InfiniBrew Schedule Examples

Real World Examples

Every business is unique, and discovering how the InfiniBrew’s schedule is adaptable may help you tailor it for your own success, as well as understanding how to coordinate the settings effectively. Here are three example schedules to study: a truck stop, a cafe, and an office.

1) 24 Hour Business

Here we see an example of a schedule for a 24-Hour business, let’s call it a truck stop. The day parts have been divided into 6 hour blocks that suit this business. The programmed schedule displays brew values across all day parts, with none of the day parts set to OFF. This InfiniBrew is set up to brew and maintain 1.5 Gallons throughout busy mornings, then to main 1 gallon through lunch, into the evening. At 5pm, the InfiniBrew drops maintained volume to the lowest level, a half gallon, before stepping up at 11pm to maintain a full gallon of volume for the night drivers’ demand.

It’s important to realize 2 key settings aren’t displayed on the schedule page. First, for this business, a Max Drain Interval of 360 minutes (6 hours) ensures that the coffee only drains 4x per day, ensuring maximum availability at this truck stop. The smart servers will keep the coffee hot, and regular usage will ensure the servers receive regular replenishment with fresh brews, without the InfiniBrew draining the servers more often. The other setting not displayed is the cleaning schedule. For a business like this truck stop, we recommend scheduling each server to clean at a separate time, during the slowest day part. Please view the Cleaning video to learn more about the Cleaning Schedules.

2) 12 Hour Cafe

Here we see an example of a schedule for a cafe or restaurant that’s open from 6am until 6pm. A few major differences from the truck stop schedule are notable. Because the final day part is set to “OFF,” this InfiniBrew is set to begin fresh brewing each morning at 5:45, 15 minutes before the cafe opens. You can see how this business’s needs are different from the truck stop, with high demand occurring from 8am until 11am, a 3 hour day part.
This cafe would set the Max Drain Interval to 1 hour to ensure a fresh pot is brewed hourly, as they prize quality over waste savings. You’ll notice, however, that on their weekend schedule, at the 9:00am crossover, the KEEP setting has been activated. This prevents a drain event from occurring at 9:00am, and also overrides the Max Drain Interval for that entire day part. The cafe makes this choice knowing that their weekend brunch is at its peak from 9am to 1pm, and coffee is in constant demand, so no drain event is necessary during this day part to ensure freshness. The cafe also will have programmed their Cleaning Schedule to activate at 6pm, prompting their team to add a Tabz and initiate cleaning at their closing time. Please view the Cleaning video to learn more about the Cleaning Schedules.

3) 9 Hour Office

Here we see an example of a schedule for a typical, large office. Because the office manager has determined that they simply have high demand in the morning and lower demand in the afternoon, this weekday schedule only activates 2 day parts. The Infinibrew prepares for the morning’s high demand beginning at 7am, brewing 1.5 gallons and maintaining this volume until 12 pm. From noon until 5pm, the Infinibrew ensures a half gallon is always available. The weekend schedule is simply set to OFF in every day part, ensuring no automatic brewing occurs outside of normal business hours. The Cleaning Schedule is set to 5pm, to ensure a cleaning cycle is prompted so that the office manager can initiate it before leaving at the end of the day. The Max Drain Interval is set to 120 minutes, as the office manager has prioritized this degree of freshness over waste savings throughout the day, though to a lesser degree than the cafe.