A Boulder or Denver campus can look full at 8 a.m. and short by midafternoon with the same badge count. The mix moved. On our Denver and Boulder route, espresso and milk drinks often carry the morning. Cold brew and ice usually rise later when meetings stack and people stay on campus.
I do not set restock from one daily cup total. That average hides the hour that empties the pantry. Morning beans and afternoon cold brew are two jobs on one floor.
Pick a normal campus day, not a quiet week
Write down who is in on the repeat busy day. Add visitors, morning arrival, afternoon traffic, shift overlap, and the meeting calendar. Campus floors often fill later than downtown towers. Parking, shuttles, and lab or product schedules spread arrival.
Skip holiday weeks when you can. Our concierge visits restock and support equipment on a set rhythm. That only works if the trial saw both hot and cold demand in the same building.
Split cups by drink family and by hour
Break the day into early morning, midmorning, lunch, afternoon refill, event spikes, and remote days. Then separate espresso, milk drinks, cold brew, ice, and water. A one hundred person Front Range floor can look calm at 7:30 a.m., latte-heavy by 9:15, and cold-drink heavy after 1:30 p.m.
Total cups still drive billing. Drink-by-hour notes tell us which push comes next: beans, milk, cold brew, or cups. We already compare Cherry Creek retail floors and Boulder campus cold drink mix and track afternoon coffee demand on Front Range campus floors. Those patterns do not fit a morning-only restock.
Protect the afternoon peak on purpose
Espresso lines are easy to see. Cold brew runs quiet until the pitcher or merchandiser is empty during the afternoon meeting block. If the office only guards the morning wave, the station fails when people are least able to leave campus for a replacement.
Tell us about recruiting days, all-hands, product reviews, client visits, and training weeks. A visitor spike should sit in the usage record so we can tell an event from a standing afternoon cold brew pattern. Our machines support both drink families. The service plan has to cover both peaks.
Map campus access against the later restock
Security, parking or loading, freight, pantry access, service window, and backup contact still belong in the install packet. On multi-building campuses, afternoon restock risk is often worse than morning risk. Docks close. Badges expire. The only freight window can sit after cold brew has already run out.
Write the route before install day. Keep it current during the trial. If freight slips, the office contact should know which constraint hits first: milk, beans, or cold brew. Our LoDo note on freight elevator windows and afternoon restock peaks is a downtown parallel for the same timing discipline.
Keep one short record for both peaks
The office contact is not our technician. They need one page with cup count, milk and beans, cold brew left, machine alerts, service notes, access changes, and upcoming events. Without that page, morning espresso looks like the whole story and afternoon shortages look like surprises.
Large campuses may need a building contact plus one main account owner. Placement still matters. Where to run an office coffee trial on a Boulder campus covers convergence points. This post is about measuring hot and cold demand after the machine is in the right place. The break room readiness quiz is a quick ownership check.
End the trial only after both peaks show up
We offer Denver and Boulder offices a free two-week trial with no long-term contract. At the end, review total cups, peak day, waste, restock frequency, machine placement, and open issues. Also ask if espresso and cold brew peaked in the same hour. If they did not, stock and service timing should cover both.
The two-week trial FAQ covers the commercial basics. The local question is simpler: did the trial see a normal busy afternoon on campus? If not, extend measurement. Do not lock a morning-only plan. More program detail sits on our local about page.
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