Bean to cup coffee, office vending and water coolers for Colchester and north Essex, from an independent supplier based fifteen miles away in Hadleigh.
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Local to Colchester
Colchester is about fifteen miles from our Hadleigh office, on the Essex side of the Stour. That is close enough for surveys, consultations and account reviews to happen in person, with installation and servicing handled by the same UK-wide engineer network that supports every Optimus client.
We visit, look at headcount, peak times, plumbing and power, and recommend a specific machine rather than a brochure.
One named contact for the life of the account, close enough to call in when something needs a conversation rather than an email.
Service calls are responded to within an average of 8 working hours, wherever the site is. Colchester gets exactly what our clients elsewhere in the UK get.
See also: UK-wide coverage
Find the site most like yours. The survey decides the detail, but this is where the conversation usually starts.
Colchester Business Park, Severalls, the city centre
Offices and professional services firms that want good coffee without managing a machine.
We usually recommend
A Coffetek Vitro S1 for 30 to 60 people, a Dr Coffee T200 or Vitro X1 for 50 to 100, and a floor-standing Crane Cali 2 once headcount passes 80.
Education, healthcare and large employers
Hundreds of users a day, long opening hours, and no tolerance for an empty machine.
We usually recommend
Floor-standing hot drinks machines, snack and cold drink vending with contactless payment, and water dispensers sized for footfall.
The A12 and A120, Harwich and Clacton
Shift patterns decide the spec: early starts, late finishes and break rooms that have to work unattended.
We usually recommend
Hot drinks vending, a snack and drinks combo, fresh food vending for 24-hour sites, and mains fed water.
Beyond Colchester we cover Stanway, Wivenhoe, Tiptree, Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton, Harwich, Manningtree, Braintree, Witham and Chelmsford, which is CO1 to CO16 and the A12 and A120 corridors.
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.
Bean to cup machines with fresh beans for business park and city centre offices, specified by people who do this every day.
Not tied to a manufacturer. The recommendation for your site comes from 25 years of doing this, not a sales quota.
Coffee, vending, water and consumables on one invoice, with one named contact for all of it.
Rental and fully managed packages wrap the machine, installation, servicing and beans into a single monthly fee.
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 Colchester workplaces.
Yes. Hadleigh to Colchester is about fifteen miles, 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.
Colchester and the business parks, Wivenhoe and the university, Stanway, Tiptree, Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton, Harwich, Manningtree, Braintree, Witham and Chelmsford. We cover the rest of Essex, and the rest of the UK, in the same way.
For most 30 to 100 person offices a compact bean to cup machine with fresh beans and a milk system, on a fully managed package, is the right answer. We survey the site, check plumbing and power, and recommend a specific model. The Coffetek Vitro S1 and X1, Dr Coffee T200 and Crane Cali 2 cover most of what we install.
Yes. Hot drinks vending, snack and cold drink combos and fresh food machines for shift-based sites, with contactless payment, remote stock monitoring and scheduled restocks. We also supply mains fed water coolers for shop floors.
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 problem before anyone on site notices it.
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