Business Energy for Cafés and Coffee Shops
Competitive gas and electricity for cafés, coffee shops and tearooms, built around early starts and equipment that draws power long before the first customer arrives. Enter your postcode to start.
- Built for early opening hours
- Machine standby costs explained
- Whole-of-market comparison
- Independents and chains
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- Built for early opening hours
- Machine standby costs explained
- Whole-of-market comparison
- Independents and chains
Most of your coffee energy is not making coffee
Measured power curves from a commercial coffee machine found that more than 90% of its energy went on keeping it ready rather than on making drinks. The boiler holds temperature from the moment you switch on until the moment you close, whether you serve five covers an hour or fifty. Add refrigeration at 41% of kitchen electricity and the shape of a café bill starts to make sense.
Why café energy is different
A café is a small site with equipment that behaves as though it were a much larger one.
The machine idles hot all day
Research on commercial machines found more than 90% of their electricity went on staying ready rather than on pouring. It costs much the same whether the shop is busy or empty.
Refrigeration runs round the clock
Milk fridges, display chillers and under-counters never switch off, and across monitored kitchens refrigeration came to 41% of all electricity used.
Early starts, standard tariffs
Bakers and baristas are on site hours before a typical business day begins, which puts a real share of your load outside the hours most tariffs are built around.
Small site, fixed costs
On a modest unit the standing charge is a meaningful slice of the bill, so the cheapest headline unit rate is often not the cheapest contract.
Where we cut your café energy costs
Cafés are small enough to be ignored by suppliers and big enough for the bill to hurt. We compare the whole market and look at the standing charge as hard as the unit rate.
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How we help your café save
Getting started takes a couple of minutes, and our team does the heavy lifting.
Tell us about your café
Enter your café postcode or call us. We will find your meter and usage and get to know your opening hours.
We compare the market
We match you to tariffs that suit early starts and a small site and review your meter and usage profile.
Choose your deal
Pick the contract that is right for your café, with our team on hand to talk it through.
We handle the switch
Your new supplier takes care of the switch, with no interruption to your supply at any point.
More than one shop? We put every site on one bill and one renewal date. Call 01242 32 31 31 and we will sort it.
Café and coffee shop energy, answered
Does my coffee machine really use that much electricity?
Should I switch the machine off between peaks?
What else uses the most electricity in a café?
Why is my standing charge such a big share of the bill?
Do cafés get the reduced 5% VAT rate on energy?
Should a café fix its energy prices?
Can I compare if I am in a leased unit?
Is a green tariff worth it for a café?
How long does switching take?
Compare café energy today
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