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April 24, 2009 at 9:17 am
Jaanus Savisto
I have the same worries with oh so many of our clients. And the bastards go all big eyes and “do we have to do it”, bleeding bums they
April 27, 2009 at 6:58 am
Andrew Gribben
I recently asked a new customer of mine how often they cleaned their machine, they thought it was around once every year or two. I spent two hours and still don’t think it’s clean
April 29, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Gary
Telfon portafilters. They’re the future I’ve seen it!
May 6, 2009 at 10:39 pm
coffee messiah
Hi-larry-us, and people wonder why their coffee tastes so bad.
We have one of those places in our town. I asked even about their espresso grinder and they looked perplexed ; (
When we had our coffeehouse, we cleaned our machine every night and had the machine gone through (hard water out here even with a filter on the line) every 5 months.
Education sure helps ; )
Teflon? Yikes………….
October 30, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Mark
And people also wonder why their coffee machine breaks down after years of absue and no TLC!