Waukesha-based Octane Coffee hopes to launch automated coffee drive-thru in City of Pewaukee
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Octane Coffee s automated systems can make and serve coffee to customers in less than 30 seconds. Photo by Brandon Anderegg.
A Waukesha-based startup delivering coffee to customers through its automated kitchen and contactless drive-thru hopes to launch its first operation in City of Pewaukee this summer. Octane Coffee’s automated systems can serve coffee, tea, smoothies…
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A Waukesha-based startup delivering coffee to customers through its automated kitchen and contactless drive-thru hopes to launch its first operation in City of Pewaukee this summer.
Octane Coffee’s automated systems can serve coffee, tea, smoothies and juice drinks in 30 seconds or less. When customers order and pay through the app, Octane’s “robotic server” GPS tracks a customer so that production coincides with their arrival, founder Adrian Deasy said.In fact, customers can make r
Grounded in family: High standards help coffee business grow, despite pandemic
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Fiddleheads co-owners Steve Klimczak, Mahnaz Marcy and Mike Wroblewski.
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When Fiddleheads Coffee Roasters opened in 1996, it was one of the first coffeehouses in Ozaukee County. Starbucks, then a 1,000-store company still in the early stages of its nationwide expansion, and other big-name coffee…
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So, for Fiddleheads founder Lynn Wroblewski, educating customers about premium coffee – and why they should spend money on it – was a central part of the job.
“People didn’t know what a mocha was, what a latte was; it was a foreign language to them,” said owner Mike Wroblewski, Lynn’s brother, who joined the business about six months after Fiddleheads’ flagship location opened its doors along Thiensville’s Main Street.