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As offices reopen, Coffee Star’s chief executive talks Coffee ATMs on BFM 89.9
Speaking to BFM 89.9’s Open For Business as workplaces reopened in June 2020, Coffee Star’s chief executive covered the Coffee ATM, the Coffee For Frontliners project and his own enthusiasm for coffee.
KUALA LUMPUR, 22 June 2020 — Workplaces were coming back to life after the first lockdown, and with them returned an old morning habit: the search for the nearest cup of coffee. Coffee, in other words, was going back to work.
That was the backdrop BFM 89.9 gave to an episode of its Open For Business programme with Raja Ahmad Fauzan, the founder and chief executive of Coffee Star. Titled A Fresh Take On Coffee, the 23-minute podcast interview went out at 10.39 am on 22 June 2020 as part of BFM’s business programming. The station’s billing had some fun with his job title, recasting CEO as “Coffee Enthusiastic Officer”.
The conversation turned on three subjects. One was personal: his own enthusiasm for coffee.
Another was the machine itself. BFM set the Coffee ATM beside the ordinary vending machine, and the discussion centred on what separated the two. The station filed the interview under F&B, automation, the internet of things and self-service, tagging it as much a technology story as a food-and-drink one.
The last was the company’s Coffee For Frontliners project.
Today, Coffee Star runs Auto-Baristas at more than 114 locations across Malaysia. On 24 September 2026 it launched its fully managed Office Coffee Service at MIHAS 2026.
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