Bunn Corporation is a manufacturer of coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

- and tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

-making equipment headquartered in Springfield, Illinois

Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...

. Founded by George Bunn, who invented the fluted coffee filter, its customers are primarily institutional foodservice

Foodservice

Food Service or catering industry defines those businesses, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal prepared outside the home...

 providers. The company also offers a product line for home use and introduced the first commercial quality drip brewer for the home market in 1972. Its products are sold under the Bunn and Bunn-o-Matic brands. The company introduced the world's first automatic drip-brew coffee maker in 1963. The current C.E.O. and president is Arthur H. Bunn.

BUNN is the US distributor of the Tiger super automatic espresso machine made by Thermoplan AG

Thermoplan AG

Thermoplan AG is a manufacturer of kitchen appliance for foodservice. The headquarter of the company founded 1974 by Domenic Steiner is located in Weggis, Switzerland....

, the company famous for making the Starbucks

Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...

 Mastrena.

The current list of Bunn home coffee brewers includes the NHBX, GRX, and BX models which are all 10 cup (50oz.) coffee brewers. The GRX and BX models also come in high-altitude models. Also included in the Bunn home brewer collection are the BTX and STX, which both use a 10 cup (50 oz.) double-walled thermal carafe to keep coffee hotter longer. Both of these models also come in high-altitude models. The company also sells the 'My Cafe' Coffee Pod brewer system. The 'My Cafe' coffee maker brews single cups of coffee or tea using a coffee pod

Coffee pod

Coffee pods are pre-packaged ground coffee beans in their own filter. In certain non-English speaking countries, such as Germany and The Netherlands, the word "pad" is used instead of "pod", for semantic reasons....

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