Coffee Vending Machine Tea Options
One of the most common reasons for getting a coffee vending machine is to control milk and sugar usage. Many offices in South Africa experience abuse when it comes to their milk and sugar and vending machines are a great way to control this. Coffee Vending Machines do this by storing all sugar and milk inside the machine which prevents theft and prevents over-usage of milk and sugar.When it comes to catering for tea drinkers, companies often then put milk and sugar outside of the machine which undoes all the good work that vending machines do. To solve this problem, coffee vending machines deal with tea in 1 of the following 3 ways. Below we discuss all the coffee vending machine tea options which exist:
Instant Tea
Instant Tea (or VendTea) is an instant soluble form of tea which is used in exactly the same way as powder milk or sugar. One of the canisters is then filled with instant tea and the machine then immediately caters for tea drinkers without having the need to keep milk and sugar outside of the machine. The one downside of this is that VendTea is very expensive compared to tea bags and secondly VendTea has a very distinct taste which doesn’t match up perfect to ordinary tea bags which leaves some employees unsatisfied.
Loose Leaf Tea
Loose leaf tea is ordinary tea (not instant) but because of this it does require a filter. Loose leaf tea tastes identical to ordinary tea bags (some will argue it even tastes better) The one downside of Loose Leaf tea is that the filter paper needs to be removed a few times per day in order to keep getting a good tasting tea
Everything But:
“Everything But” is the most cost effective way to deal with tea. This is done by having buttons on the vending machine for
1) Hot Water
2) Hot Water and Milk
3) Hot Water, Milk and Sugar
4) Hot Water and Sugar
People then just dip a tea bag in, and they are ready to go. The one downside of this configuration is that tea bags do need to be left out, and this can lead to theft in some cases.