Sixteen kinds of building, each with its own trading day, its own sign-off chain and its own reason the coffee currently is not there. Pick yours — every brief is written for that building alone.
The quote under each is that building’s traffic shape — when the demand actually arrives, which is the whole reason an unattended kiosk beats a counter in some of them and loses in others. Each page says where we lose, too.
Two hard peaks — 08:30 to 10:00 and again after lunch — then near silence. A staffed counter is paid for the silence.
Read the venue brief →UniversitiesBrutal ten-minute spikes between lectures, then nothing for fifty minutes.
Read the venue brief →HospitalsNever stops.
Read the venue brief →Gyms and leisure centresEarly doors 05:30–08:00, then a long flat middle, then a 17:30–20:30 evening block.
Read the venue brief →Train stationsA vicious 06:00–09:00 peak, a second at 17:00, and a first train that leaves before any staffed unit opens.
Read the venue brief →Shopping centresWeekend-weighted, with a long weekday afternoon lull that no staffed unit covers profitably.
Read the venue brief →HotelsEarly check-outs before breakfast service, then a quiet day, then evening arrivals — three windows, none worth a shift.
Read the venue brief →Student accommodationInverted — quiet in the morning, alive from late afternoon until well past midnight, and relentless through exams.
Read the venue brief →Care homesVisiting hours in the afternoon, plus night staff on a twelve-hour shift with nowhere to go.
Read the venue brief →Schools and collegesFifteen-minute break windows and a lunch hour, term time only — the most compressed peaks of any venue.
Read the venue brief →Car dealershipsLong dwell — a service wait is ninety minutes, and a sale negotiation is longer.
Read the venue brief →Coworking spacesSteady all day with a 10:00 and 14:00 lift — the most even demand curve of any venue we serve.
Read the venue brief →AirportsRuns on the flight schedule, not the clock — the 04:00 wave is a real trading peak.
Read the venue brief →Business parksAggregated from many small tenants — no single peak, but a reliable all-day base load.
Read the venue brief →Warehouses and logistics sitesShift changes, sharp and predictable — three a day on a 24-hour site, each one a wall of people at once.
Read the venue brief →Cinemas and venuesEverything happens in three ten-minute windows around screenings; the rest of the evening is dead.
Read the venue brief →2.5 m² of indoor floor at ground level, against a wall. One 16A single-phase socket within reach. Stable internet, Wi-Fi or a network point. Access for restocking through standard doors.
No plumbing. No drainage. No planning application. No fit-out, and nothing fixed to the fabric of the building.
We fund, deliver and install the unit. We supply the beans, milk, cups and lids. We clean it, service it and repair it. Payments are card and contactless only, reconciled by us — there is no cash on your site and nothing for your finance team to bank.
Your facilities team’s workload goes up by nothing.
Photographed at City St George’s, University of London — our live site. Real photography, no renders.
Sixteen, listed on this page: offices, universities, hospitals, gyms and leisure centres, train stations, shopping centres, hotels, student accommodation, care homes, schools and colleges, car dealerships, coworking spaces, airports, business parks, warehouses and logistics sites, and cinemas. What they have in common is a steady flow of people and hours when nothing on site is open; what differs is the trading day, the sign-off chain and the position, which is what each page sets out.
About 2.5 m² of indoor floor at ground level, One single-phase socket within reach, stable internet and a route in for restocking. Nothing to plumb in, nothing to drain, no fit-out and nothing fixed to the fabric of the building.
No. We fund the kiosk, install it, stock it, clean it and service it. The site is paid either an agreed share of every cup or a fixed monthly fee for the space, agreed in the site licence before anything is installed.
Under 60 seconds a cup, with espresso from £2.00 and flat white, cappuccino and latte at £3.30 — hot or iced, customisable for strength, milk and sweetness. The kiosk is cashless, so no cash is handled on site.
Our first London site is our first London site, which reached roughly 150 cups a day within its first two months on about 3,000 daily passing footfall.
Host a kiosk at your site · Own a STARBOT franchise · Lease a unit · Own one · £1,790/mo
Send the postcode and roughly how many people pass the spot each day. We come back with a footfall-based model for your building — usually within a day.
No obligation, no credit search, no spam — one reply from the team with the exact numbers for your venue.
Prefer to talk? WhatsApp us — or ask Richard, bottom right.
Ask me anything on this page — the kiosk, the numbers, your site. Voice or chat, any hour.
