Thermoplan Mikafi Coffee Roaster - Fully Automated

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The Mikafi coffee roaster is a cutting-edge, compact tabletop commercial roaster engineered by Swiss manufacturer Thermoplan to bring the art of on-site roasting directly onto the café counter. Featuring a prominent, transparent glass roasting drum, it turns the green-to-brown transformation of coffee beans into a captivating visual and sensory live experience for customers. Built specifically to fit smaller footprints, it utilizes fully electric convection and conduction heat rather than gas, meaning it requires no complex ventilation setup thanks to its integrated, active smoke and odor filtration system.

Designed to democratize the coffee supply chain, the machine operates on an intuitive, cloud-based IoT platform that caters beautifully to both beginners and seasoned professionals. For busy baristas, it offers fully automated roasting at the touch of a button using predefined recipes on a touch display, while expert roasters can log into the remote portal to customize temperature curves and experiment with flavor profiles. Handling batches between 800g and 1.2kg of green beans, the Mikafi roaster significantly lowers raw material costs while unlocking premium new revenue streams, allowing local coffee shops, hotels, and corporate offices to serve the ultimate fresh, hyper-personalized cup of coffee.

Thermoplan Mikafi Coffee Roaster Brochure

Thermoplan Mikafi Coffee Roaster User Manual

You get all of these freebies when you purchase this machine through Prime Coffee Suppliers:

• Free! Delivery (Worth £250) - Made to order from Factory, takes 6 weeks. 
  
• Free! Installation and Setup (Worth £850)

Features

Stunning Visual Experience: Features a prominent, uniquely designed transparent glass drum that makes the entire live roasting process fully visible, creating an attractive focal point and building customer trust.

No External Ventilation Required: Outfitted with an integrated, highly efficient exhaust air and odour filtration system, allowing it to operate in small or confined commercial spaces without a complex chimney or external flue setup.

Hybrid Automated & Manual Control: Offers total flexibility—baristas can use simple, predefined recipes via the touch display for one-touch automated roasting, while experienced professionals can take full control of flavor variables.

Cloud-Based IoT Portal: Integrates seamlessly with the digital Mikafi Portal, enabling business owners to remotely manage roasting profiles across multiple locations, monitor live temperature curves, and trace beans from origin to cup.

Efficient Automatic Cooling: Equipped with a built-in automated bean cooling mechanism that activates immediately after the roast cycle to lock in optimal flavor notes safely and quickly. 

Specification for Thermoplan Mikafi Coffee Roaster

The Freshness Revolution: Why the Mikafi Tabletop Roaster Belongs in Your Business

In the fiercely competitive hospitality landscape, simply serving good coffee is no longer enough to stand out. Today's consumers are looking for transparency, sustainable practices, and premium experiences. For coffee shops, boutique hotels, and innovative workplaces looking to break away from standard cafe models, the Mikafi tabletop coffee roaster by Thermoplan is the ultimate business game-changer.

Far more than just an piece of equipment, this fully electric commercial device brings the entire production chain onto your countertop, fundamentally rewriting the economics of coffee retail. Here is why integrating the Mikafi roaster into your business is one of the smartest strategic moves you can make.

1. A Sensory Live Experience That Builds Absolute Customer Trust

The modern consumer wants a story behind what they consume. The Mikafi roaster turns the behind-the-scenes chemistry of coffee into a captivating, interactive event. Featuring a unique transparent glass roasting drum, the machine shows the entire live roasting transformation right before your guests' eyes.

When customers walk into your premises, they are immediately greeted by the rich, unmistakable aroma of roasting beans and the mesmerizing sight of the shifting green-to-brown coffee cherries. This powerful sensory anchor creates proximity, builds deep customer trust, and transforms your establishment from a simple shop into an artisanal destination.

2. Drastically Improved Profit Margins and New Revenue Streams

Sourcing pre-roasted beans from external suppliers significantly eats into your daily profit margins. Sourcing raw green coffee beans directly, however, is dramatically less expensive.

By utilizing Mikafi’s integrated green coffee marketplace and roasting on-demand, you slashed raw material costs while charging a premium for hyper-fresh coffee. Beyond the cups served over the counter, this compact machine unlocks incredible cross-selling opportunities. You can instantly bag, seal, and sell your own signature, house-roasted retail coffee beans directly to consumers, creating a highly lucrative retail stream that maximizes revenue per square foot.

3. Plug-and-Play Simplicity Without the Ventilation Nightmare

Historically, commercial coffee roasting required major industrial infrastructure—including heavy gas lines, massive floor footprints, and complex external chimney or flue ventilation systems to handle hazardous smoke.

Mikafi eliminates all of these expensive build-out barriers. Operating on standard single-phase electrical power, it features an integrated, active exhaust air and odour filtration system. This means you can safely set up the roaster on any standard countertop next to your espresso machine without needing to cut holes in your building’s ceiling or obtain complex industrial emissions permits.

4. Zero-Skill Automated Operation with Centralized Multi-Site Control

Finding and retaining highly skilled master roasters can be incredibly difficult and expensive. The Mikafi ecosystem solves this labor challenge by combining professional-grade hardware with an intuitive, cloud-based digital portal.

For your everyday staff, roasting requires absolutely zero prior knowledge. A barista can simply load up to 1.2 kg of green beans, select a pre-configured recipe on the built-in touch display, and press play. The machine handles the heating, roasting, and rapid bean cooling completely automatically, allowing staff to serve other customers while a fresh batch finishes. Furthermore, if you operate multiple locations or a growing franchise, you can remotely manage and push custom roasting profiles to all of your machines simultaneously via the online portal, guaranteeing absolute cup consistency across your entire brand.

Summary of Business Advantages:

• Premium Customer Attraction: The transparent glass drum creates a live, mesmerizing theatrical display that drives foot traffic.

• Unmatched Freshness Control: Take total ownership of your flavor profiles, freshness timeline, and bean supply chain origin.

• Highly Lucrative Cross-Selling: Easily launch an exclusive, in-house brand of packaged whole-bean coffee for retail purchase.

• Hassle-Free Countertop Setup: Requires no external venting or gas infrastructure; fits seamlessly into cafes, hotels, or offices.

• Labor-Efficient IoT Automation: Simple touch-and-go operation protects your staff's workflow and prevents overproduction.

Investing in a Mikafi tabletop coffee roaster is a powerful declaration that your business values ultimate quality, interactive experiences, and smart financial growth. It effectively elevates your brand from a standard coffee purveyor to a legitimate local roastery overnight.

About the Brand Thermoplan 

Thermoplan AG is a highly respected Swiss engineering pioneer and a global market leader in the commercial, fully automatic coffee machine sector. Founded in 1974 by Esther and Domenic Steiner in Weggis, Switzerland, the predominantly family-owned company famously achieved its international breakthrough in 1999 when it became the exclusive global espresso machine supplier for Starbucks. To maintain strict quality control, Thermoplan keeps 100% of its development and production anchored locally at its headquarters on Lake Lucerne, exporting roughly 98% of its products to over 80 countries worldwide. Renowned for its highly advanced cold milk foaming technology and modular component systems that allow for easy, near-zero-downtime servicing, the brand's premium Black&White series serves high-volume requirements across major international hotel chains, convenience hubs, and coffee houses.