Anyone own a coffee vending machine?

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I am a coffee fanatic, I thought it'd be cool to own one of these. Anyone buy one? How much did you pay?

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Are those the same ones that would dispense chicken broth too? I remember being at the hospital when I was 6 (so 1987) when my little sister was born. I went to the vending machine and was upset it only had coffee. My Grandma showed me there was chicken broth, too. I totally forgot about that until you posted that pic. Thanks for the memory!
 
I remember getting the chicken broth from those machines too... usually at marina's or ferry terminals.
 
I don't have one of those, but the one at my last job was like a roach magnet. Ew.

I may however have to eventually get a Bloomfield Koffee King. The kind with dual warmers that can be hooked up directly to a water line.

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They have one at work in the break room and it is pretty much teh awesome.
 
Nope but I do have a nice stainless steel commercial Bunnomatic coffee machine. This machine made about 5 pots(minimum) a day for the last 20 years. We just recently replaced it with a newer model but old reliable is still kickin.
 
I just thought it'd be cool to have one of these machines for the morning. Push a button to get a single cup of coffee, or cappucino, or latte, or even whipped hot chocolate. From my experience when you make a pot of coffee, about half the pot goes to waste.
 
I don't have one of those, but the one at my last job was like a roach magnet. Ew.

I may however have to eventually get a Bloomfield Koffee King. The kind with dual warmers that can be hooked up directly to a water line.

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They have one at work in the break room and it is pretty much teh awesome.

if you get one of those used, look at the inside if it first. i had a leased one at the last rest. i ran. the heating resevoir was nasty. the elements looked like weird stalactites, and the water in it looked like spoiled milk. the metal screen filters looked like snot.

i unplugged it the first day i took the store over, but the company refused to replace it. i stun gunned it 5 or 10 times before we opened one morning. the new one made much better coffee.
 
Good advice. If I get one, yeah, gotta be careful. No way to really restore a rusted-out coffee maker that hasn't been maintained properly.
 
Didn't these things dispense hot chocolate also? I think we just "upgraded" to a more modern one at my work and I'm pretty sure our old one had HC.
 
alot of them have a little hot water dispenser by the on/off switch- great for hot tea of hot choc.
 
I have one of these I keep at work:
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Except it has the metal carafe. Works great, just throw the beans and water in and it makes from 1 cup to a full 12 cup pot.

Those stand up coffee vending machines are the pits (the big ones like in your picture). They make some of the nastiest foul tasting road tar ever. I have had them at several places that I have worked and it is my theory that these were why there is a Starbucks on overy corner. 4Bucks is nasty, but drinkable. The stuff that came out of these machines is just nasty. That's why nobody collects them.

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I have a theory, if it's YOUR coffee vending machine in YOUR house - it will be kept ALOT cleaner and well maintained than your run-of-the-mill on location vending machine.

If you keep it clean, then it should vend some good "joe". The one at the University has English Toffee Latte - it's really, really good.
 
I have a theory, if it's YOUR coffee vending machine in YOUR house - it will be kept ALOT cleaner and well maintained than your run-of-the-mill on location vending machine.

If you keep it clean, then it should vend some good "joe". The one at the University has English Toffee Latte - it's really, really good.

true to a point they are just messy i had a very clean route but they are just not easy to keep clean. mine paid my bills so i was always on that shit. last one i sold for around a grand cant remember exact price tho
 
I don't have one of those, but the one at my last job was like a roach magnet. Ew.

I may however have to eventually get a Bloomfield Koffee King. The kind with dual warmers that can be hooked up directly to a water line.

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They have one at work in the break room and it is pretty much teh awesome.

I have 2 Bunn brewers like that and manual water pour one in the house , not enough room for a waterline hookup right now. Also have a Bunn grinder that holds 12 lbs of beans, use that too. were coffee nuts here and hate to wait on the crappy household ones. also got tired of replacing the home only ones every 2 or so years, we also use watercooler water to make coffee , demineralized so it doesnt foul up the element with lime scale
 
Hm. Another good point, if I ever do get one I could get a water filtration system as well and run the water-in through that.
 
Had one at one of my old work places.

It made excellent Hot chocolate, because they used syrup instead of powder....Then they swapped machines on us, and the Hot chocolate was made with powder...nasty stuff I never drank again.

I don't drink coffee though, so I don't know if I'd want that monster in my place :)
 
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