Top 10 tips for healthy espresso equipment

Winter has a knack for unleashing the most annoying sickness: cold, coughs and flu. Some are contagious and some are preventable (flu shot anyone?) but no matter what the outcome, nobody has time to be sick, and that applies to your coffee machinery.

There’s no great time for your machine to break down, and there’s no convenient time for a preventative maintenance check-up, but regular appointments based on your volume of usage or yearly cycle will help prevent any unwarranted phone calls from your machine technician with a preventable illness or worse, a terminal outlook.

Before we get to that sorry state, there are plenty of easy tricks café owners and baristas can do on a daily basis to have espresso machines functioning at 100 per cent and delivering espressos with the