You weigh your coffee to a tenth of a gram. Then a matcha order comes in and someone reaches for a scoop. That scoop swings by about a gram either way: money leaving the bar, and a drink that changes with whoever is on shift.
The machine sets the dose. The same weight of powder goes into every drink, whoever is on shift.
The Tamis™ sifts every dose. Nobody whisks a bowl in the middle of a queue.
About thirty seconds per shot, built for back-to-back service. Sustained throughput is confirmed at production lock.
Your numbers, three ways: today by hand, LouJi™ bought with your own powder, and the Matcha Plan.
Lost by hand: heavy scoops and batch poured away at close. Enter 0 if you lose none.
€734every 4 weeks
Your powder, about 4.90 kg, losses included
€615every 4 weeks
€576 your powder (3.84 kg) + €39 Tamis™ Care
€860every 4 weeks
The machine, 4 kg of LouJi™ 530nm at €200 a kilo, Tamis™ included
The plan ships at least 3 kg every 4 weeks, about 750 shots at 4 g. You would use about 3.84 kg.
Estimates, excluding VAT. Not counted: shipping, water, energy, bar time and extra Tamis™ cartridges at high volume. The plan ships whole kilos in 1 kg bags, 3 kg at least, every 4 weeks; the kilo price steps down with the box. Two years is 26 boxes: the 24 of the plan, then matcha only.
Dollar figures use our US price list.
Powder you never sold and bar time you paid for. A worked example at 40 drinks a day, 26 days, a 4 g dose and powder at €150 a kilo. Most bars work one of two ways.
A scoop is a guess. Half a gram heavy on a 4 g dose is 12.5% extra powder. At this volume, about 520 g a month, around €78 of powder nobody ordered.
The last pours die at close. Tip away six drinks a day and that is about 624 g a month, around €94. With the heavy scoops: about €172 of powder a month.
Call it 90 seconds by hand per drink. LouJi™ takes about 30, so about 60 come back: about 17 h of bar time a month, worth about €260 at €15 an hour. Time made available, not a cut in payroll.
LouJi™ doses what you set and makes each shot to order, so these are the costs it targets. Your numbers will differ: set them in the calculator above.
Worked example. A bar that batches does not also whisk every drink by hand, so the two are never added together.
The 300 g hopper holds about 70 shots at 4 g. The 2.8 L water tank refills from the top.
The wet path is designed to rinse between shots. The drip tray and the Tamis™ come out by hand. The outside gets a wipe.
Every 4 weeks a fresh Tamis™ arrives and the used one goes back to us. A busy bar may need more than one per box.
Pre-production targets, confirmed at production lock.
No. On the Matcha Plan you take our matcha, LouJi™ 530nm, every batch tested for heavy metals, and pay the machine off every 4 weeks, in under 2 years. Or buy the machine outright and keep your own supplier. Both routes are on the pricing page.
It is replaced every 4 weeks, or sooner on high volume. A busy café may need more than one per box. Final rated capacity is confirmed at production validation.
That is what the 30-day pilot is for: a paid month on your own bar, once certified units ship. Continue on the plan or buy the machine, and €390 of the pilot price counts toward the machine; the matcha stays yours.
LouJi™ runs the queue. Put one on your bar for a month and judge it on your own service.