A free coffee machine for your business — if "coffee machine" covers a robotic arm pouring Specialty Grade 1. Give us a spare corner and a socket; we install it, stock it, clean it and service it, and your site takes an agreed share of every cup. No capital, no staff, no fit-out.
Nothing, ever. We fund the kiosk, deliver it, install it, stock it, clean it and repair it. No capital, no service charge, no invoice at any point.
A corner of indoor floor at ground level, a socket within reach, internet, and a way in for restocking. That is the entire ask.
An agreed share of every cup — or a fixed monthly fee for the space, if your finance team prefers a number that never moves.
Looking for a STARBOT rather than looking to host one? Here is the whole list — it is short, and it is growing.
Open to anyone on the Clerkenwell campus, all day and all night, with a robot arm doing the pouring. Hot or iced, tap to pay, no queue to speak of — the full menu and prices are on the front page.
Rail, campus and hospital locations are being signed now. Want the next one to be your building? That is the rest of this page.
Everything below is for building owners and estates teams: what it costs to host a kiosk (nothing), what we need from your site, and how your floor gets paid. Skip straight to the enquiry →
No invoice is coming your way, now or later. We fund the kiosk and we operate it — your building supplies the spot it stands in, and that is the whole of your side.
No planning application, no fit-out, no shopfitters, and no corridor closed off while it goes in. It arrives on a pallet truck and it is trading the same day.
Installed, supplied, cleaned, monitored and repaired by STARBOT. Your facilities team's workload goes up by nothing.
An agreed share of sales at your site, paid on what the kiosk actually takes. The busier the building, the more the floor earns — and it costs you nothing on a quiet week.
Income scales with your footfall ↑You charge us a flat monthly fee for the corner, like any other licensee. Predictable, budgetable, and completely independent of how many coffees we sell.
Same figure every month ↑The kiosk earns wherever there is a steady flow of people and nowhere decent to get a coffee. That is most large buildings in the UK at eight in the morning — and nearly all of them at ten at night.
Long dwell time, late library hours and a term-time crowd that has nowhere else to go at nine at night. Our first London site is a campus, which is why we know this one properly.
Staff on shift at three in the morning, visitors with hours to fill, and a canteen that shuts at six. Demand here never really stops.
High volume, no patience. The queue keeps moving rather than walking past — nobody misses a train waiting for a flat white.
A café-grade amenity for the lobby without signing a café tenant or staffing a pantry — and something to show on a building tour.
A robotic arm behind glass is a dwell anchor. People stop to watch it, film it, and then buy from it.
Post-workout and pre-checkout, at the hours when nothing else on site is open. Small footprint, no back of house.
We validate the exact position against real footfall data before anything is agreed — where people actually walk, not where there happens to be a spare corner.
Real footage from the live site — the unit behind the glass, a queue at the screens, a cup leaving the shelf and the people who came back for it. No renders, no animation.
Filmed on site, on an ordinary weekday — not a launch day. Want to stand in front of one? Ask for a site visit.
A vending contract creates jobs for your facilities team: refills, jams, complaints, cash. This one does not. Here is a normal twenty-four hours.
No opening rota and no closing time. Overnight staff and late finishers get the same cup as the morning rush.
Under sixty seconds an order, so the queue clears instead of building — and nothing about it lands on your front desk.
The machine rinses and purges between drinks, on its own schedule. Your cleaning contract is unchanged and your contractor is not asked to learn a new bit of kit.
Beans, milk, cups, a wipe-down and a stock check — an hour or two, on our rounds. Our person, not yours, and never through your stores.
Live sales and fault data stream to our monitoring platform. We usually know about a problem before your front desk does.
The security team, the cleaners, the ward staff. The floor is still earning while the building sleeps.
Every assumption here is yours to change — capture rate, cup price and how many days a month the building actually trades. One kiosk tops out at ~500 cups a day. This is gross sales at the kiosk; your share is agreed before install.
These are the planning rates we use ourselves before committing a kiosk to a building — annualised, not lifted from a good week. They are deliberately careful: our own campus site trades above its rate in term time and well below it in August, and the rate is the average of both. An office is the exception — a closed crowd comes back to the same machine, so it is counted as cups per person on site rather than a share of passers-by. Every field here is yours to change. Output is capped at 500 cups a day — one kiosk's realistic ceiling — and a 12-month ramp-up is applied to year one.
Seasonality is real and we would rather say it here than surprise you later: a campus empties over the holidays and our own university site trades at a fraction of its term-time rate through those weeks. That is what the trading-days field is for — model the year your building actually has, not twelve identical months.
That is a measurement, not a model: a till figure from a real building in London. It is also term time, which is the honest half of the sentence — the planning rate in the estimator above is the annual average, holidays and all, and it is the number we would put in front of you.
Nothing to install and nothing to run. We fund the kiosk, deliver it, stock it, clean it and service it. Your side is the corner, the socket and internet — the deal panel above lists it exactly. How your site is paid — an agreed share of sales, or a fixed monthly fee for the space — is set out in the site licence before anything is installed.
Usually not. The requirements panel above is the whole ask, and a spur to a sensible position is a morning's work for the electrician you already use. What we will not do is design around a compromise: if the only powered corner is the one nobody walks past, the site is worth less to both of us than a slightly longer cable run.
No. We occupy an agreed spot of a couple of square metres under a site licence for an agreed term — not a lease and not a retail unit. It is a far shorter document than a tenancy, and it is the reason a kiosk can go in where a café never could.
We do, all three — the day log above is the whole of it. What matters for your contracts is what it does not touch: your cleaning specification, your stores, your waste route and your out-of-hours call-out list all stay as they are.
Honestly? Nobody knows until we look at your building — but we will not pretend otherwise to get a signature. The estimator on this page runs on our own planning rates, the ones we use internally to decide whether a site is worth a kiosk: 2% of campus flow, 5% in a hospital, 7% in a hotel or gym, 1.5% in a transport hub, 0.6% in a shopping centre, and an office counted as cups per person on site rather than a percentage. They are annual averages, so a good week beats them and August does not. Every field is yours to change, and before anything is installed we check your specific spot against real footfall so the numbers are agreed in advance.
Less than the vending machine it usually replaces. There is no cash anywhere in it, so there is no float to hold, no till to empty, no collection to escort and no reason for anyone to be at the kiosk out of hours. Sales reconcile to us and your share arrives as one figure, with the transaction detail behind it if your auditors ever want it.
Espresso from £2.00, flat white, cappuccino and latte at £3.30, chai and matcha at £3.80 — hot or iced, every drink adjustable for strength, milk and sweetness. That undercuts the high-street chains your visitors are walking out to, which is the point. Bubble tea and frozen desserts run on the same platform and the same corner, so the offer can grow without a second footprint.
The unit belongs to us, so the risk sits with us. If a spot underperforms against the model we agreed, relocating the kiosk is our cost and our logistics — your site is not left with a piece of hardware to dispose of.
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Postcode, venue type and rough daily footfall is enough to start. We come back with a footfall-based model for your site — usually within a day.
No obligation, no credit search, no spam — one reply from the team with the exact numbers for your venue.
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