The World of Hospitality Issue 27 2018 | Page 47

CATERING We asked Jan Adriaens, CEO of Schuilenburg and Belgian engineer behind smart autofoamer Perfect Moose, how he saw this evolution take shape. “I have been working in the coffee industry for over 25 years now. We meet a lot of passionate people but unfortunately, you can’t run a business on passion alone. Real issues such as time management, temporary staff and training costs are not always taken into account. We saw the same frustrations over and over again and decided to do something about it. We started out with automating Probat coffee roasters, enabling our coffee roasting customers to upload preset roasting profiles and even to control them via smartphone or tablet. This allows the coffee roaster to move about during the roasting process while remaining in charge of the quality.” THE WORLD OF HOSPITALITY 47