Cafe grinders, October 2026
The 10 best commercial coffee grinders for your volume.
Your grinder decides what's in the cup, not your machine. These are the commercial coffee grinders we'd put on a cafe bar right now. Tell us how many coffees you pour a day and we'll show you the ones that fit, what they cost, and the one we'd buy.
Ten current models. Prices are recommended retail, GST in. Want the why? Read the buying guide. Ready to buy? Talk to us.
Your volume
How many coffees a day?
Count a normal busy day rather than your best Saturday. Opening soon? Use what you expect to be pouring in 12 months.
About 20g of coffee goes through the grinder for every coffee you sell.
The top 10
Ten grinders. Three bands.
Every one of these makes great coffee. The wrong one for your volume runs hot, drifts through the rush and gets bought twice. Pick your band first, then pick from it.
64 to 65mm flat burrs on a timer do the job. Under 100 a day, buy the F64 E or the Super Jolly and put the difference toward your second grinder.
Mazzer
Mini
$1,650
- 64mm flat
- Timer
- 2 to 2.5g a second
The 2025 Mini. Your decaf grinder, or the house grinder on a bar under 50 a day.
Ask us about this one
Fiorenzato
F64 E
$2,244
- 64mm flat
- Timer
- 1.5kg hopper
The value pick for a new cafe. A fan switches on when the burrs warm, and the screen needs no manual.
Ask us about this one
Mazzer
Super Jolly V Electronic
$2,502.50
- 64mm flat
- Timer
- 3 to 4g a second
The grinder half the cafes in Australia learned on. Parts everywhere, and it will outlast the lease.
Ask us about this one
Mahlkönig
E65S
$3,740
- 65mm flat
- Timer
- 4 to 7g a second
The premium pick in this band, and the same body as the grind by weight version if you step up later.
Ask us about this one83mm burrs on a timer, or 65mm burrs on a scale. Over 200 a day with a barista who weighs, the scale wins.
Fiorenzato
F83 E Pro
$2,997.50
- 83mm flat
- Timer
- 650W motor
The most burr for the money. Big and cool through a rush at close to a small-grinder price.
Ask us about this one
Mazzer
Major V Electronic
$3,377
- 83mm flat
- Timer
- 3.5 to 4g a second
The Super Jolly's big brother, and the workhorse of busy suburban cafes.
Ask us about this one
Mahlkönig
E65S GbW
$4,642
- 65mm flat
- Grind by weight
- 4 to 5g a second
A scale under the fork, so every dose lands on target. On a 200 a day bar it pays for itself inside a year.
Ask us about this oneBig conical burrs that stay cool through a long rush, and two grinders on the bar.
Fiorenzato
F71 EK Pro
$4,581.50
- 71mm conical
- Timer
- 850W at 300rpm
Turns its big conical burrs slowly, so it stays cool through a rush. The sharpest price in this band.
Ask us about this one
Mazzer
Robur S Electronic
$4,812.50
- 71mm conical
- Timer
- 1.6kg hopper
The high volume standard for 20 years. If you've queued at a busy Perth cafe, you've drunk from one.
Ask us about this one
Mazzer
Kold S Electronic
$5,527.50
- 71mm conical, cooled
- Timer
- 5g a second
A Robur with fans and a belt drive, built for the bar where the grinder never stops from 7 till 11.
Ask us about this oneHow we picked them
Every grinder here is a current model you can buy new in Australia, with service in WA. We sorted them by how many coffees a day each one handles before it runs hot, then priced them at recommended retail. All ten are commercial espresso grinders with flat or conical burrs from 64mm up, on a timer or grind by weight. Where we've marked a pick, it's the one we'd buy at that volume.
Written by the Brother of Mine wholesale team in Port Kennedy, WA. We've roasted for Perth cafes since 2017.
Prices are recommended retail including GST, from the makers' Australian distributors and Mazzer's own Australian shop. They move, so ask us for today's number before you budget on one.
Before you pay
Three things nobody tells you.
Buy two
House blend on one, decaf or a guest coffee on the other. When one goes in for service, the other carries the house. Your second grinder can be one band smaller.
Over 200 a day, weigh it
A timer drifts about half a gram a dose. At 200 coffees a day that's 36kg a year in the knock box, around $1,800 of coffee. Grind by weight costs about $1,000 more.
Ask about the burrs
What are they rated for in kilos, and what does a fitted set cost? Those two numbers turn the price on the quote into the real price.
The rest is in the buying guide: burrs, heat, the waste maths, burr costs over five years, cleaning and the 10 questions to ask before you sign. A 12 minute read.
Read the grinder guideBuying a grinder? Talk to us.
Tell us which one you're after, or how many coffees you pour and we'll help you choose. Leave your details and we'll be in touch to arrange a time. No obligation, and no coffee contract tied to it.
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DanYou get one of us. We supply any of these at recommended retail, with WA service behind it.
Want the detail behind the picks? Read the grinder buying guide. Opening a cafe from scratch? Start with the cafe startup guide. Want our coffee in the hopper? That's the wholesale page.