If ever there was a machine that was built to meet any need, any budget, any decor, any pocket book, any style etc, This is it! I am confident that with proper training and understanding of how Espresso and Cappuccino, latte mocha etc are produced (without the contamination of all the gargle gup that you can find on the Internte by self style Gurus who think they were born to teach you how to make Cappuccino quite often on very conflicting ways with each other), this machine could be the best every built in the world. And if God forbid, you cannot produce enough with this machine, (in which case it's the luckist thing you could be hit with), then you buy the second one and even the third without even considering the suggestion of some prophets of espresso and cappuccino who suggest (never even consider it !!) you buy a three and four group monster for twice the price that three of this would you. Just wake up to the reality of the Espresso business in the year 2003 and beyond. Be a realist and think if you buy a three and four group machine, the chances of it breaking down and leaving you stranded are not minimized by such a monster but rather increased by the fact that you are out of a lot of money, the use of the machines and You have to apologize profusely to your customers for not being able to server them a cappuccino. The chances of that hapenning when you have more than one machine(providing the cost allows it) are almost nil. Call me anytime at 817-640-3131 for further explanation of this "my point of view".