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Top 5 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.

In most workplaces low quality break-room coffee leaves a lot to be desired. Through supplying employees with a few key tools, ingredients, and gourmet coffee blends, livening up the coffee at work is easy. Here are five simple suggestions:

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 cr�me 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.

Starbucks brewed coffee?
I want to try some of the different coffees they have, not the drinks like latte or mocha, but the actual different brews. http://www.starbucks.com/ourcoffees/menuboard.asp?category%5fname=coffee+menu+board ^Those, but I am thinking they don't brew all those everyday and you can't just go in and tell them to brew you a cup of your choice on the spot right? Do they pick one each week/day or something and that is the one they use? How do they do it and how do you find out which one they have that day? And are other places like The Coffee Bean like that too? Thanks.

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Does anyone know the menu?
Does anyone know the Starbucks Coffee Menu?!?! Like with all the drinks and stuff...

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Is this LEGAL? I GOT KICKED OUT OF A COFFEE SHOP!?
I had people watching assignment (yes yes I know) for my University Criminal Justice class. I headed to the downtown section of my small town, running a few blocks through the pouring rain to a small "coffee shop". Now, this little shop has huge glass windows and window seats, so you can sit at the window and watch everything going on downtown. It's advertised as "coffee house by day and martini bar by night." Now..its almost 4 O'clock when I get there. I had walked up to the counter and asked to see the coffee menu. I fully intended to buy coffee, and I've heard their Americano is quite good. Immeaditly the lady behind the counter says she needs to see my I.D or I need to leave. I ask why, and she says because minors arent allowed in here without a parent. She then starts patronizing me by calling me "hun" and "sweetie" a few times....Keep in mind Im maybe five years younger than her. This place has always been billed as a "coffee house" during the day...So why would they not advertise you have to be 21 to have coffee there? I hadnt even ordered a coffee yet. I;ve never drank a sip of acohol in my life, nor do I really intend to. AND I WASNT SITTING AT THE BAR EITHER! I'm 19 years old and a sophomore at University...Can she technically kick me out of an establishment that claims to be a coffee house during the day? Any business has the right to deny services to anyone, legally, I just dont really get how she felt it necessary to throw me out. And no, I wasnt dirty, out of hand, or unshelved looking: soaking wet from the downpour outside, but that's it.

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Coffee May Be Part of the Recipe for a Longer Life

Title: Coffee May Be Part of the Recipe for a Longer Life Category: Health News Created: 5/17/2012 11:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 5/17/2012 12:00:00 AM

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