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No more crying over split milk

When Zach Hiotis opened Regiment café in the Sydney CBD four years ago, he knew it would be a risk installing not only the first, but the first two Ubermilk milk foaming systems in Australia. Now, he wouldn’t open a café without one.

“Regiment is known for its lavish, high-end fit out, and one of those elements is this expensive stone marble we used for the benchtop. I remember standing there with one of our baristas saying: ‘I want to sink the Ubermilks in a little bit, so they’re the same height as our machines’,” Zach says.

“They said, ‘hang on, are we going to cut a hole in this $30,000 benchtop to fit in these machines that are basically prototypes?’ I said

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