BaristaBox, new from Vendon!
Step into any busy café and you’ll notice the same scene: long queues, baristas rushing between grinders and portafilters and managers nervously watching the clock. Despite every effort, the numbers at the end of the day don’t always match expectations… That gap — between what happens behind the counter and what managers actually see — is where Vendon’s BaristaBox comes into its own.
Uncover what really happens between bean and cup.
At Host Milano 2025, Vendon will unveil a this important breakthrough for operators, roasters and café chains, which gives them the ability finally to uncover what really happens between bean and cup.
For decades, the traditional espresso machine has been a black box. Managers trusted a barista’s skills, they had to: there was no way to analyse what was going on. Was the extraction right? Were beans being used efficiently? Were customers waiting too long when the machine slowed down?
With BaristaBox, connected to Vendon Cloud, those questions no longer go unanswered. With BaristaBox, espresso machines now provide a clear language of numbers — brewing times, water flow; shot volume, extraction consistency; ingredient use and cleaning cycles. It means that café managers and roasters now have complete visibility and not just in a single store – every machine in every location becomes an open book, all accessible from one intuitive dashboard.
It’s a new level of insight that goes beyond efficiency: it safeguards quality. One poor-quality cup can damage a brand, regardless of the countless good ones either side of the dud. With real-time data, operators know immediately when recipe standards slip. Guesswork disappears, along with the risk of serving coffee that fails to meet the brand’s promise and so disappoints the consumer.
Imagine discovering in real time that a grinder needs adjusting, that cleaning has been skipped, that the cups sold do not tally with the weight of beans that has been used. For café managers, BaristaBox means less downtime, tighter control over margins and consistency of output. For roasters, it ensures their coffee tastes the way it should — wherever it’s brewed.
‘Coffee businesses live and die by consistency’, Raivis Vaitekūns, Vendon’s Global Partnerships Manager and resident coffee expert said:. ‘When you walk into a café with your brand on the menu, you want to know the taste in Milan matches the taste in Madrid. What we’re doing with BaristaBox espresso machine telemetry is giving roasters and operators that certainty. It’s not about data for data’s sake it’s about consistent quality in every cup served.’
At Host Milano 2025, Vendon’s message is clear: this is not technology for its own sake, but visibility where it matters most. Faster lines, more satisfied customers and business decisions backed by real data, not assumptions. That’s BaristaBox.
Whether you operate ten cafés or ten thousand, BaristaBox from Vendon answers the key question: What are your baristas not telling you?
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