Bean to cup coffee machines, office vending and water coolers for Cambridge, its science parks and the A14 corridor to Huntingdon, from an independent supplier based in Hadleigh, Suffolk, about forty miles away.
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Cambridge is about forty miles from our Hadleigh office, an hour by road via Haverhill. It is far enough that we plan the visits and close enough that we make them: the survey, the recommendation and the account reviews are done in person by the same consultant. Installation and servicing use the UK-wide engineer network that supports every Optimus client, which suits Cambridge companies with a second site somewhere else.
A lab building, a college office and a distribution depot want different machines. We walk the site, count the people and look at the plumbing before recommending anything.
One named contact from survey to review. For a fast-growing company, that means the setup gets revisited as headcount doubles rather than left to fall behind.
Service calls are responded to within an average of 8 working hours by our UK-wide engineer network. Cambridge gets the same promise as every Optimus site.
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Find the site most like yours. The survey decides the detail, but this is where the conversation usually starts.
Cambridge Science Park, the Biomedical Campus, Granta Park, Babraham, Hinxton
Long hours, high expectations and a lot of milk drinks. The coffee is part of how a company keeps people, and the break-out space is where teams actually talk.
We usually recommend
Premium bean to cup machines with a fresh milk system, such as the Franke A600 or Coffetek Vitro X1 MIA, with the Vitro Series 3 or a Crane Coti 2 for a busy central hub, and speciality beans to match.
CB1 around the station, the city centre, college and departmental offices
Compact spaces, listed buildings and no room for a tower. Good coffee that fits a small kitchen and does not need looking after.
We usually recommend
Table-top bean to cup machines such as the Coffetek Vitro S1 or X1 and the Dr Coffee T200 on a fully managed package, with a mains fed water cooler alongside.
The A14 from Cambourne to Huntingdon and St Neots, Waterbeach, Ely
Shift-based sites where the break room has to work unattended, and hot drinks, snacks and cold drinks need to be there at two in the morning.
We usually recommend
Floor-standing hot drinks vending with contactless payment, a snack and cold drinks combo, fresh food vending for 24-hour sites and water dispensers on the floor.
From Cambridge we also cover the Science Park and Biomedical Campus, Granta Park, Babraham, Hinxton, Cambourne, Waterbeach, Histon, Sawston, Great Shelford, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots and Royston: CB1 to CB25, PE19, PE27 to PE29 and SG8, along the A14, M11, A11 and A428.
A representative shortlist. Every machine is available on rental or as part of a fully managed package.
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We will talk through the right format for your site, no pressure.
Independent, coffee-led and accountable, with one contact for everything.
A lab of forty scientists and an office of forty administrators want different machines. We size for the people and how they drink.
Not tied to a manufacturer. We recommend across Franke, Dr Coffee, Coffetek, Crane, Necta and Borg & Overstrom, based on what the site needs.
From a first machine at the Science Park to a second office elsewhere in the UK, the same supplier, the same service standard and one invoice.
Rental and fully managed packages wrap the machine, installation, servicing and beans into a single monthly fee, which suits a company that would rather spend its capital on the science.
The same four steps for every site, starting with a visit in person.
A site visit in person: headcount, peak times, plumbing and power, and an honest look at what is already in place.
A specific machine, format and supply plan sized to your site, with the trade-offs explained. We are independent of any manufacturer.
Delivery, plumbing where needed, commissioning and a walk-through with your team on day one.
Planned servicing, beans and consumables ordered through one account, and service calls responded to within an average of 8 working hours by our UK-wide engineer network.
Common questions from Cambridge workplaces.
Yes. Hadleigh to Cambridge is about forty miles, an hour by road, so surveys, consultations and account reviews happen in person. Installation and servicing are handled by our UK-wide engineer network, to the same standard as every other Optimus site, which also covers a Cambridge company's other locations.
Cambridge and its campuses, the Science Park, the Biomedical Campus, Granta Park, Babraham and Hinxton, then Cambourne, Waterbeach, Histon, Sawston, Great Shelford, Ely, Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots and Royston. Newmarket has its own page. Peterborough and the rest of the county are covered in the same way.
Usually a premium bean to cup machine with a fresh milk system, because milk drinks dominate and the cup quality is noticed. The Franke A600 and Coffetek Vitro X1 MIA cover most 30 to 100 person buildings; the Vitro Series 3 or Crane Coti 2 suit a shared hub serving several hundred people. We survey first, because plumbing and peak demand decide the model.
Yes. Hot drinks vending, snack and cold drink combos and fresh food machines for 24-hour sites, with contactless payment and remote stock monitoring so restocks land before the machine is empty. Water coolers for the floor come on the same account.
That is what the account reviews are for. The consultant who specified the setup comes back as headcount changes, and on a rental or fully managed package the machine can be stepped up without starting again. It is common for a Cambridge client to go from one table-top machine to a floor-standing hub and a second site within a couple of years.
One number, 0330 678 4687. Service calls are responded to within an average of 8 working hours by our UK-wide engineer network. Servicing is planned in advance, beans and consumables are ordered through us as you need them, and remote monitoring often flags a fault before anyone on site notices.
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