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Your establishment produces a good product, but your competitors may also produce a competitive one. In business, details make a difference. Making a client "feel good" with a freshly-brewed cup of coffee may be the edge that leads to the closing of a deal or to get him to become a permanent client of your establishment.

With the equipment, products, and services of The Java Butler, you will be able to offer your clients state-of-the-art gourmet drinks including Swiss chocolate, French vanilla, and Chai tea. Using our equipment, every cup is prepared consistently, with the same excellent taste and presentation.

It is your choice to make the product available to your employees; do not forget that happy workers are more productive workers.

COFFEE FACTS:

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Convenience stores sold more than $5.2 billion in coffee in 2004 ($4.0 billion in coffee sales, plus $1.2 billion in cappuccino/specialty coffee sales.) That works out to, on average, coffee sales of $37,274 per store (Source: NACS 2005 State of the Industry report)

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Among all beverages consumed in the United States on a daily basis, coffee ranks third in consumption, with 51 percent of adults saying they drink coffee daily. Overall, more than 108 million people in the U.S. are daily coffee drinkers.

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The United States is the world's largest consumer of coffee, importing 16 to 20 million bags annually (2.5 million pounds), representing 1/3 of all coffee exported.

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The total coffee market in 2005 is estimated to be 1.8 billion pounds, or $19.3 billion.

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Quickservice restaurant operators identify gourmet coffee as one of the top items for future growth.

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More than one third of all coffee consumed at work is brought in from outside the office.

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Daily gourmet coffee drinkers, which make up twelve percent of the population, regularly purchase gourmet coffee outside the home.

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More than 97 percent of all convenience stores sell hot dispensed beverages, a category that includes coffee. While sales of hot dispensed beverages (including coffee) are only 4.1 percent of total in-store sales at a convenience store, it accounts for 7.8 percent of a store's in store gross profit (Source: NACS 2005 State of the Industry report.)