To be honest, your machine is a work horse going into a work horse van. If you do your background work properly to gain clients, and have good signwriting on the van, there is no reason to try and make the coffee machine stand out. It already stands out and is in a coffee van. Its the coffee van yhat needs to stand out! 😉 I advise against covering the machine with vinyl as per comments in previous post and actually, it could become a health hazard with milk residue getting into nooks and crannies where your vinul will eventually start to peel etc. ....and its not going to do a thing for you except of course, if you just want to do it because you do 🙂 I also advise to leave the machine in toto alone. Plumb it into its work place and start using it. You need to become fully familiar with it as it came, and not start trying to fix it when it aint broke yet !! WRT comments by equipment traders. The manufacturers will respond to whatever they think is a trend in the market that they need to run with, and as stated in a round about way above, lever machines have been and gone.....but remain in a small way. If this end of the market grows, manufacturers will simply manufacture a greater number of lever machines to meet the demand but again as already mentioned above, these forums paint a different picture to the reality concerning the actual level of interest in the market right now. In plain english......wrt lever machines all these forums make it look like "everyone's doinit" when in actual fact....very very few people really are "doinit" and if you were running your business wholly on the basis of selling lever machines....you would be starving and broke. Their comments re reliability and slowness need to be taken in the context of the market they are pitching to which is commercial and not home. I dont see any reason why a lever machine should be unrelaible and will put that one straight out of my mind however their comments re slowness could be considered legitimate enough. Compare the modus operandi of using a modern volumetric electronic commercial espresso machine ina cafe situation compared to a lever, and while speed of use per se between the two types may not be a real issue at all, the overall convenience factor of using a well set up touch button machine when busy and while managing other functions in the cafe set up (ie not just making espresso but taking money, getting muffins out etc etc etc) cannot be discounted. The lever machine is more "labour intensive" for the same outcome. And of course, it all depends on any individual's opinion. Hope that helps.
