Today, I want to share with you information about why you would
put a single dosing bean grinder into your espresso bar.
Covering some of the benefits for your customer, for your
staff, and for your business.
So in our bar we have the Mazzer ZM this is our choice of
single dose grinder which is different to the grinder we
have over here for our main beans and you would have seen
the Anfim SP 2 on a lot of our videos so this one has the
hopper the beans feed through and we grind them straight into
our pots and weigh the amount of grind that we want as per
our recipe which goes straight into our handle and we've only
got one bean hopper here essentially. So that's our main
blend. It's our champion. Now if you're a cafe and you
want to try and attract more customers. The first thing you
want to think about is to why I would add one of these I guess
deli grinder or other style single dose grinders is to have
choice and allow your customers to have a bigger coffee
experience over your competitors. So that's the
first big benefit is giving your customers the ability to
choose a fresh ground decaf an organic product having a light
roast and a dark roast without having to have multiple
grinders all lined up side by side if we come back over this
side here you can see that normally we actually have a
upright tamper here but there's not much room for us to have
too many grinders here we've trialed it a few times having
two grinders side by side but it's just a bit squishy and
that would still only give us two blends if we had two Anfim
SP2's there so with missing if one was a dark roast one was a
light roast it was still missing decaf and a single
origin and you could imagine that would take up a whole heap
of room and also the cost of that it's huge to have four
grinders sitting there taking up valuable space just while
there's some keen eyes out you may notice this is a little bit
of a different automatic tamper we have here it is the new
Cinoart PTB Tamper which is the Precision Tamp Base so they're
going to be coming out soon Cinoart and the guys at
Espresso Company Australia have helped us out that for a bit of
a trial so we're giving a bit of a a test so far it's a
cracker so it does lift that grinder up on top a little bit
higher this one does suit things like your Mythos and
your Anfims and it's got little holes in the top which
really lock it in place so it's super stable so keep your eye
out for some those ones coming out soon but look that would
fix a bit of space if you wanted extra grinder space but
it's still only going to give you that one grinder so coming
back over here to our single grinder we can pre weigh our
beans we can have our decaf here pre weighed we've got our
geisha at the most moment pre weighed as well and we could
still have a light roast or our other blend offerings which we
have under here we've got our Fix and our Delicate so we've
got access to all of our beans that we can offer our customers
when they come in so from a baristas point of view when
you're communicating with the customer and they come in to
your shop and they say oh I'd like a a coffee if your barista
turns and says yeah for sure what kind of blend would you
like would you like a dark roast a light roast decaf or a
single or an organic that customers going to start to
feel like you've got some options and you actually
want to make them the cup of coffee that they're going to
enjoy if you as a business owner or if you're the head
barister and have the choice of the coffee that you're going to
serve in the cafe and you choose a light roast coffee and
you give that person a double shot latte and they have their
first sip and they're walking down the road and because it's
a light roast on milk it has nobody no complexity to it and
they're not really happy with that they're not going to come
back and really tell you that it's a light roast coffee and
it taste weak and you know they're just going to walk away
and hope and probably won't even come back and see you
again but if you'd presented them with a few options to
start with they had a choice of a different bean and then they
had a sip and went oh okay it's a little bit mild maybe next
time I'll come back in and change to their darker roast
that would suit me better they're going to come back in
and hopefully give you that communication as well so you
can make perfect cup when they come in the next time so now
you've got a customer that has choice in the top of coffee
that they enjoy and you can accommodate them and the single
dose grinder because they are zero retention which means pop
beans into the top and by the time you grind it out into the
dosing pot you'll get the exact amount of coffee so we've got
23 grams of any of our other size other roast here which we
pop in it's going to give us the 23 grams give or take maybe
one gram with a tiny little bit of in there ready to go
straight into our portafilter handle if we had multiple
grinders all laid up on a bench there's a big shoot which we
full of grind and if we weren't using those constantly we all
know that coffee is going to wage and you'd have to clear it
out so that's the other huge benefit to a single dose
grinder this is like zero wastage and the flexibility to
change beans so quickly and by pre weighing your beans you've
got your recipe nailed ready to go we might find our decalf
needs to be 23 grams our main blend is 22 and1/ 2 grams and
then you've got a light roast coffee which you may need to
increase or decrease that recipe so you've already nailed
your recipe and if you did find a change you needed to make
quite easily or quickly on the spot you just need to change
the pre weighed amount of beans or the grind setting so the key
thing about the ZM and why we love it is it's got four preset
grind settings that are all measured from the blades moving
in and out which allows to go very quickly between a single
origin or a decaf or a dark roast or light roast so it's as
simple as pushing a button and it can change really quickly if
you've got something like your old EK the staff have to sort
of adjust that knob and try and get the right number that maybe
the person before had already dialed in for a number two or
number three so it gets a little more complex and there's
more room for variations when you're using single dosing but
the ZM, we love that for that reason. So, if you're offering
your customer by the cup a few different roasts now, you've
then open the opportunity to sell em a bag of beans. Now, a
lot of cafes are hesitant about selling beans over the counter
when that customer comes in and buys a cup of coffee. I can
assure you that people don't only come and have coffee in
your cafe. They might come for your first cup in the morning
on their way to work but by the afternoon, they might get one
an iced coffee from somewhere else and on the weekend they
definitely don't come to the same place as to where they
would work they're going to make coffee at home so allowing
your your your customer to buy a 250-500 gram gram bag of
beans and take it home with them that's okay if you've
you've got that option but we would sell at least 70% of our
product as a ground product over the counter so these
grinders allow you to have a filter setting or a plunger
setting or even espresso setting so you can pop it in
grind out a whole 250 or 500 gram beans for that customer
take home and enjoy and I guarantee you they'll tell all
of their friends how great your coffee is because they're
enjoying it on the weekend and you're only going to get more
people coming and seeing you during the week so there is an
investment for any cafe to put into buying a single dose
grinder one of the investments that gets overlooked a lot is
the investment in your staff it is so easy just to tell your
staff to come up to a normal grinder and hit your dosing pot
and grind out your your dose. Okay, Get your handle.
Pop it in. Get our little NCD and do the process because it's
something we can repeat over and over again and that is such
a simple thing to do with one main grinder or a main bean
blend but the minute you introduce a single dose grinder
you're going to put so much education into your staff
you're going to start to inspire them to understand more
about getting a good grind better distribution recipes of
coffee to make sure that when they do put it through your
machine it is going to nail best coffee possible. So, that
part of training and supporting your your staff to to learn
more and understand more about coffee over here is going to
make a huge difference to your milk-based coffees or your main
blend all day and every day. So, it's it's going to change
the the the culture and the atmosphere of your coffee
production and your customers are going to win every time.
So, we highly recommend from a staff development side playing
with different beans, understanding different and and
yeah just to educating your team or your baristas to get
involved and and understand the finer parts of making that
perfect espresso shot. Again with a single dose grinder
you're now opening alternative brewing. That's a word that a
lot of people have heard thrown about. Really all it means is
anything other than an espresso machine. So you might be able
to then put in a batchy or a batch brewer. Um again we've
got our little pre-made pots down here for cold brewers for
puck puck or our single 65 grams ready for a batch in the
morning so you can have that set up really quickly and easy
to do other brewing methods again you might have pourovers
like your V60's or AeroPresses whatever it might
be but that allows you to change variations of grinds and
serve a whole range of other coffee menu drinks to your
customers if you're in that dine in scenario now I know any
of the business owners out there are thinking oh here he
is talking about a $5, 000 grinder and a $4, 000 grinder.
Well yes they're a bit more expensive. There is no doubt.
But having a $5, 000 grinder that can offer so much more to
your business of retail beans, alternative brews, having all
those different light roast singles or decafs. That's a
huge offering at such a small cost of one extra grinder.
Because if you're going to try and run your Anfim Sp2's and
let's say have three of them on the bench. You're already at
twelve grand give or take a couple of dollars to be able to
set that up and as I mentioned earlier, the wastage in between
those individual shots is quite big. You're going to have to
start purging three to to four or five grams in between if
that grinder hasn't been used for quite some time because the
air will dry it up. So, when you factor in the extra cost of
multiple grinders, not only servicing but initial layouts,
you've also got the wastage of the bean that you're going to
use up just to make sure you do nail that coffee perfect for
that next espresso you're going to make. Now, we all know
that staffing is a challenge at the moment and look that's just
the bit of a an issue we're having around the world so when
you're trying to grow your business and you know keep
people enthused in your business something like a
single dose grinder will obviously keep the people that
you've got in your business excited but also it's going to
show those potential baristas that you're trying to employ
that you're serious about coffee. They're going to come
in and the the discerning barista looking for a new job
is is going to look at and see what kind of coffee machine you
have. What kind of main bean grinder? And do you have a deli
grinder or a batchy? These are cool things that you know that
Gun Barista is actually looking for in their next role. They
may have only had let's say a a deli grinder as an option in
their last cafe but that cafe might not have offered
alternative brewing or retail products. So you could be
looking at stepping up the quality of the people that
you're going to employ which will also then help you grow
your business. So there is the benefit. So I hope that's
giving you a really good insight as to why Artisti when
we support cafes make sure that we get a great machine, a great
bean grinder and we try and incorporate a single dose
grinder to any of these accounts. So that when you're
looking for an Artisti Coffee you're going to get a range of
great coffees and the Baristas are going to know what they're
doing. Because it sits really well with our philosophy of
building great businesses that make great coffee but also
empowering baristas to be better at coffee as well. So,
if you can try and bring that into your business, you're
going to win. If you've got any questions about any of the
equipment that I've spoken about today or how a
single-dose grinder may fit into your business, put a
question down below and I will happily answer that for you and
anyway, thanks very much for watching. Really appreciate it.
We'll catch you next time. Cheers.