The Caffe Help Legato Plus in white. All pictures courtesy of Caffe Help.

Australian business tools maker Caffe Help just lately unveiled the Legato Plus, an upgraded model of its patented automated milk steaming system for cafes.

On the Nice Meals Australia occasion earlier this month, the corporate additionally rolled out an built-in pitcher rinser part known as Legato Rinse and a brand new companion app for Caffe Help.

Having just lately attained NSF and UL certification, Caffe Help can also be poised to broaden into the North American market. Whereas pricing on the Plus mannequin has not but been introduced, the unique Caffe Help Legato mannequin sells for AUD$11,950 (simply over US$8,000 as of this writing).

Named for the Italian phrase that means “tethered,” the Caffe Help Legato receives its steam provide from an adjoining espresso machine and releases it via its personal wand right into a pitcher of milk.

The brand new Legato Plus provides programmable automated elevating and decreasing of steam stress for various portions of milk, and a brand new software program interface that permits customers to program froth profiles via an intuitive “drag and drop” technique on the machine’s touchscreen.

“An operator can now choose the quantity of froth or stretch for any sort of milk, nominate any desired temperature — even additional sizzling — by merely touching the operator display screen and saving the settings,” Caffe Help Founder and Inventor William Purton informed Day by day Espresso Information. “Milk profiles can now be set in a matter of seconds relatively than the previous tedious course of which might take as much as minutes for a single profile.”

The non-obligatory Legato Rinse pitcher rinser will be put in on each the Legato Legato Plus.

The Caffe Help companion app is designed for cafe house owners and baristas to achieve insights into their enterprise by monitoring utilization of the steamer. The app additionally sends upkeep alerts and grants entry to the settings for creating and adjusting froth profiles aside from the machine.

All Legatos are made with chrome steel structural components and circumstances, in addition to sturdy electronics and mechanical elements. Caffe Help provides a color-matching service for custom-made branding. 

Previous to Caffe Help, in 1993 Purton based the espresso roasting firm Atomica Espresso with a roastery warehouse within the Fairfield suburb of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The corporate quickly after moved its operations into the guts of the Brunswick Avenue Fitzroy neighborhood of Melbourne, the place it additionally opened a restaurant inside its first yr in enterprise.

“The Atomica Café, because it was recognized, turned an iconic place for the coffee-obsessed,” Purton mentioned. “Caffe Help was born out after witnessing the wants and calls for of the Atomica Café in operation and is subsequently a real piece of Australian innovation.”

The Caffe Help machine and firm debuted in 2019. Caffe Help machines right now are designed in Australia and manufactured below license in Northern Italy by CMA Italy.

Purton mentioned that the corporate is exploring licensing its expertise and IP to further espresso machine producers or espresso manufacturers for additional improvement and integration into different business product strains.

“In the end, Caffe Help is a model that fairly comfortably sits and is complimentary inside a portfolio of espresso tools so could be fascinating to have these discussions with any potential purchaser,” mentioned Purton. “Partnering with likeminded manufacturing organizations and potential companions, this might assist us notice our personal ‘Area X’ second of the espresso trade.”

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