Fresh coffee roasted in Lombard, a staff cafe your students run from an iPad, and a coffee fundraiser your students bag and sell. One box. We set it up. Your students run it. Try it free for four weeks.
Specialty grade coffee roasted in Lombard by Spiritus Coffee and delivered to your door. Roasted days before it arrives, not months.
Staff scan a QR code, type their email, and order from their phone before the morning cutoff. No app store, no password to remember.
Orders show up as big, clear cards on any iPad or tablet. Students make the drink and tap it done. Prefer paper? Tickets can print on your school printer.
Picture recipes, a printed QR poster, a menu built for your cafe, and a training session for the teacher in charge. Then a monthly check in.
Bulk roasted coffee, bags, labels and a heat sealer. Students weigh, fill, seal and label 12 ounce bags, then sell them to families and staff, or at a farmers market.
Taking orders, making drinks, weighing, sealing, counting money. Real work with real customers, built around your students’ goals.
Open the staff cafe on day one and add the fundraiser bags for the holidays. This is how S.E.A.L. in Lombard runs it.
Start with the fundraiser. A partner program turns 20 pounds of our coffee into 26 bags a month and sells them to raise money, with no cafe and a small staff. Open the cafe when you are ready.
Scan the QR poster in the staff lounge, or open the link we send.
Type your email and tap the sign in link that arrives. You stay signed in all year.
Pick a drink, add a note like your room number, and tap order. Your usual is saved for one tap reorders.
Open the cafe screen on the iPad. It is already signed in.
Each order appears as a card with the drink, the name, and where it goes.
Make it, deliver it, tap the card. A picture recipe is one tap away.
Turn a drink off when you run out, or pause ordering on a hard day.
Set the cutoff time and a daily limit so the pace fits your students.
See today’s orders and totals at a glance.
We set up your cafe, bring the coffee, and run it alongside you for four school weeks. You pay nothing and sign nothing to try it.
Your cafe in the app, menu and recipes, QR poster, 10 pounds of coffee, a setup visit or video call, and a check in each week.
A teacher in charge, a brewer or the equipment you already have, cups and milk, and an iPad or tablet for the students.
Staff signed up, orders a day, and how much of the work students handle on their own. You get a one page results summary at the end.
Keep going at founding school pricing, or walk away. Pilot schools that continue skip the setup fee.
We never take a cut of your sales. You choose how the cafe works: free to staff from your program budget, or staff pay with a card from a prepaid balance. Either way, nobody handles cash.
Here is what a typical cafe can look like over a school year. Your numbers will differ; the pilot shows you yours.
| Example: 25 drinks a day, 160 cafe days | School year |
|---|---|
| Sales at $2.50 a drink | $10,000 |
| Coffee from us, about 20 pounds a month | ($2,700) |
| Cups, lids and milk, about 45 cents a drink | ($1,800) |
| Still Here program, founding price | ($2,490) |
| Left for student wages, trips and supplies | $3,010 |
Staff pay about half of what they would at a coffee chain, the drink comes to their door, and the money stays with your students.
Twenty pounds of coffee costs about $276 and makes 26 bags. Sold at our store price of $19, that is $494. Your program nearly doubles its money every month, and your students did the work.
Four school weeks, coffee included.
A month during the school year. App, student screen, recipes, support and a monthly coaching call.
A month for a typical cafe, about 20 pounds. Billed by the pound at wholesale. Order more or less any month.
Setup is $1,500 for founding schools and is waived for pilot schools that continue. Starting with bags only? You pay just for coffee until your cafe opens. Month to month during the school year. Everything stays under the usual purchase thresholds, so it can be paid as program supplies.
The pilot is free. After that, a cafe charging staff even $2 a drink usually covers the program and the coffee. The cost sits under common purchase thresholds, so it is a supplies line, not a bid. Local foundations and donors also fund programs like this, and we can help you ask.
Keep what works. We replace the paper slips and Google Forms with a real ordering screen, and replace pods with fresh coffee that costs less per cup.
There is nothing to download. It is a web page. Scan a code, type an email, tap the link. Most people order their first drink in under a minute.
Nothing installs on school devices. The student screen runs in the iPad’s web browser. We store staff names and emails only. No student records, no student accounts.
Then do not. Run the cafe free to staff, paid from your program budget or a donor. If you do want sales, staff pay by card into a prepaid balance. No cash drawer, ever.
You control the pace. A morning cutoff means students see every order before they start. A daily limit caps the rush. Start with brewed coffee only and add drinks as they are ready.
That is the point. Your drink costs about half, it is roasted fresher, it is delivered to your room, and every cup pays a student.
Rules are local, so we give you a checklist for your county and walk through it with you. Brewed coffee is among the simplest things a school can serve.
We do. You get a direct line, a weekly check in during the pilot, and a monthly coaching call after. We watch the system so problems often get fixed before you notice.
Stop. It is month to month during the school year. If staff hold prepaid balances, you get a statement for each person so you can settle them under your own rules.
Spiritus Coffee is a small roaster in Lombard, Illinois. Students in the transition program at S.E.A.L. label and pack our coffee for real wages and run a staff cafe on this same system. We built the program so any school can have what works there, without building it from scratch.
Tell us your school, how many staff, and what equipment you have. We will set up a 20 minute call and have your cafe live within two weeks.
info@spirituscoffeeco.com(331) 241 6153Nick Bianco, founder, Spiritus Coffee Co. and the Still Here School Cafe Program. 1106 N Main St, Lombard, Illinois.