SELF-SERVICE OFFICE COFFEE CONCEPTS

At Urban Espresso it is our mission to change the culture and the way coffee is enjoyed in the office, and we believe that the working environment where you drink your coffee is just as much of importance as the coffee itself.

We work directly with an award winning team of designers who have a wealth of understanding and experience when it comes to the trends of retailing coffee on the high street. We take this experience and combine it with practical know how to create innovative design led break out areas and coffee points for the modern office. Each concept is bespoke to the working space and the environment that it is intended to work within.

Throughout the design stage a great deal of consideration is given to the operational requirements and the materials to be used. We are also able to advise on the best hard and soft furniture options to work with the concept, as well as giving thought to the wall and floor decor and lighting adjacent to where the concept will be housed.

To request a free site survey or to discuss your requirements in little more detail, why not speak to a member of our corporate sales team where they will be able to best advise on what the best approach would be for you and your business.

TAKING THE PAIN OUT OF MEETING ROOM COFFEE

Our office coffee service would be incomplete if it was not for our large selection of professional Marco thermos infusion shuttle coffee brewers, renowned for there robustness and coffee brewing technology.

Each and everyone of the shuttle infusion brewers make full use of the patented ground coffee extraction technology, so that you only ever get the goodness out of your ground coffee, leaving you to enjoy hot great tasting coffee all day long.

The brewing systems enable the freshly filtered coffee to be dispensed directly into a combination of thermos servers and pump action airpots, all of which maintain both the freshness and temperature of your coffee for up to 4 hours at a time, so gone are the days when coffee had to sit stewing away on a hot plate.

Fully automatic brewing at the touch of a button, allowing for 1.9 – 6 litres of fresh filter coffee in just under 6 minutes, and hot water on tap for those tea drinkers eliminating the need for separate hot water making facilities.
By using the thermos dispensers and airpots, it offers you with the convenience of being able to easily prepare your hot drinks well in advance of any meeting, as well having a refreshment solution that allows your hot drinks to be easily transportable without any hassle or mess.

Urban Espresso and personalised branding with any company message can be applied to any thermos dispenser or server, and we would be more than happy to talk through with you any requirements that you may have in this regard.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

Urban Espresso Ltd was established early in November 2005 by a team of leading coffee specialists, calling upon 45 years of combined coffee, retailing and roasting experience.The business was the brainchild of Dominic Boyett the company’s current Managing Director and founder.

After spending 17 years in the branded coffee sector, Dominic recognised and could see that there was a growing demand to bring the convenience of the high street into the workplace, when it came to enjoying great coffee in the comfort of the office.It’s not by chance then that Urban Espresso works exclusively within the corporate marketplace, and we are rapidly becoming recognised as the leading coffee at work experts throughout the UK, providing great ethical and sustainable coffee, leading systems and technology as well as branded self-service and operated coffee bar concepts.

It doesn't just end there, as each and every one of our coffee blends are roasted right back at Dominic’s grass roots and where he started out in the industry, at the Urban Espressos Glasgow based coffee roastery.

It’s our capabilities and years of experience from every aspect of the coffee industry, that will enable us to take total care of your entire refreshment needs whether it is the sugar to go into your coffee, through to supplying designer coffee jugs and crockery being used in your meeting rooms. All of which is being fully backed up, with the assurance of knowing that you are being looked after on a daily basis by a company that cares and is passionate about only one thing... 'Great coffee in your workplace, and working with people who appreciate and enjoy great coffee too'...

BRING BACK THE ESPRESSO CART

The demand for better quality coffee in the workplace has never been greater and this is set to grow even further, according to the recent 2008 Allegra Coffee at Work report. In this report it is documented as saying, "There are currently 24 million office workers in the UK, currently suffering awful refreshments in their place of work".

This report is also backed up by a recent article that was published by Edinburgh University into research that they had carried out, that proved for every 50 employees in a city office location, the employer would be loosing on average £85,000 per annum in downtime with staff leaving the office on coffee runs to the local high street coffee bar.

With this information now in the public domain employers at long last have started to take note of these facts, and they are now starting to look at ways to address this problem. When they look at this more closely they have started to realise that they too could potentially cash in on the benefits, of being able to bring the convenience of a simplified high street coffee offer into their workplace. By introducing compact cost effective solutions such as the mobile coffee cart, and located them in large public or open areas such as reception or large foyers they have been able to see first hand the rich rewards of both employee satisfaction and improved productivity, but also a new income street with great profits.

Recent examples of an average sized building with 150 staff or more, serving 200 coffees per day at £1.50 per cup for a 12oz latte, (grande) are able to enjoy profits in the region of £54K per annum after costs. (5 day week) This profit excludes any margin generated from the sales of any additional impulse, sweet or snack lines that accompany the sale of the coffee.

Urban Espresso have two mobile fully contained coffee cart solutions available, ranging from as little as 1.3 - 1.8 in length and come complete with all the professional equipment, branding and point of sale required to operate and merchandise an in house speciality retail coffee offer.

Initial and ongoing, staff training is offered to locations who have there own staff, or alternatively we are also able to offer clients a fully managed and operated service contract for business locations where they do not want to take over the day to day running of the coffee cart.