Employers are upgrading their coffee as an added perk for employees who are spending long hours at the office. Last summer, Microsoft upgraded from automatic-drip coffee to the Starbucks Interactive Cup Brewer on each floor of every one of its buildings nationwide. SpineUniverse LLC recently bought a Starbucks Barista machine, but unfortunately the machine turned out to be too complicated for company president Jeremy Longhurst. He's had hot water shoot onto his pants three times while he's tried to brew a cup. "If I look pitiful enough, employees will take pity on me and make me a cup," he says. (Wall Street Journal)
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We have one of those machines at my office, and the coffee it produces is indeed pretty good.
However, we also have an outpost of the best espresso bar in Seattle (Espresso Vivace) in the downstairs lobby, so by comparison...
Posted by: Jen | March 23, 2007 at 07:15 PM
vending machines...gah.
I'm glad i'm gone
Posted by: DT | March 24, 2007 at 10:08 AM
I have been betrayed by Starbucks! And I'm even a modest stockholder! I bought a coffee pot and a teapot from starbuckstore.com. I accessed Starbucks.com by clicking USAirways. On their site is an option to pay through Google which offers a saving so I used that method. Why did I go through all this and pay shipping when I have a Starbucks up the street and could have saved the shipping charge? Because I wanted the mileage credit on US Airways.com to prevent losing all my points.
And Starbucks has lied to USAirways and said I did not go thorugh them to reach Starbuckstore.com. Why would they screw over a customer?
Posted by: Nancy | March 24, 2007 at 01:46 PM
Nancy-
My guess is that when you decided to take the 10% by checking out through Google; you were deciding to no longer link through USAirways.
Posted by: CoffeeMaker | March 24, 2007 at 04:55 PM
I'm sure those machines do indeed make good coffee, but I don't know...office coffee just isn't the same. It's the atmosphere. You get up, you brew, you go back to your desk. There's no music, no people-watching.
No matter the quality of the coffee itself, office coffee sucks.
Posted by: Tall Drip | March 26, 2007 at 05:42 AM
By the way, that company president who can't operate the espresso machine is a moron. This reflects what I've always known about many upper managers...they barely know how to tie their own shoes.
Posted by: Tall Drip | March 26, 2007 at 05:45 AM