This is overall a good coffee maker that makes good-tasting coffee. However, the previous Cuisenart burr grinder we had allow us to fill a hopper with enough beans for several days of coffee, choose how many cups we wanted, and then the machine measured out the right amount of beans for that number of cups. This is not a huge burden, but it certainly was a welcome convenience, and we thought we were getting the same feature and didn't realize differently until we started using it. The clean-up, however, is great - super easy. Everything comes apart and can be washed and easily re-installed.  
In this model, one has to measure the beans every day