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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
New Survey of U.S. Employees Finds Small Perks in the Office Can Have a Big Impact on Feeling Motivated and Valued
“Employers can inexpensively offer simple perks in the office like flexible working hours, casual dress days or a celebration pizza that offers a significant perceived value to employees.”
- 37 percent of employees surveyed would prefer free, daily fresh gourmet coffee or tea over a company’s annual holiday party
- 50 percent of employees surveyed reported they are looking to cut back their spending on coffee and tea in 2010 (outside of the office)
- Surveyed Americans aged 18-34 report spending an estimated $440/year and over 38 hours/year on purchasing coffee and tea before, during and after the work day. Sixty percent said they would like to cut back their spending
Friday, February 05, 2010
Monday, December 08, 2008

Keurig Introduces New OfficePro Small-Office Brewer
Corporate Essentials is among the first office coffee services in New York City and Northern New Jersey to be able to offer Keurig's newest, commercial-grade brewer - the Keurig OfficePro.
The new Keurig OfficePro Small-Office Brewer is the perfect solution for offices of 15 employees or less, and unlike past Keurig Commercial-Grade Brewers, the Keurig OfficePro Brewer is available for purchase from Corporate Essentials (Fairfield, NJ).
Here's what Keurig says about the new OfficePro Brewer:
The OfficePro™ brewer is Keurig's new small office brewer. This brewer is perfect for offices of 15 or less, conference rooms, or the boardroom! It offers three brew sizes (6 0z, 8 oz, 10 oz), an internal tank that drains at the flip of a switch, an Auto-Off safety feature, removable driptray, and a removable water tank.
Here is what you need to know:
Features
- Brew Sizes: 6 oz, 8 oz, 10 oz*
- Drainable Internal Water Reservoir
- Travel Mug Friendly with
Removable Drip Tray - Removable Reservoir
- Auto Off Feature
- H X W X D, inches 13.5 x 8.5 x 11
- Weight: 14 lbs (empty)
- UL cULus Commercial
- Internal HW Tank: 24 oz
- External CW Tank: 48 oz
- Electrical: 1400W, 120V ac
- Voltage: 120VAC/60Hz
- Plug: 3-wire grounded
Still not sure if a Keurig Brewing System from Corporate Essentials is right for your office? Here is some info that might help:
Corporate Essentials is New York City and Northern New Jersey's premier office coffee service, serving the New York City Metropolitan Area for more than 12 years. Corporate Essentials offers more than 200 different varieties of Keurig K-Cup Coffee, Tea and Hot Cocoa from Green Mountain, Timothy's, Coffee People, Caribou Coffee, Gloria Jean's, Diedrich, Tully's, Bellaccino, Twinings, Bigelow, Celestial Seasonings and more.
Please contact Corporate Essentials today for more information on putting New York City's best coffee in your office.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Keurig, Inc, a subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., announced that its B3000 commercial single-cup brewer has received a Silver Excellence in Design Award from appliance DESIGN magazine.
Keurig’s B3000 (available for offices in NYC and NJ from Corporate Essentials) brewer was recognized in the commercial/vending appliances category of appliance DESIGN’s 21st Annual Excellence in Design competition. An independent panel of industrial design experts evaluated entries based on aesthetics, human factors, innovation, and technical merits. Award-winning products exhibited sophisticated technology, intuitive features, an eye-catching appearance, and a focus on consumer convenience.
The Keurig brewing system and proprietary K-Cup portion packs were first introduced in offices in 1998 and were highly successful due to the system’s speed, convenience, and gourmet-tasting coffee. The B3000 brewer is designed for large offices where back-to-back brewing by several people is the norm. The brewer makes a fresh cup of coffee in less than a minute and includes features such as direct line water plumbing, multiple brew sizes to vary brew strength, and automatic K-Cup ejection and storage. The brewer is also vending compatible.
“The B3000 brewer offers the most advanced single-cup brewing technology, and the design of the product garners raves from our distributors and customers,” said Dave Manly, vice president of marketing at Keurig, in a prepared statement. “We’ve succeeded in creating a bold, distinctive look for our brewers, while making it easy to brew gourmet coffee, tea or hot cocoa one cup at a time.”
Keurig leads single-cup brewing in both the home and office. With the Keurig single-cup brewing system, users can choose their favorite coffee, tea or hot cocoa packed in the patented K-Cup portion packs, brew a single cup at the touch of a button, and enjoy a gourmet cup with no mess or clean-up. Keurig provides a range of brewing solutions, available from over 450 office coffee distributors, for small, medium, and large offices. For the home, Keurig brewers and K-Cups are available at over 10,000 retail stores, including Target, Bloomingdale’s, Bed, Bath & Beyond, and online at shoffee.com.
About Corporate Essentials
Corporate Essentials is Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and Westchester's premier 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.
Monday, March 03, 2008
Managed Funds Main Driver of Coffee Prices

By CAROLYN CUI
from WSJ (March 1, 2008; Page B1)
Get ready to spend more for your morning pick-me-up.
Coffee prices are on the march, and the costs of the milk, sugar and even paper cups also are climbing. But whereas other commodities like copper or oil have been pushed up by demand from developing countries, coffee is a different case. Demand has only edged up, and much of the recent surge is due to speculators hopping into the commodity.
Oren's Daily Roast, a boutique coffee store in New York City, has charged $2.95 for a medium latte for the past two years. Now, owner Oren Bloostein is considering a price increase of perhaps 3% for a cup of coffee and up to 10% for the coffee beans it sells.
"It is very disconcerting," said Mr. Bloostein. But after an 11% increase in ingredients since the beginning of this year, Mr. Bloostein said, "I need to raise my prices so that I can remain in business."
The price pressures on a cup of joe began building last year. The price of the coffee itself rose 7.7% last year, while milk climbed 24%. Now, spurred by tight supplies of coffee beans and investors looking for the next commodity run-up, prices are boiling over. The price of green coffee beans has risen 22% since the beginning of the year in trading on ICE Futures U.S.
Click here to read the full article.
About Corporate Essentials
Corporate Essentials is Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and Westchester's premier 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.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Businesses buy espresso machines to cut break time
The below piece is from a recent article in The Sunday Telegraph from Sydney, Australia.
SYDNEY, Australia - The humble cappuccino has joined the cigarette and the Internet as the latest threat to workplace productivity.
Coffee runs have become the new smoko and businesses have become so fed up with workers leaving their desks in search of a caffeine fix that many are now paying for professional coffee machines to be installed on-site.
Shelling out $6000 for an espresso machine is worth it because it keeps employees in the building, keeps them motivated and cuts down on break time, employers argue.
Mitsubishi Sydney City, Hawkesbury Valley Holden, Babcock & Brown, global business and technology services company EDS and international shipping firm Maersk are among leading firms that have recently bought coffee machines for staff.
Adam Symon is the director at Bravo Repair Centre and maintains and fixes hundreds of machines each week.
"We've really noticed that, percentage-wise, the number of companies who are dealing with machines has tripled over the last six months," he said.
"A lot of money is being spent on these coffee machines. The more serious companies are even getting them plumbed into the water system."
Mr Symon estimates that in a standard office of 300 staff, workers were grinding their way through 15kg of coffee beans each week, enough to make around 1800 standard cups.
Click here to view 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.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution referenced Alfred H. Peet's familiar nickname, the 'grandfather of specialty coffee in a September 5, 2007 piece about his life - and he name was befitting of the man who revolutionized the way that we drink our morning coffee.

from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
'Alfred H. Peet, the son of a Dutch coffee merchant who pioneered a revolution in roasting exotic dark beans that led to America's love affair with high-end coffee, died Wednesday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 87.
The cause was cancer, several friends said. His death was announced Friday by a representative of the company he founded, Peet's Coffee and Tea Inc.
Peet, often called the "grandfather of specialty coffee," started his business in Berkeley, Calif., in 1966, with a single retail coffee bean outlet that blossomed into a public company with 150 stores in 10 states.
He is credited with mentoring and inspiring a generation of coffee entrepreneurs, including the founders of Starbucks.'
For more on the life of Alfred H. Peet, or to share your own memories of his life please visit Peet's Coffee & Tea's Blog, which has a great tribute to this great man.
The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Corporate Essentials are extended to the Peet family.
This past Friday (August 31, 2007), I read a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about "The Complex World of Coffee Research and the Quest for a Better Shot" by Jeff Grocott.
The article included an interesting breakdown on the cost of some very popular single-serve coffee and espresso when broken down by pound. I have included the per-pound breakdown below, or click here to view the full Wall Street Journal 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.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
You might remember that back in May and June Corporate Essentials ran a promotion to attract customers to our redesigned online ordering website - MyDrinkCoffee.com. Today we finally had the opportunity to present the winner of the Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook computer to Carin Young of Allied World Assurance Company, Inc. (AWAC), located in New York City.
Pictured below (from left to right) are winner Carin Young and Corporate Essentials' President, Judson Kleinman.

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.
During the early innings of last night's New York Mets game on SNY, I heard Keith Hernandez say that he was an alum of Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California. This led me to do some research on Capuchino High School to find out if a school with such an unusual name could have a fitting school nickname like the Battling Baristas or Fighting Frappachinos.
However, after consulting the wikipedia (one of my favorite inventions in recent history), I discovered that Capuchino High School's mascot was not coffee-themed in any way; but they are known as the Mustangs. Another notable graduate of Capuchino High School is actress Suzanne Sommers.
Well, thanks anyway Keith for giving me another chance to talk about the Mets at work.
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.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Corporate Essentials was recently named to Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest growing companies.
To learn more about Corporate Essentials being featured on the list, click here; to read Corporate Essential's official news release click here.
Timothy's coffee has just announced that they will soon be releasing an exclusive line of Emeril Lagasse's signature blend coffees.
The first two varieties in the line have been announced, and are Big Easy Bold and Jazzed Up Decaf (see images below). As many of Emeril's branded products do, the k-cups will be strongly influenced by the city of New Orleans.
Timothy's Emeril branded k-cups will be available in the coming weeks from Corporate Essentials and at drinkcoffee.com.

Monday, July 16, 2007
After a week of vacation (and a week away from the office Keurig Brewer), I was happy to arrive this morning and see some summertime, iced drink recipes for Keurig K-Cups setting on my desk. I was so excited, the first thing that I wanted to do was make sure that I shared them with everyone who visits the Corporate Essentials' Java Cafe. So without further adieu, here are two great summer (iced drink) recipes that can be made at your office Keurig brewer:
Iced Tea: Fill a 16-ounce mug or cup (even plastic) with ice. Brew your favorite tea K-Cup at 8 ounces, and you'll have a great 16-ounce tea in seconds!
Iced Carmel Latte: Pour 1.5 to 2 ounces of half-and-half into a cup, and swirl about 2 ounces of caramel syrup along the cup walls. Stir the caramel and half-and-half together, pack tightly with ice, and brew about 4 ounces on top (I used two separate cups to make it easier). Then you can top off with whipped cream, a bit more caramel and cinnamon (as you can see from the cell phone pic below, I went with the low-fat version and left off the whipped cream). The same recipe can be used to make a mocha latte by simply replacing the caramel syrup with chocolate.
In my personal opinion, the second recipe works best with any of our Extra Bold K-Cups from Timothy's or Green Mountain; but I strongly recommend trying it with Green Mountain's Kenyan AA Extra Bold or Timothy's Kona Blend k-cups (these are the two that I tried so far).
Do you have any summer drink recipes that your office enjoys? Send me an email about them, and we'll send you a free gift.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
While browsing the web last night, I came across a great posting from our friends over at curbly.com. They give us some interesting uses for your used coffee grounds. If you'd like to check out the original posting on curbly.com, click here.
Without further adieu, here are what curbly.com lists as the top 10 uses for used coffee grounds:
10. Deodorizer. Dry them out on a cookie sheet and then put them in a bowl in your refrigerator or freezer, or rub them on your hands to get rid of food prep smells.
9. Plant food. Plants such as rosebushes, azaleas, rhododendrons, evergreen and camellias that prefer acidic soils will appreciate the leftovers from your morning cup. Also, grounds can add nutrients to your compost bin.
8. Insect repellant. Sprinkle old grounds around places you don’t want ants, or on the ant piles themselves. The little buggers will move on or stay away. Used grounds are also said to repel snails and slugs.
7. Dye. By steeping grounds in hot water, you can make brown dye for fabric, paper and even Easter eggs.
6. Furniture scratch cover-up. Steep grounds and apply a bit of the liquid to furniture scratches with a Q-tip.
5. Cleaning product. As they’re slightly abrasive, grounds can be used as a scouring agent for greasy and grimy stain-resistant objects.
4. Kitty repellent. To keep kitty from using the garden as her personal powder room, sprinkle grounds mixed with orange peels around your plants.
3. Flea dip. Follow up Fido’s shampoo with a coffee ground rub down, working them down to his skin. Not only are the fleas suppose to vamoose, but puppy’s hair will feel soft too.
2. Dust inhibitor. Before you clean out the fireplace, toss wet coffee grounds over the ashes to keep the ash dust under control.
And, finally, the #1 use for used coffee grounds....drum roll here....
1. Cellulite reducer. Mix 1/4 cup warm, used coffee grounds and 1 tablespoon of olive oil. While standing over an old towel or newspaper, apply the mixture to your "problem areas". Next, wrap the areas with shrink wrap and leave on for several minutes. Unwind the wrap, brush loose grounds off your skin and then shower with warm water. For best results, it is recommended to repeat this procedure twice a week. A little weird to be sure, but as high priced cellulite creams have coffee in them, it just might work.
While myself (or anyone else at Corporate Essentials) can verify that we have tried all of the above uses for coffee grounds, we strongly urge you to give number nine (plant food) a try. To take that one even a step further - try using your used coffee grounds (or even single-cup pods) as compost for your garden. Because the material used to make the pod filters is 100% biodegradable, you can bury them in your garden just the way they are.
Do you have any other uses for coffee grounds? Let us know in an email, and we'll send you a Corporate Essentials t-shirt.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Corporate Essentials was featured in a recent article in New Jersey's Star-Ledger. The article, by Beth Fitzgerald, was part of the Sunday, June 24th Star-Ledger.
Focused on in this piece was Corporate Essentials' relationship with Newark's Gibbons Law Firm:
Gibbons: Starting with a cup of coffee
Attorney Cheryl Gorman has her first cup of coffee in the morning when she arrives at work. She is a director at Newark's Gibbons law firm, which provides its entire staff with fresh-brewed Starbucks, 24/7, for free.
"It really makes a difference," Gorman said. "We can be here 'til past midnight, and coffee helps pick me up."
There are coffee lounges on every floor, with marble counters and a high-tech machine that brews Starbucks by the cup. Legal secretary Allyson Deloatch explained why she likes this particular employee perk: "Let me tell you - I've experienced bad coffee."
By providing this amenity, the firm "is saying look, we value you and want you to be happy," attorney and director Bruce Levy said. "And when I want a cup of coffee, I can get one in five minutes instead of a half-hour to go out to Dunkin Donuts."
"Good, free coffee is one of the least expensive benefits you can provide your employees, and the workers get that benefit all day, every day," said Judson Kleinman, whose Fairfield (NJ) company Corporate Essentials supplies the coffee service for Gibbons. "People are really emotional about coffee, and it also helps them work. It gets their day started and keeps them focused on the task at hand."
Not that anyone ever took a job for coffee. But Patrick Dunican, managing director of Gibbons, said, "This, to me, is one of the most important things a 21st-century employer should be aware of and should be doing for their employees. The quality and availability of coffee is important to employee morale, and it has increased productivity."
Click here to view the Full Article at nj.com.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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.
Friday, April 13, 2007

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.