Top 5 Ways to Liven Up Your Coffee at Work
Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
by Jenn Weesies
Summary: In most workplaces low quality break-room coffee leaves a lot to be desired. Here are five ways to liven up your coffee at work!
Some employees use coffee in the workplace to give them a jump start first thing in the morning. Some use coffee to get them through the afternoon slump. Others use it as a break from their job, and others still, to tackle the mounting work on their desks.
1.- Spice up the coffee condiments!
Why not add flavored creamers, natural sugars, spices, flavored syrups, whipped cream and other exciting options to your stock of coffee condiments? Employees will appreciate the selection and enjoy the unusual work coffee condiments. This is an easy and sure way to liven up your coffee at work.
2.- Improve your coffee brewing equipment.
The machine you use to brew your coffee in is half the battle. Local office coffee services will provide you with professional equipment free in return for buying your coffee from them and paying a premium for supplies.
A more cost effective option is to go online, purchase quality equipment yourself, and buy the supplies from an online cheaper coffee provider. Typically your coffee supplies will be about 20% cheaper compared to those provided to you by an office coffee service. Some online suppliers ship the same day the order is received, and delivery is usually free if you order $80 or more. Typically $80 is 4 weeks of coffee for an office of 15 to 25 employees. You will also be able to reduce your company's liability risk by not sending employees off-site in their personal vehicles to pick up the coffee. The coffee is delivered right to your office in pre-measured packages! Save yourself the time, liability and money by ordering online from a cheaper coffee supplier.
3.- Use a personalized mug.
Eliminate boring and environmentally unfriendly Styrofoam cups. Treating employees to their own personalized mugs not only makes their individual cup of coffee unique, but also eco-friendly. These make great appreciation gifts and can help you save money on break-room supplies in the long run.
4.- Keep a variety of gourmet coffee blends in stock.
Stocking your break-room with a variety of gourmet coffee blends offers all employees a better quality coffee every day. Gourmet coffee blends and other national brands ordered in pre-measured packages through online cheaper coffee suppliers can score you high quality coffee at a low price. For employees, just knowing that their employer cares enough about them to stock multiple types of quality coffee will dramatically improve their mood at work. Most importantly, a wide variety of gourmet coffee blends stocked in your break-room can liven up your coffee-work situation.
5.- Take coffee requests from all employees.
Let one employee each month make a special coffee request. It may be a full-bodied gourmet roast from a specific coffee shop or a specialty flavored gourmet coffee blend like vanilla crème or hazelnut. Your employees will feel appreciated when they have a say and will be excited to have something to look forward to as their month to pick coffee comes along. And surprisingly, you can usually order an entire pot of gourmet coffee from a cheaper coffee online supplier for what just 1 cup would cost you after you stand in line.
Whatever you do to liven up your coffee at work be sure it is easy, time-effective and budget friendly. There is no need to turn your break-room into a gourmet coffee shop, but offering more variety and options can really liven up the coffee at work. Employees will enjoy the small changes in the break-room and will feel more appreciated.
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Top-level comments on this article: (8 total)Great ideas, Jenn! I am not a coffee drinker, but I LOVE the smell of it, especially before it is brewed. I think your ideas would help keep morale high in any workplace.
this article should be sent to every single company ceo or president in america that has a coffee machine, most only offer plain coffee with one plain cream and think someone should thank them for it.. thanks for writing this articleDaleThanks Dale! Sometimes it is the little things that can boost morale.
Many companies are scratching to stay alive and you are pushing gourmet coffee, high end equipment, and flavored creamers on them. If the company provides free coffee to the employees, the employees shouldn't complain. Maybe they are lucky they are still getting paid. (Too many are not.) If they don't like the free coffee, they can stop during their commute at the way-over-priced coffee shops and buy their own $5 cup of coffee. Seems like someone needs to get their priorities in order.Bob-You are absolutely right, many companies are indeed struggling to get by and are forced to cut expensive benefits, bonus programs, and other more costly programs that communicate to employees that they care. Spicing up the break-room with some new alternatives that are far less expensive than the other slashed benefits can demonstrate that the employer still cares about its employees. It is tough out there- gourmet coffee and other national brands at wholesale prices (often very similar in price to the other stuff they are already supplying) let companies provide a little luxury on a budget.Jenn
never quite understood the excitement of coffee. Never got me to excited but i guess many people need the jolt in the morning - which of course makes them even more addictive to it. Great business model, wish I was involved in the huge money market that coffee brings in.Walter, you've got to visit Italy! You'll come back a changed man! :)Jennifer
Creative and probably really tasty ideas for a boss willing to hear you! Thanks Jenn!
Yes and the yummy smells that whoft through the office too from the gourmet blends bring a nice aroma therapy to the office...if you like coffee smells...lol...more bosses need this information.
I think anybody who writes about coffee deserves a medal! On the serious side, I think your suggestions are an excellent way of letting employees know that they're valued. Thanks.
Agreed all around!! Jenn - you do a great job of pointing out these easy & cost-effective ways. I'm always looking for ways to spice up my morning java :)
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