Fast Coffee

About the business

Fast Coffee is a Canadian chain of self-service coffee points, run from an Ottawa address at 208 Booth Street.

The company describes its mission as making quality coffee available to everyone by building a self-service experience around it, and it publishes a single phone line and an email for both visitors and prospective partners.

A Fast Coffee point is one unit: a coffee machine, a place for cups, sugar, napkins and straws, and a payment terminal. The company sets out four steps on its site — choose a drink, pay for the order, put the cup in the machine, take the finished coffee — so that nobody has to queue for a barista. The unit is lit, black and yellow, and carries a running stick figure with a cup on its side.

The menu runs to eight drinks, with prices published on the site: espresso at $2.75, espresso cortado at $2.95, americano and americano with milk at $3.45, cappuccino at $3.65, mocha at $3.75, latte at $3.85, and hot chocolate at $3.15.

The company places its points in spaces where people wait or gather — fitness clubs, daycares and activity centres, offices and co-working spaces, clinics, learning centres and community hubs. It says installation is plug-and-play, that the point needs no staff on site, and that Fast Coffee itself handles supplies, service and maintenance. In October 2025 it announced a new point at Katimavik 150, in the premises of a gymnastics club in Kanata. Alongside the coffee points it sells a franchise in three formats — Start, Business and VIP — with the entry figure published on its homepage as $17,900 CAD, and offers franchisees a financial model, training, marketing materials and a dedicated manager.

On 13 September 2025 Fast Coffee brought a mobile coffee stand to Ukrainian Fest Lanark County in Carleton Place. Writing about the day afterwards, the company said taking part was a way to share its own idea that good coffee should be within reach of anyone, anywhere, and that it was proud to stand with the community behind the festival.