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The humble office vending machine has come a long way from the days when you were lucky if it dispensed chocolate bars and potato chips in addition to tea and coffee. The bigger offices no longer find it adequate to invest in an office coffee machine. This is because clock-watching is frowned upon in corporate culture. So if the personnel need to be in office for extended hours, they certainly need more than just their routine cups of tea and coffee.

The proliferation of office coffee machines occurred when savvy managers/employers began to realize that installing an office coffee machine actually saved time and money for both the company and the employees. The company saved money in terms of salary for an office peon who prepared and then served beverages to the staff. The personnel benefitted by getting tea and coffee when they wanted rather than having to depend on the whimsy of some peon. So an office which boasted of its own office coffee machine was perceived as having a sugar daddy management.

Changes came with the spread of the 24×7 culture. When employees need to work in different shifts to embrace globalization, then the most critical of physical needs – food and beverages – naturally began to occupy center stage in the office planning process. The office vending machine began to upstage the office coffee machine. While some office vending machines still dispense only traditional crisps, pizzas, sodas and sandwiches; in offices where the management realizes the importance of healthy staff, office vending machines stock fruit smoothies, fresh fruit slices/servings, yogurt, juices, homemade granola bars, along with confectioneries and biscuits.

Manufacturers have contributed to this revolution by offering more and more sophisticated office vending machines. You can choose how many kinds of products can be dispensed by the all helix glass front merchandiser. These come in sleek designs which add to the slick look of the office and can vend a wide variety of sizes of bag and confectionary lines.

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First let me explain the K-cup phenomenon for those under a rock: K-cups are tiny plastic sealed cups that are pre-filled with ground coffee (ick!). They are placed in a special coffee brewer and used to brew a single-serving cup of coffee. It’s a great concept, but one that is nowhere near to being new. It is a method that was developed to make money on, forgoing quality. The K-cup idea is also for the ease of doing it all and a supposed better tasting cup of joe. But not so! Single serve coffee (one cup at a time) is an old idea but one that is still alive with Melitta, Clever and other companies that have quality coffee in mind.
I have been asked to sell K-Cups by several people. Whenever I am asked this I always answer no. No. NO NO NO! The reason is quality. What you ask? Well let me count the ways…if you DON’T want a quality cup of coffee that is.
1. Coffee beans should never be ground until just before you brew your coffee. That’s Coffee 101. Us coffee geeks talk this stuff all the time because coffee is porous and will stale very fast after grinding. You can’t guarantee that the ground coffee in a K-cup is ground and placed in the cup and sealed in a matter of seconds. I won’t believe you if you say it! I will believe one word though: stale!
2. Whatever they tell you they put, squirt, inject, spray, yadda yadda yadda in the K-cup to keep the coffee fresh will not keep ground coffee beans fresh. It’s as simple as that. Grind, brew, enjoy. Not, grind, let sit out forever, package in a cup, store, ship, display on a store shelf forever…..yikes that is scary!
3. How long has the package of K-cups been on the grocery store shelf? Wait!! There’s a date on the package! Savior! Not! I’ll say it again, once coffee is ground you need to brew it in a matter of minutes or it’s throw away time.
There is also the invention of the My K-cups, which are reusable. These may be a tad better because at least you can grind your own beans to use in them. However you are still at the mercy of a home brewer that will most likely eventually not heat water correctly (195 to 205 degrees) or stop altogether. The heating elements on these types of brewers are not made to last. Not even for a $100 brewer. So what do you do?
I have been enjoying single serve coffee for years. There are many methods to accomplish a quality single cup of coffee one at a time but I am going to share one of them with you. And guess what? It’s a lot cheaper than K-cups and the expensive brewers you have to buy in order to brew bad, stale coffee.
Newsflash! You can buy a Melitta single serve pour-over brewer for about $3.99 (Google it). All you need additionally is hot water, a cone filter, a coffee grinder, thermometer, your favorite mug and fresh roasted gourmet coffee beans. Most people have these items already. But if not, the most expensive thing to get is a hand grinder. You can get these for about $20 at Target. Giddy yup!
And by the way, try to avoid buying coffee at the grocery store as well. It’s usually stale too, even the whole bean coffees. Get your beans from a quality, independent coffee shop or roaster. Look them up; I’ll bet there’s one within a mile or two of your home.
I know you’re thinking this is a lot of work for a cup of coffee though. Hey, I didn’t say you didn’t have to work a little for it. Remember that the beautiful city of Rome was not built in a day ok? If you want to enjoy what probably will be the best cup of coffee you have had in years, trust me this is quite worth the effort.
Be sure to grind your coffee slightly between auto-drip (normal) and coarse grind. Use the unbleached (brown) cone filters and drop your grounds in. Put the Melitta brewer on top of your mug. You can use a kettle or pan on the stove top to heat the water between 195-205°F (for proper extraction). Then, pour about 1/3 of it onto the grounds and be sure they get totally saturated. Count to about 20 then pour the rest of the water in. It should take about 2 mins to brew through completely. Voila, you just made an excellent single-serve cup of quality coffee, better than any K-cup will ever get you. Congratulations!
Now, who needs bad coffee in K-cups and expensive coffee makers for them? Certainly not you! You can enjoy a great single-serve brewing method at home. And there are many coffee shops that make a single-cup of coffee like this and charge a premium price for it, topping $3-4 and up for a 12oz cup! You can enjoy organic and decaffeinated coffee this way as well. Trust me it’s worth the effort to produce a great cup of coffee, at home or at a quality coffee shop. Sip it, savor it, repeat.
Tony DiCorpo is a coffee roaster, barista trainer and coffee business consultant. He has authored many articles on coffee and the coffee business. Tony has extensive experience in business and collectively more than 20 years experience in sales, business management, entrepreneurship and the coffee business.
He is a partner in The North Coast Barista School where they instruct new coffee shop owners how to open and be profitable as well as barista training. He also owns Troubadour Coffee Roasting Co. where he sells coffee and espresso equipment and wholesale coffee beans.

Today’s article is a regular shopper’s review of the use of printable grocery coupons. This review should give you the information you need to make an informed decision on whether or not you wan to use them to save time and money on your trips to the grocery store. It will also include how and where to find the best ones and print them any time you need them.
Printable grocery coupons are the modern replacement for coupons that shoppers have clipped out of newspapers and circulars for decades. The general idea of shopping using coupons is still the same.
Consumers turn in coupons when they buy things at the grocery store. The value of the coupon is subtracted from the total grocery bill. Most stores will allow you to stack coupons. In stacking you add the printable grocery coupons value with that of a manufacturer or store coupon. This results in extra savings.
Many stores will also allow coupon overage, too. This is when you redeem a coupon worth more than the sales price of an item. The money left over, the overage, is subtracted from the shopper’s total bill. This results in more savings and even receiving items for free.
Although it may look like they are losing money on them, grocery stores really do profit from coupon campaigns. Product manufacturers will reimburse the grocery stores the dollar value of all coupons redeemed by their shoppers, and an additional amount to reimburse them for handling the coupons.
The process of collecting grocery coupons is much better now using printable grocery coupons. Instead of burning up a lot of hours searching the newspapers or weekly flyers and clipping coupons, now consumers use the Internet.
There are a number of web pages where you can quickly find the exact coupons you need, any time you want to. Then it’s just a matter of printing them out and heading to the store. You can still save money on the brands you are used to buying. You can still shop at the same grocery stores. This way you save time, also. And these coupons are free also.
Review the many advantages. It just makes sense to shop with printable grocery coupons.
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