According to Zerno, it features the industry’s first magnetically attached 64mm blind burrs with stepless adjustment.

The Zerno Z1 grinder is the refreshed second version of the company’s flagship model, which was a Best New Product finalist at the 15th Annual Sprudgie Awards. The RediUV is now available for pre-order and has a $2.50 per-day subscription model that the company says 10 cups a day will break even on disposable cup costs. It also has a gamification feature where customers may be randomly selected for rewards set up by the cafe. The company says it eliminates over 99% of the most common germs, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza, E. A quick moment later, the door opens on the barista’s side, thoroughly sanitized and ready to use.

Customers place their tumblers in the center, and the RediUV closes to sanitize. The RediUV is a simple but powerful countertop product that uses UVC LEDs to sanitize the exterior of reusable cups. The new machine won the Commercial Coffee Preparation & Serving Equipment category in the Best New Product awards. “With The New Ground Control, you could take any barista who’s on their first day of training and train them for two minutes-and they can produce the same exceptional cup,” explains co-founder and CEO Eli Salomon.Ĭountering the critique that it’ll be disempowering to baristas, he says, “We’re bringing artistry back to where the focus should be, which is in the recipe creation.” Recipes can be inputted and programmed from a roastery or training center and sent out to a fleet of brewers in your shops, making recipe sharing and execution much more effortless. Improved from the Cyclops are a 40% bigger brew basket, triple-walled transparent dispenser, half the height, higher volume, visual cues, and a cloud-based recipe manager that’s currently in beta. Ground Control, known for its commercial batch brewers, announced The New Ground Control, an updated spin on its flagship Cyclops model. Squeaky also drew considerable buzz at SCA Expo for their HOM (FLOWER) “aroma coffee display”, which allows you to smell ground coffee from inside a sealed canister. Sprudge’s coverage of the 2024 SCA Expo in Chicago is presented by Bellwether Coffee.

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