My friend and I are opening up a coffee shop in Poland. We've been recommended the following 5 brands
*cimbali
*gaggia
*saeco
*faema
I know it's very subjective. But I'm interested in which brand makes the yummiest coffee?
All will do a great job. We've got La Marzocco FB-70 in the lab and a San Marco in the factory outlet. We sell La Pavonis and La Cimbalis. There are few Faemas in the installed base that we service. The first fully automatic I placed was an Acorto 2000s. I had a Saeco at home and now have an Isomac.
From all that... once you're in a certain class of machine, make sure that the grinder and coffee are on par with the machine. And keep in clean.