend that they dispense into a paper cup or even the customer’s own mug in order to maintain the high quality feel of the offer.  However these machines have only ever dispensed 7oz or 9oz drinks.  All that has changed in 2013.

We have just placed 2 Astro “Big Ones”.  These are still Astro machines and still deliver the quality of drink that you would expect but will dispense a 12oz drink into a 12oz quality paper cup.  As before the machine is available to use with either soluble coffee of whole beans.  The 2 machines that we have placed use a soluble product, in this case Kenco Millicano.  Kenco Millicano is generally considered to be the highest quality soluble coffee available in vending today and as such gives you a great coffee base for your cappuccino, latte or cafe au lait.   We also brand the machine with Kenco Millicano decals as well as using a great quality (Millicano) branded paper cup.  These factors combine to give the Astro a real quality drink offer akin to what you might expect to take away from a High Street coffee house.

The sites where we have placed these machines are the Olympic Park Visitor Centre and an upmarket Health Club in West London.  In both cases they have been very well received with significant sales through the machines.  In fact the response has been so positive that we are actively looking for more sites to place this equipment into.

For more information on how to get a hot drinks machine that dispenses high quality 12oz hot drinks in your place of work please give our office a call.  One of sales team would be happy to visit you in order to go through the options available.