Coffee bean 10 years later

1. The Coffee Bean
& Tea Leaf 10 Years Later
We visited The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
10 years after their initial installation of 2
conveyor systems.
Over the course of 10 years 2 differ-
ent Production Managers have over-
seen ordering, installation and produc-
tion of coffee.
From an initial order and installation of
2 main systems until today, 10 years later,
6 more systems have been put into place,
for a total of 8 systems, to convey roasted
and ground coffee to the grinders, through
flavoring and to portion packaging.
Here’s what Tracy Choshaw, the current
Senior Production Manager, had to say:
“When you don’t have a lot of volume
you can do it (move coffee) with that man-
ual labor…”
“…when all of a sudden you have a lot
of volume it doesn’t work.”
“…I don’t have any machines that can
outrun the Cablevey. I have machines
that can outrun roasters. We roast in 15
minutes and that’s either a 420 pound
roast or a 550 pound roast. And I have
packaging machines that can outrun that.
I don’t have packaging machines that
run out of product because the Cablevey
doesn’t supply it. So it supplies a lot
of volume, there seems to be very little
breakage and that’s one of the reasons we
went to Cablevey, because there is not a
lot of breaking in the beans.
And other than that probably just
that they’re fairly low maintenance.”
(641) 673-8451
www.cablevey.com