Coffee bars - in the common areas for greeting new prospects and residents.

Coffe bars - in the common areas for greeting new prospects and residents. Love them? Hate them? What coffee machines are best? Alternatives?

It may depend on the size of your building/ layout of your community. We have 100 units split over 2 buildings side by side and felt putting a coffee machine in one wouldn’t be fair to the other residents, but the cost of the machine, maintenance, supplies, etc was entirely not worth it. On the other hand, we felt even if it was a pay per cup situation that it wouldn’t be used by the residents (in either building).

yes only 100 unit building - owners are questioning the need for one at all. Suggests Kuerigs, which I despise. Definitely not environment friendly.

I honestly love the idea but our coffee bar is mostly used by teenagers who leave a big mess and prospects never get coffee so I honestly don't like them .

exactly! Plus they sneak in and steal all the snacks too

Steve Boucher yes I cant even put out snack anymore. We have to get magnetic child-proof locks for kitchen cabinets because the teenagers are going into them and taking all our stuff it was insane

I have a great service with Vienna Coffee. I pay around $210 per month for up to 400 cups of coffee. It’s an automated machine with several great options. A tech comes out to clean the machine and deliver new supplies every 2 weeks. If I don’t use the full 400 cups, the remaining roll over to the next month. To help keep cost down, I have it set on an auto timer to only be on from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Starbucks Serenade from Canteen or Aramark.

We have Keurig at nearly all our sites. A handful have Starbucks

Espresso, etc! Hands down best, easiest, freshly ground, minimal clean up, no contracts, omg it’s amazing! Check them out. Let me see if I can find link for you! Oh and way better
For the environment than kcups (sorry guys) they are killing our planet!
Also you get lattes, capuccinos, chai lattes, hot chocolate and so much more! Xoxo

espresso-etc.com/

Flavia is good.

We have a Starbucks coffee machine , it makes like 4-6 different drinks. Literally everyone loves it

I love a coffee bar with mini fridge. You don’t even ha e to spend a fortune on a coffee maker. Just a nice coffee maker. But the Keurig professional is a good one and easy to use. www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWKEHU4/ref=cm_sw_r...9jSkar5HjrcaV8HG6Mvc