The cost of employees leaving the office

I came across this statistic today, and felt that it was something that needed to be shared. I guess we knew that running to Starbucks was expensive, but never knew it could cost this much:

According to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, one quarter of the employees will leave the office to get a hot beverage if none is provided. When employees leave to get their hot beverage, companies are losing money. With 75 employees, 18.75 will leave the office, daily that equals 155 days annually of lost productivity. Based on an average salary of $40,000, the lost revenue for the company is $23,484.

About Corporate Essentials:

Corporate Essentials is Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and Westchester's premiere office coffee service. Stocking more than 1,200 products for your office pantry, including hot & cold beverages, paper products, cleaning supplies and health aids, Corporate Essentials is the only Office refreshment vendor you need.

Take a Coffee Break.

Just wanted to add a little fun to your day. Give Tetris a try. Simply use the arrows on your keyboard to control the falling pieces. Enjoy!!!

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Mrs. Meyer's All Purpose Cleaner Bottle Saves Goat

For about a month now Corporate Essentials has been stocking the Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day line of chemical-free cleaning products. When we decided to bring in the Mrs. Meyer's line, we knew that we'd be giving our customers an opportunity to help our environment (by going green with Mrs. Meyer's chemical-free products), but we never knew that these products could also be used to save an injured, pregnant goat. That was until we found this letter on Mrs. Meyer's website:

Dear Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day,

Your All Purpose Cleaner bottle is currently on a leg of one of our pregnant goats. Cookie broke her back leg and when I first saw it I thought it was all over for her, but I called the vet and he told me how to splint the break. The empty bottle (with top and bottom removed) fit perfectly over her leg! She has been proudly sporting her Mrs. Meyer’s cast for almost 8 weeks. I am sure the bottle’s support has contributed to her leg mending. Cookie and her expectant kid thank you, and so do I.

Sincerely,
Mary Jane
Mansfield, MO



To see our full line of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day products, click here. If you'd like to request a sample of Mrs. Meyer's products simply send an email to joes@drinkcoffee.com.

New Green Mountain products now in stock

This week Corporate Essentials began stocking two new Extra Bold K-Cup varieties (Kenyan AA and Fair Trade Organic Espresso Blend), as well as the much-anticipated Hot Cocoa K-Cup from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

While we have given the most attention recently to the long-awaited release of Green Mountain's hot chocolate for Keurig brewers, the two Extra Bold K-Cups are already some of the best available.

While grouped into Green Mountain's Extra Bold Collection, the Kenyan AA is actually a medium roast coffee. In the past few years this same roast (Kenyan AA) has been rated as high as 96/100 on CoffeeReview.com in whole bean and ground varieties. And from my best judgement, the translation to a single-serve k-cup has taken nothing away from this great brew.

While these three products are not limited editions, we do expect the demand to be very high.All of these products are available now at our online ordering website MyDrinkCoffee.com.

Mrs. Meyer's makes "Going Green" easy

Corporate Essentials is proud to try and do our part in helping more and more organizations to "Go Green" when it comes to office cleaning products.

This week, Corporate Essentials became the first Office Refreshment company to carry Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day (chemical-free) cleaning products.

Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day makes honest, hardworking cleaners that work like the dickens on dirt. With Mrs. Meyer's, keeping clean is easy. All you need is a sensible pair of shoes, a little elbow grease, and the right soap.

The Mrs. Meyer's product line features solutions to replace such everyday office cleaning items as Clorox Wipes, Fantastik spray, AJAX cleanser, Mr. Clean and more.

Something that you will perhaps find even more pleasing than the fact that all Mrs. Meyer's products are phosphate-free, is the wonderful scents that the products come in. Each product is available in three scents; lavender, geranium and lemon verbena.

Mrs. Meyer's has been recognized in many national publications such as In Style, Family Circle and Oprah Magazine.

Click here to see the entire line of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day products at MyDrinkCoffee.com.

Green Mountain Hot Cocoa K-Cups on the way...

We told you a few months back, but the day is almost here - you will finally be able to purchase Hot Chocolate K-Cups at MyDrinkCoffee.com. We expect to have these K-Cups available in approximately two weeks. Please check back often to check availability.

WSJ Article Spotlights Gourmet Office Coffee

The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article about companies upgrading their office coffee in hopes of keeping more employees from taking their coffee breaks at places like Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts.

The piece talked about more and more employers switching to single-serve coffee solutions like the Keurig B300 and the Starbucks interactive-cup brewer.

Here is a portion of the article, as published in the Baltimore Sun on Monday, March 26, 2007:

The coffee break refuses to die.

As more workers flee their cubicles to get a latte fix, the office coffee machine has become a forgotten stepchild. Of people who drink coffee at work, the percentage who drink the in-house brew dropped to 52 percent last year from 64 percent in 2003, according to the National Coffee Association, an industry group.

Now, in hopes of keeping their employees on the premises -- and sparing them the pain of a $4.95-a-day habit -- some companies are trying new measures. First and foremost: upgrading the java...

Click here to read the full article on the Baltimore Sun's website.

Even dogs love our Donut Shop Blend.

Corporate Essentials' very own Renee Kymack was kind enough to share some recent photos of her dog Drew enjoying one of her favorite treats - our Donut Shop Blend coffee.

Check out the pictures of Drew below, and if you try our Donut Shop Blend, and mention that you saw Drew here, we'll send you a coffee mug. Yes, the same coffee mug (the now semi-famous) Drew is drinking from in the pictures.

Thanks Renee for sharing these pictures with us.

Do you have any interesting photos featuring Corporate Essentials products? Share them with us, and if they show up in the Java Cafe, we'll send you a free gift. Simply email them to joes@drinkcoffee.com.

It's Official...Hot Cocoa K-Cups are coming.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters announced this week that, after years of waiting, a hot cocoa K-Cup will be available starting next month for use in all Keurig brewers.

Because this announcement has just been made by Green Mountain, we do not have full details as to things like price or exact date of arrival.

Green Mountain calls their new K-Cups, 'the perfect compliment to an office's coffee selection.' According to the news release, in a recent office survey, 90 percent of respondents expressed interest in the hot cocoa K-Cups after trying them.

Check back at www.drinkcoffee.com, www.mydrinkcoffee.com and The Java Cafe blog for more details on exactly when this new K-Cup will be available.

We expect to begin selling these at Corporate Essentials around the week of April 16th.

Sacrifices for the Cup

What would you give up for a cup-a-joe?

As reported by The Detroit News online, a recent survey by OnTech Operations, Inc. found what coffee drinkers are willing to sacrifice for a cup of brew. Their results show the following:

• 42% would trade in the morning paper, television, or radio for a cup of joe.
• 20% would swap lunch for coffee.
• 12% give up three hours of sleep for coffee.
• 10% would skip brushing their teeth for a cup

The survey also found that:

• 67% of Americans identify themselves as coffee drinkers.
• Nearly 50% half drink at least one cup every day.
• Men drink more cups per day than women.
• People in the Northeast consume more coffee than drinkers in any other region.
• 33% of of coffee drinkers consider themselves social drinkers, who use coffee breaks as a time to catch up with family and friends.
• Almost 25% like the hot drink because it warms their hands.
• 37% of coffee drinkers ages 18 to 24 drink the caffeine booster to help them accomplish tasks, presumably after a late night out on the town.

OnTech Operations Inc., a manufacturer of self-heating containers, surveyed 1,015 adults by telephone in January.

Happy Valentine's Day from Corporate Essentials

While we're not going to ask you to be our Valentine, we do have two sweet surprises for you today. We hope you'll enjoy the two video clips below; the first is a Valentine's Day greeting, and the second is a video montage of clips from The Office on NBC. Click here to send an email, and let us know what you thought. Have a great day.

Timothy's to introduce two new k-cup teas

Corporate Essentials will soon be carrying two new flavors in tea k-cups from Timothy's World Coffee. The two new flavors are Cranberry Twist Green Tea and Orange Indulgence White Tea, and both will be available in the coming weeks. Check www.DrinkCoffee.com for more information, or send us an email, and we'll let you know when their available.

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CoffeeReview.com rates Java Cafe Colombia Las Hermosas 92

Corporate Essentials' Java Cafe

Colombia Las Hermosas (Medium Roast)

Reviewed: February 2007

Overall Rating: 92 points

• Aroma: 8
• Acidity: 8
• Body: 8
• Flavor: 8
• Aftertaste: 8
• Roast (Agtron): Medium-Light (59/71)
• Origin: Southern Tolima Department, south-central Colombia

Notes: This coffee reflects an ongoing partnership between Reunion Island Coffee and the Las Hermosas Cooperative of small farms in southern Tolima Department of Colombia. In the last two years of the project partnership Reunion Island Coffee has donated funds to build drying beds and a cupping laboratory for the cooperative.

Blind Assessment: Sweet, delicate, floral-toned aroma with hints of lemon and a buttery chocolate. Reveals weight and power in the cup, with a rich acidity with continued floral, lemon and butter notes. Clean, rich finish.

Who should drink it: A classic breakfast cup, sweet but powerfully bright and rich.

To order Java Cafe Colombia Las Hermosas today, click here.

Spilling the Beans

Coffee. We sip it, slurp it, demand it, flavor it, all while debating its benefits. Drink in these health answers from the caffeine experts.

Have you heard the latest news about coffee? It can be hard to keep straight on whether coffee is A, good for you; B, not so good; or C, it depends on who’s drinking it; D, all of the above; or E, none of the above.

It’s enough to make you run out and order a double-shot espresso.

In the interest of coffee drinkers everywhere, here are the latest thoughts from leading researchers about coffee and whether it can enhance—or not—our health. We are “spilling the beans” on who should and shouldn’t be drinking coffee, especially if you suffer from certain conditions.

Click here for the full article.


About Corporate Essentials:

Corporate Essentials is Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and Westchester's premiere office coffee service. Stocking more than 1,200 products for your office pantry, including hot & cold beverages, paper products, cleaning supplies and health aids, Corporate Essentials is the only Office refreshment vendor you need.

Lipton Cup-a-Soup takes a look inside the office

Check out Lipton's new ads for Cup-a-Soup. Do any of these people work in your office? Tell us about it, anonymously in our Refreshment Zone.

The Busy Guy

Keurig unveils new B3000 for large offices

Check out Keurig's newest brewer for larger offices. Keurig builds on the features of the B2003, and releases their most advanced single-cup brewer to date. Click to view the B3000 product video below.




If you would like more information on the Keurig B3000, or any of our brewers, simply send us an email.

Email Bag: The world's most expensive coffee is from beans cycled through a monkey's digestive system.

Question: I heard something today on 1010 Wins that there is a type of coffee made from monkey "poop." Can this be true?

Answer: In short, the answer to this question is - yes (and no). TruthorFiction.com says, Kopi Luwak is a very expensive type of coffee made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of an Indonesian animal, but it's more like a cat than a monkey. According to a feature article by the Manila Coffee House, which sells the stuff, the people who harvest the digested beans don't really have to pick through cat litter to get it. The animal processes the beans and excretes them whole, unscratched, and without dung, for this reason, the idea that the coffee is made from "poop" is not totally accurate.

The animal is a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia. The scientific name is paradoxurus hermaphroditus.

According to the Manila Coffee House, the palm civet just happens to like to ingest the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which also happen to be the ones best for brewing. The cat eats the outer covering of the beans in the same way that is accomplished by de-pulping machines. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat's intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers.

Do you have a question that you'd like answered at The Java Cafe? Simply send us an email.

A Blast from the Past

I was doing some searching on YouTube.com the other day, and found something to people who might be looking for more info on Corporate Essentials (or maybe you just want a song to be stuck in their heads for the rest of the day). Check out Corporate Essentials old corporate video:



If you're in New York City, Northern New Jersey or Westchester, and would like to learn more about Corporate Essentials, click here to contact us.


About Corporate Essentials:

Corporate Essentials is Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and Westchester's premiere office coffee service. Stocking more than 1,200 products for your office pantry, including hot & cold beverages, paper products, cleaning supplies and health aids, Corporate Essentials is the only Office refreshment vendor you need.

MyDrinkCoffee.com, coming soon...

If you've been a customer of Corporate Essentials for any amount of time, you know that our goal is to always put our customers first.

Over the past few years, we have received a lot of feedback on our website (www.drinkcoffee.com); some of it positive, and some of it not-so positive.

We have been listening. And, on January 24th, Corporate Essentials will be launching a redesigned online ordering system, www.mydrinkcoffee.com. This improved ordering area will feature better searches, better descriptions, more pictures and improved functionality - all in all giving our web customers the type on internet experience they would expect from Corporate Essentials.

If you're in New York City, Northern New Jersey or Westchester, and would like to learn more about Corporate Essentials, click here to contact us.


About Corporate Essentials:

Corporate Essentials is Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and Westchester's premiere office coffee service. Stocking more than 1,200 products for your office pantry, including hot & cold beverages, paper products, cleaning supplies and health aids, Corporate Essentials is the only Office refreshment vendor you need.