Cult London coffee brand Grind, best known for its high street stores and compostable coffee pods, today announced the release of its commercial coffee program, GrindPro, bringing barista-quality coffee to businesses, offices, and organisations.
In the past, coffee in these kinds of settings has typically been a very fragmented setup–with a machine made by one manufacturer, beans from another company, and installation, training and maintenance by yet another business–with none of it designed to work together from the ground up.
With GrindPro, Grind has integrated all of this, allowing businesses to offer their staff and customers café-quality coffee with ease–bringing together a best-in-class automated machine and freshly roasted Grind coffee, plus installation, maintenance and training–all provided by Grind in a really simple and accessible way designed for 2024 (not 1994.)
David Abrahamovitch, Grind’s founder & CEO commented, “Bad coffee just doesn’t cut it anymore–and consumers aren’t satisfied with only having a high quality coffee in a specialty coffee shop–like me, they want great coffee in all parts of their life, be that at work, in a hotel, in an airport lounge, or at an event.
We set out to make it much easier for businesses to provide their staff or their customers with café-quality coffee without the need to have trained baristas on site, or complicated manual espresso equipment.“
GrindPro is available now from grind.co.uk – and consists of two machines, GrindPro and GrindPro+ :
GrindPro
GrindPro is for environments where the customer will select their own drink, in spaces such as an office or an airline lounge. Through a unique HD interface designed by in-house Grind experts, customers can choose and personalise a drink, just like they would in a Grind café. Using only fresh, high-quality Grind ingredients, the machine perfectly grinds the beans, extracts the espresso and steams the milk, consistently and always to the bespoke Grind brand standards.
Grind Pro+
GrindPro+ is for environments like hotels, restaurants, members clubs, or any other space where coffee is prepared by staff and served to the customer; locations where having a traditional manual coffee machine might be impractical or too challenging to maintain. Grind Pro+ combines automation with the theatre of a hand-crafted coffee, providing an elevated and premium experience at the touch of a button, hand-finished with latte art.
Supporting Grind in the programme’s launch is Scott Martin, founder and ex-MD of Costa Express. Martin previously founded Coffee Nation, which was acquired by Costa Coffee in 2011 and became Costa Express, of which Scott served as managing director until 2022.
Martin commented: “With its pedigree on the high street, and more recently in the home, Grind is uniquely positioned to become a best-in-class disrupter within the professional coffee space, which is crying out for disruption. At Coffee Nation in the early 2000s, and later as Costa Express, we led a revolution in democratising access to proper coffee. Over the next ten years, I think GrindPro will lead the next wave of this revolution in the workplace.”
