Matcha is now the most expensive powder on your bar, and the only one nobody weighs. Every hand scoop swings by a gram or more, shift after shift. LouJi™ doses 4.0 g exactly, sifted through the Tamis™, every shot, any barista.
Specialty coffee runs around €25 a kilo, and no serious bar doses it by eye: grinder, scale, espresso machine, easily €20,000 of precision on the counter. At the prices shown here, matcha costs approximately six times more per gram than specialty coffee, and it is still scooped by hand and whisked, or batch-blended in the morning and poured away at closing. The most expensive powder in the building is the only one nobody weighs.
Your €150 kilo by hand is a €1.20 drink. On the 36 month Matcha PRO plan the same drink is €0.68 all-in: powder, bar time, machine and Tamis™ together. About €0.52 kept per shot, around €11,293 a year at sixty drinks a day. Paying more per kilo today? Your gap is bigger: set your price below. Working estimates: every number is confirmed on your counter.
Typical figures: specialty coffee ~€25 per kg, matcha around €150 per kg (the plan's 36 month rate is €149), barista time €18 an hour. Batching hides the waste in the pitcher: whatever is left at closing oxidises and is poured away. Set your own numbers below.
Assumes 1 g of average over-scoop per drink, a conservative figure for hand-scooping ultra-fine powder. LouJi™ doses 4.0 g exactly, so the leak goes to zero.
One plan, one number: LouJi™ Matcha PRO, first-harvest organic matcha from Aichi, delivered in 1 kg PRO bags: €199 per kilo on a 6 month plan, €179 on 12, €149 on 36, a fresh Tamis™ sifting cartridge every month. One term sets both numbers, powder and machine: the machine on your bar from €69 a month on a three year Residency, nothing bought outright. Your volume comes from the sliders above.
Includes your monthly kilos reserved from our allocation, and a fresh Tamis™ sifting cartridge every month. Plan minimum 3 kg a month: about 750 shots at the 4.0 g dose, roughly 25 drinks a day. The Residency is built for working bars. Billing starts the day your machine is installed; machines ship after commercial certification, placements from Q1 2027. Plans are indicative and confirmed at placement. Prefer your own supplier? The Residency still works from 12 months: machine plus Tamis™ from €98 a month, the powder stays yours. Build it in the shop. At term end you renew, switch terms, or we collect the machine.
The Tamis™ is the replaceable sifting cartridge at the heart of LouJi™, the only part that touches your powder. It does the work your shot depends on, every dose sifted through a fresh 150-micron mesh before water. A worn mesh means a bad shot with our name on it, so we don't allow one. Every LouJi™ Pro comes with Tamis™ Care: a fresh sifting cartridge delivered every month, brush and wear kit included, swapped in ten seconds. It is included in every Residency: free in your matcha box on the plan, inside the machine payment if you pour your own powder. We don't place one without the other.
The cartridge is not the cost. The spoon is.
No. The Tamis™ is the machine: it does the sifting your consistency depends on. Every LouJi™ Pro ships with Tamis™ Care, and that is not a fee, it is the guarantee that shot five hundred pours like shot one.
Yes. Proudly. LouJi™ is an open powder platform: your supplier, your grade, your margin. The Powder to Shot Plan is the better deal for most bars, but the hopper takes any matcha you love.
Keep it. The whisk stays for the ceremony, LouJi™ runs the queue. Serve the ritual to the guests who came for it, and let the machine carry the other sixty orders.
Wholesale matcha prices have roughly doubled since 2023 after Japan's harvest shock, and allocations are tight: new accounts wait weeks for supply. When the powder cost that much less, an easy scoop was a rounding error. Today it is the biggest silent leak on the bar.
No serious bar lets a barista eyeball espresso, yet the most expensive powder in the building is dosed by feel. LouJi™ ends that: a measured 4.0 g passes the Tamis™ 150-micron mesh and pours as a smooth shot in about ten seconds. The hundredth drink tastes exactly like the first, and your menu finally means the same thing all day.
LouJi™ is an open powder platform: no pods, no proprietary refills, no proprietary powder lock-in. Load the matcha your café already serves and keep every euro of the margin. Or take the Powder to Shot Plan: LouJi™ Matcha PRO, first-harvest organic matcha from Aichi, the home of Nishio, lab-tested every batch and matched to the Tamis™, at from €149 per kilo with your allocation reserved through the shortage.
Placements run on a waiting list and are scheduled in order of signed agreements, from Q1 2027. Members get a Pro Model on the bar, the Powder to Shot Plan with your per-kilo rate and monthly machine rate locked for the whole term, our matcha or your own, install day and bar training, and a fresh Tamis™ sifting cartridge every month. No payment and no commitment to join the list: we write back to every café ourselves.