BreakTime Coffee & Vending
Supporting businesses in the Lake District with outstanding vending services
The Lake District National Park was established in 1951 and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. It includes such famous towns as Ambleside, Windermere, Keswick, Grasmere and Coniston. Famous for its mountains, lakes and woodland, outdoor pursuits such as walking, climbing, fell-running, cycling, fishing and boating are hugely popular.
Due to the area’s outstanding natural beauty, the Lake District attracts around 12 million visitors every year.
The huge number of visitors from all around the world make vending machines a popular choice for providing refreshments, hot drinks and snacks to visitors.
BreakTime Coffee & Vending
We supply vending machines to all types of business
The Lake District’s economy is almost entirely built around its visitors, and the businesses that serve those visitors are as varied as the landscape itself. Five-star hotels and boutique guesthouses in Windermere and Grasmere sit alongside youth hostels, camping and glamping sites, outdoor activity centres, National Trust properties and independent cafés and pubs in some of the most remote and spectacular settings in England.
What they all have in common is a need for reliable, quality refreshment solutions that can keep pace with visitor demand — and the understanding that a machine out of service in peak season is a problem that can’t wait. BreakTime Coffee & Vending has the experience, the range and the response times to support every type of Lake District business, whatever the season.
- Hotels and guesthouses
- Holiday parks and camping sites
- Youth hostels and bunk barns
- Glamping and luxury lodges
- Outdoor activity and adventure centres
- National Trust and heritage properties
- Visitor centres and museums
- Cafés, pubs and restaurants
- Boat hire and watersports facilities
- Spa and wellness retreats
- Schools, colleges and field study centres
- Small and independent businesses
BreakTime Coffee & Vending
The best vending machines for your business in the Lake District
Coffee machines
Being able to enjoy a great cup of coffee at work is a real bonus for employees. A high-quality coffee machine may improve employee satisfaction, reduce absenteeism, and even create a boost in productivity.
We provide a wide range of coffee machines including; Table-top coffee machines, Bean-to-cup coffee machines, Fresh milk coffee machines and Free-standing hot drink machines. These are sourced from premium brands with outstanding reliability.
Whether your business is large or small we will be able to recommend a coffee machine that is perfect for your business.
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We'll help you find the perfect coffee machine for your business
Vending machines and micromarkets
To keep your employees topped-up and working hard, we supply a wide range of vending machines that will suit them perfectly. These include snack machines, chilled fresh food machines, hot and cold drinks machines and more.
We can provide a fully managed service, or you can maintain the machine contents yourself. We also provide a wide range of snacks and drinks from the most popular manufacturers including Cadbury, Nestle, Walkers and Coca-Cola.
Whatever the size of your business, we will be able to recommend a vending machine that is perfect for you.
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Water chillers and dispensers
Good hydration is critical to health and helps to keep our levels of concentration up. Providing your workforce with fresh, chilled water can help with their productivity and effectiveness through the working day.
We offer a wide range of water dispensers suitable for both office and factory applications, including both fixed or moveable machines that can dispense both hot and cold water.
Whatever type of business you run, we will find the perfect water dispenser for you.
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We'll help you find the perfect water chiller and dispenser for your business
Frequently Asked Questions for Lake District businesses
We run a hotel, holiday park or visitor attraction in the Lake District — can you supply vending machines that cope with high and seasonal footfall?
Absolutely. The Lake District’s 12 million annual visitors create refreshment demands that are unlike almost anywhere else we serve. Hotels in Windermere and Bowness, holiday parks around Coniston and Ullswater, visitor centres at Aira Force and Tarn Hows, and outdoor activity centres across the fells all have one thing in common — large numbers of people who need food, drinks and snacks quickly and conveniently, often at unpredictable times of day. We supply machines that are built to handle that kind of demand, and we understand the particular challenges of operating in a seasonal tourism environment where summer footfall can be many times higher than winter.
What types of coffee machines work best for hospitality and leisure businesses in the Lake District?
The Lake District’s hospitality sector has high expectations — visitors who have travelled from across the UK and beyond aren’t going to be impressed by mediocre instant coffee. We supply premium bean-to-cup and fresh milk coffee machines that produce genuinely high quality drinks, alongside compact table-top machines better suited to smaller guesthouses, bunk barns and outdoor centres where space is limited. We always visit before making recommendations, because the right machine for a 200-bedroom hotel in Ambleside is very different from the right machine for a fell-running centre in Wasdale.
How quickly can you reach us if a machine develops a fault?
We aim to respond to vending machine failures within 4 hours. We understand that in a busy Lake District hotel or visitor attraction, a coffee machine or vending machine going out of service during peak season isn’t just an inconvenience — it directly affects your guests’ experience and your revenue. Our dedicated service team covers the Lake District and surrounding Cumbria, and we plan our routes to ensure we can reach even the more remote parts of the national park as quickly as possible.
Do you cover the wider Cumbria and North West area from the Lake District?
Yes. Alongside the Lake District itself, we support businesses across the wider region including Carlisle, the Yorkshire Dales and the wider Cumbria area. If you are unsure whether we cover your location, feel free to contact our team.
