ACF Cups the end of an era

beanflying

Off twitter today last container ever of ACF's is heading for Rio coffee. So if you have them in your cafe and want to keep them time to pre order! - Source Bar 9 Adelaide

Lacehim

What happened to ACF?

beanflying

Closed was the word from Rio Coffee via Bar9. There has been a parallel import thing going with another company ex NZ/Aust but stock has been hard to come by for a while now.

Lacehim

That's a shame. I love my red ACF cups.

Jonty

I have 6 black 280ml tulips to offload if anyone wants a set 🙂

beanflying

Jonty wrote:

I have 6 black 280ml tulips to offload if anyone wants a set 🙂

Mmmm Buckets o coffee. Most cafes in warrni would happily throw a single with some burnt milk in them for you :stir

RichardM

280mL is too big for me, Jonty. If anyone had any 200mL ones I'd be interested in getting a few off them. On the plus side, Rio Coffee is now listed as being the distributor for Nuova Point cups, which should provide a nice alternative. I'd assume such resellers as Jetblackespresso will be stocking the Nuova Point's unless they opt for cheaper alternatives?

beanflying

Rio most likely is just reselling Nuova Point, I talked to the distributor at MICE recently. Some of them felt good to me some didn't. I prefer a cup you can at least get some of your finger into the handle :-|

Jetblack_Espresso

Bean Flying wrote:

Closed was the word from Rio Coffee via Bar9. There has been a parallel import thing going with another company ex NZ/Aust but stock has been hard to come by for a while now.

There has been a master importer for ACF in Australia for some time now and Rio, Jetblack and a couple of other companies are importer/distributors under this importer - so no grey importation (as far as we are aware). Unfortunately ACF is under external administration and we are waiting to see what happens ... It would surprise me if this is the last we see of ACF, but at least for the short term, stock will just be running down ... charlie

RichardM

Bean Flying wrote:

Rio most likely is just reselling Nuova Point, I talked to the distributor at MICE recently. Some of them felt good to me some didn't. I prefer a cup you can at least get some of your finger into the handle :-|

Oh you have big man hands 😃 - I have tiny girly hands 🙁

Kelsey

Having seen this thread I went and bought a couple of red ACF espresso cups from a Sunshine Coast roaster for $13 a pop, just in case. 😃

Dry_bean

Just picked up on this, a bit sad really, end of an era, will certainly take more care of my 280 ml ACF black cup and saucer set from now on. 😉