Former Costa Express Managing Director Scott Martin has led the development Grind’s new B2B coffee solution, and says the UK professional coffee segment is ‘crying out for disruption’
The GrindPro+ machine | Photo credit: Grind
Specialty coffee group Grind has unveiled a new integrated commercial coffee programme, GrindPro.
Having identified that office, hotels and restaurants often use ‘fragmented’ networks of coffee machine brands and suppliers, Grind said its programme will supply and install branded coffee machines, provide specialty coffee and offer staff training and machine maintenance.
GrindPro will offer two coffee machine solutions. The first, GrindPro, is a self-serve model for offices and airport lounges featuring touch-screen beverage personlisation options. Meanwhile, the larger Grind Pro+ is designed for hotels, restaurants and members clubs, where coffee is prepared and served by staff.
“Bad coffee just doesn’t cut it anymore, and consumers aren’t satisfied with only having a high-quality coffee in a specialty coffee shop. Like me, they want great coffee in all parts of their life, be that at work, in a hotel, in an airport lounge, or at an event. We set out to make it much easier for businesses to provide their staff or their customers with café-quality coffee without the need to have trained baristas on site, or complicated manual espresso equipment,” said David Abrahamovitch, Founder & CEO, Grind.
Grind’s commercial coffee programme has been led by former Costa Express Managing Director Scott Martin, who has been serving as a Strategic Advisor for the specialty coffee group since July 2023.
“With its pedigree on the high street, and more recently in the home, Grind is uniquely positioned to become a best-in-class disrupter within the professional coffee space, which is crying out for disruption. At Coffee Nation in the early 2000s, and later as Costa Express, we led a revolution in democratising access to proper coffee. Over the next ten years, I think GrindPro will lead the next wave of this revolution in the workplace,” he said.
Grind opened its first café in Shoreditch, London, in 2011 and now operates 14 sites across the UK capital. The specialty coffee group has also been the exclusive coffee supplier to the 160,000-member Soho House hospitality group since 2020. Alongside coffee for the group’s venues, Grind also supplies coffee pods for Soho House’s hotel rooms globally.