As an independent provider, we offer personalized beverage solutions tailored specifically to your garden centre’s or farm shop unique needs. Unlike others, we’re not tied to any particular machine manufacturer or ingredient supplier, giving us the flexibility to create a solution that aligns perfectly with your business and customer preferences.
With years of experience, we understand that each garden centre has different tastes and requirements. Whether your customers prefer well-known brands, sustainable coffee options, or impressive latte art, we’ve got you covered. From DIY tabletop machines to a wide range of high-quality ingredients, we provide comprehensive beverage solutions designed to enhance your garden centre experience.
Optimize your garden centre’s or farm shop beverage offerings with our custom-tailored solutions, ensuring your business stands out with the perfect blend of quality and personalization.
Key Benefits
- Keep customers on-site for longer
- Become a place to meet and socialise
- Increase customer loyalty
- Achieve a healthy revenue stream
- Receive the support to run a sustainable hot beverage operation
Choose the right machine for your Garden Centre
Balmforth and Co
We are a Yorkshire based company founded back in 1967 by Duncan Balmforth and remain a family run through all these years. For over 50 years we are delivering the best tasting coffee blends to our valuable customers and coffee business partners across the whole of the United Kingdom. During this amazing and long journey, our coffee beans have been awarded the Best Taste Award and gained recognition Nationwide as a trusted coffee bean supplier.
Choose your coffee
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100% Arabica Sustainably Sourced Mountain Water Processed Decaffeinated Coffee Medium Roast Mexico
Choose your ingredients
Next day Delivery
Any order placed before 12 noon, will arrive with you the very next (working) day. Free delivery on all orders over £50.
Training
- Full training provided by our SCA Certified Barista
- Learn how to make a delicious coffee, understand how your equipment works and perfect your milk texturing techniques
Barista Equipment
We have a range of barista equipment available
Café design and point of sale
Café Design
We can create bespoke floor plans and provide tailor made signs to fit your space.
Point of Sale
When you choose Refreshment Systems to supply you with a coffee machine, vending machine or even a bank of machines, we offer ‘The Branded Option’, a whole host of optional extras to ensure that you are completely happy with the result and maximise the space that you have.
We have a range of point of sale to choose from, with the ability to tailor them to your brand or choose our Balmforth and Co branded POS.
Service
Our team of dedicated engineers are all home based and hold 80% of parts in stock with the remaining 20% available on a next-day parts service.
All engineers are employed by RSL and are not sub-contractors, so you will receive the same high level of service on every visit.
Water Filters
Although water in the UK is perfectly safe to drink, it does contain impurities that can spoil the taste, smell and appearance of hot drinks.
This can lead to customer dissatisfaction due to the inconsistent quality of the final beverage.
A good water filter will improve the drink quality, help you to save on energy costs and avoid the hassle of equipment failure.
Pressure testing
Any machine with a pressurised boiler, such as a traditional espresso machine or bean-to-cup machine requires an inspection to be carried out once a year (and a written Scheme of Examination obtained), to conform with the health and safety executive guidelines.
The boiler inspection consists of two elements:
- The service element
- The insurance element
Any piece of equipment with a pressurised steam boiler requires an inspection to be carried out under the health and safety PSSR 2000 regulations.
Sustainability
Carbon Zero
We are the UK’s only Carbon Zero Vending Supplier. Our Carbon Offset Project is the African Energy Efficient Stove Project.
Our Cups
PEFC is:
- the world’s largest forest certification system
- an international non-profit, non-governmental organisation
- dedicated to promoting Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
Our Coffee Bags
Our whole beans are packed with the utmost care. The material that we use has an optimum barrier against:
- oxygen
- moisture
- temperature fluctuations
- UV-light
