Does Your Employer Provide Coffee and Other Beverages for Staff?

[furb & dez]

Our company has Starbuck's machines on each floor (so... coffee, decaf, hot chocolate, hot water), and provides a nice selection of teas. There are ice machines as well, in addition to soda machines (50¢) and various vending machines.

 

[Missy1961]

All we get is water, and that's because the water fountains don't work. But then, I've worked for this company for almost 30 years, and we have never had free drinks/snacks/food provided. Once in a while at holiday time, but even that isn't automatic.

 

[Angelhalo]

Hubbies office has free soda fountains and also has a KEG in the breakroom! LOL!

 

[Pixiedust34]

I'm a full time mom, but I can answer for my dh's work situation. He is a teacher, and there's nothing free. He runs an informal Coffee Club at work. People chip in for coffee, and he'll buy the coffee and set up the machine each morning (he's almost always the first person there). He also buys sugar and the powdered cream to go with the coffee with the money people contribute.

People who want tea or other beverages bring drinks from home.

 

[2binak]

I work for a very large corporation. Our employer provides water (hot & cold).

 

[candykisses]

Our company provides free coffee, tea and hot chocolate along with the sugar and non dairy creamer.

We have 2 full kitchens with 3 refrigerators each, an ice machine, toaster ovens, oven with range top and microwaves. The other floors just have the same except for the oven with range top.

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[Disney845]

I chose the response provides daily snacks, although I don't think I would use that phrase myself to describe it.

We have a "petty cash" budget at our office. This provides for supplies such as TP, paper towels, cleaning supplies, plastic cups, plates, forks, etc. It also supplies us with bottled water, soda, coffee, and various other "snacks" I guess you would call them (crackers, single serving chip bags, etc).

Our company is small and privately owned, but we have things on hand for business meetings that take place here and to make some of the people who stop by the office (good customers, delivery drivers, etc) happy by offering them a coke and a baggie of chips while they wait, etc. The supplies are mostly for employees though and we don't abuse it (everything is consumed here at work, nothing taken home). For example, 2/3rds of the office doesn't drink coffee, but the owner does when he wants to come in for a meeting (which could be any random day, so we waste a lot of coffee, because he wants it ready for him when he gets here, etc). Occasionally we might use the petty cash to buy the office lunch if we have some big thing going on that would prevent regular lunch taking.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

We have bottled water and a water cooler (it also has hot water now, we got an upgrade when the last one died) but that is because the water is not drinkable from the tap.

We bring in our own coffee (I brought in a Keurig) and anything else that we want.

The boss does buy me lunch from time to time as I am the only permanent full time employee that is normally in the office.

 

[DawnM]

My husband's office has some sort of industrial Keurig type machine and tons of different pods.....coffee, tea, hot chocolate, lattes, chai, that sort of thing.

They also provide breakfast about once per week, usually Fridays (bagels, donuts, fruit, that sort of thing.)

In addition to the business lunches they take him on, the golf games he gets to play on the company dime......he has it MADE!

However, he does work hard and often has his computer on until after 10pm at home to get the work done.

In my job we had machines but we had to pay an amount for it.

Dawn

 

[JustCallMeMommy]

My current company is good - we always have coffee available, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we provide 2 healthy snacks (fruit, yogurt, cheese, peanut butter, etc.) along with bottled water.

 

[hambirg]

While I was teaching, there was a coffee club where coffee drinkers contributed for coffee. I'm not a coffee drinker so I didn't participate. But there was a basket where you could make a donation if you happened to want coffee on an odd day. Also subs were free to drink coffee, but could contribute if they wanted to.

When I was younger and working in restaurants, we could drink coffee or soda if we wanted.

When I was working driving ADA, there was no rhyme or reason to it. But the company didn't provide coffee. If it was getting low somebody would just bring in more.

 

[klmall]

I work for a company that does federal and private contracts; mostly surveys and studies of different kinds. We have coffee, tea, and hot water in every kitchen on every floor of each of our 5 buildings. You have to put the coffee packets in the machine (and empty old ones out) but it's no work to do so. The building services/cleaning staff clean the machines out each night.

It's a treat I never experienced working for a public school system for 36 years so I enjoy it!

 

[avgeek81]

We dont get snacks everyday but a few times a month we have special snack days. Like chips and soda, milk and cereal or fresh fruit day. I havent seen it lately but in the past I have seen people bringing stuff home to feed their family. Also whatever they provide us there are always people who complain that they don't have the stuff they like.

 

[klacey1]

We have a Keurig (coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cappuccinos)on every floor, along with milk/creamer/sugar. We also have free canned soda in the fridge and free M&Ms, pretzels, trail mix, and some other random snacks. Every month we have a company Happy Hour with free food/drinks in the office; every other Friday, we have free bagels/pastries/OJ

 

[pixiefairy]

Where I work now...nothing. They used to supply water bottles (we have a mini fridge), but asked if we could throw some spare change to it. Too many people abused it...took the bottles and only drank half and wasted them without paying, so they stopped that. On occasion I'll pick up a 24 pack, but only rarely. If we want food or drink, we bring it ourselves.

When I was full time in an office, we had tea, and coffee with powdered creamer. The coffee maker had a spigot for hot water. But we had a fridge and a microwave, so we could bring our own things to eat or drink. We had coffee cups provided and cabinets if we wanted to bring in ceramic mugs or plates.

Dh's office has a coffee club...they all chip in and my dh has a pot I bought him for his office. They buy the good stuff for work..lol.

Love those Keurig pots! I just did a musical for community theater and our musical director's wife is a rep...we had a Keurig and many different pods of tea and coffee for about three weeks...it was great. I got hooked on it!

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

Coffee, tea, water

 

[cari12]

My employer supplies coffee and tea (a multitude of K-cup varieties), hot chocolate and a filtered water cooler.

 

[cornflake]

Guess where my friend works.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

My husband's company has a full cafeteria in it where you can buy a hot lunch for $3.00 a day!! That includes a salad and some type of bread/roll with butter. If the $3.00 is too steep for your budget you can get free coffee/tea and all the soup you care to eat.

DH says the food is great and his lunches are usually a few bowls of soup and coffee. Works great for our budget.

 

[Tink&SquirtsMom]

Dh works for a large internet company (not Google). They have free fountain sodas and bottled drinks (Snapples, iced teas, etc) on every floor, and a free fully staffed coffee shop on the 1st floor of every building, with employees waiting to make you mochas, lattes, etc.