How much does your company spend on coffee?

[RadiclDreamer]

they would be silly to take it away. it would kill morale and production. 6k really ain't that bad to keep it up.

I would have free coffee, water and soda. You keep people happy they do better work.

My company just took away the coffee from our dept..it was only around $800 a year. Talk about a quick way to piss people off with little return.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Hmmm...pretty sure that my hospital makes a buttload on the coffee they sell in the cafeteria. We pay for our own coffee supplies in our office "kitchen".

 

[MovingTarget]

Water fountains are a pain in the ass to try and fill a water bottle up with. Plus if you live in a place with water quality like I do...the water coming out of these things tastes like pool water that was drained into a bucket full of pennies, and then allowed to sit in the sun for a week. BLEH!

I can see your point about areas with low water quality. I guess I'm just spoiled here. For areas with good water quality, it seems like somebody should have a design of water fountain that would be more amenable to filling up water bottles.

 

[vi edit]

I can see your point about areas with low water quality. I guess I'm just spoiled here. For areas with good water quality, it seems like somebody should have a design of water fountain that would be more amenable to filling up water bottles.

A vendor I trained at had a pretty cool setup. They had a water fountain, but right next to it was a recessed area in the wall where you could fit in a water bottle or drinking cup with a button that you pushed to provide filtered water. It wasn't R/O water, but at least it was filtered and more easily dispensed than a fountain.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Mine does not pay for coffee but they do have a keurig, microwave and other appliances. They do pay for water though. I'm not a big coffee drinker but if I'm super tired I'll drink one for the caffeine. Seems it would be more efficient to just drink the caffeine straight in a shot glass.

 

[xanis]

Maybe $11/month? We order it in bulk (the packages would be alternator-sized, if I had to guess ) and it's not much money. I throw in $20 for the "coffee club" and that gets me unlimited coffee for the year.

 

[Saint Nick]

Mine does not pay for coffee but they do have a keurig, microwave and other appliances. They do pay for water though. I'm not a big coffee drinker but if I'm super tired I'll drink one for the caffeine. Seems it would be more efficient to just drink the caffeine straight in a shot glass.

Caffeine pills do exists!

 

[Xecuter]

Free caribou, no idea how much they spend

 

[Red Squirrel]

Caffeine pills do exists!

Brilliant, I forgot about those. Then a shot of pure caffeine as the chaser. :awe:

 

[T_Yamamoto]

My dads work place (IBM) used to have free Snapple and Starbucks. But now they don't.

 

[jagec]

A vendor I trained at had a pretty cool setup. They had a water fountain, but right next to it was a recessed area in the wall where you could fit in a water bottle or drinking cup with a button that you pushed to provide filtered water. It wasn't R/O water, but at least it was filtered and more easily dispensed than a fountain.

Yeah, some water fountains have bottle fillers, all of them SHOULD.

My work doesn't pay for coffee, but they put in a Keurig. I don't get it, myself; the coffee's more expensive than making it yourself in a French press, but not as good.

 

[mizzou]

$6,000 K-Cups = $100,000 extra productivity?

Good deal to me, and you don't have to deal with the dumbass who put in too much or too little bean grinds

 

[NutBucket]

Now we've got engineers stacking bottled water and coffee makers in their offices. A safety inspection last week warns employees that these types of things are earthquake and fire hazards.

I'm an engineer. There's a coffee maker to my right and about 10 gallons of distilled water behind me. Is there a problem?

 

[Chapbass]

My office of 18-20 people (about 10 of which are coffee drinkers) just got one of these for free since we consume a lot of coffee from one of our vendors:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjoy/228358045/

Coffee costs went down a lot i think, as I know the k-cups were getting way to expensive.

 

[dank69]

My company bought a bunch of K-cup machines but then someone noticed that their coffee budget was gonna go from ~%50k a year to well over $200k. They liquidated the machines as soon as the first k-cup stock was gone.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Not sure. We get free coffee, soft drinks, waters, etc. It's pretty good coffee too (local place that supplies business around town).

Why does your company use K-Cups? That seems like a very inefficient way to go...

 

[dquan97]

$0, they make us pay.

here too

 

[RossMAN]

$0

 

[zerocool84]

Not sure. We get free coffee, soft drinks, waters, etc. It's pretty good coffee too (local place that supplies business around town).

Why does your company use K-Cups? That seems like a very inefficient way to go...

Waste of money. My company buys in bulk, 20 cases of 20 bags each of pre ground "premium" coffee at a time. The owners buy their own K-cups for themselves but for a whole company is retarded.

 

[Anubis]

a ton, pretty sure my office area alone brews 50 pots a day, and there are 8 other areas that have their own coffee stations. we get crap coffee however, non k cup normal pre ground drip stuff

 

[MovingTarget]

Yeah, some water fountains have bottle fillers, all of them SHOULD.

Thats a nice setup. I'm surprised that they don't come standard.

 

[wty]

0,of course!

 

[Zee]

2K a week here

 

[Red Squirrel]

2K a week here

Only the finest Starbucks coffee? :biggrin:

 

[Doppel]

$0.