Office/Work Kitchen

Avenged7Fold

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Disclaimer: Unfortunately this is not a office food dispute thread, apologies GD!

I was speaking to a new person who moved to the office next door and they commented on how wonderfully stocked the shared kitchen office is considering our size (25-30 people in head office + 10 from rented offices) and that it was very generous that it was all free for building employees. I found this pretty odd as i just thought it was pretty standard stuff. She told me that her old office had vending machines for hot/cold drinks but people had to bring in their own tea and coffee (and hide it in their desk) if they didn't wish to pay these silly prices. She worked for a telemarketing company of similar size i believe.



Now i cant imagine they save too much on tea and coffee. I know if i don't get my regular cups of coffee i lose my work rhythm on the slower days and god knows the needless friction and time wasted on coffee/tea disputes between people that is born from such a policy.

Not having a kettle at the office for me would be worker abuse on the same level as refusing to put the heating on in November :p

Thoughts GD?

For those wondering what is usually in my office kitchen:

-Coffee caf/decaf
-variety of herbal and black teas
-cuppa soup (only tomato, dont know why)
-Beer /wine (for friday afternoon drinks)
-Cake provided by staff(80% female office, most of whom bake)

I once visited Compass Group HQ and they had an amazing catering but i suppose that is normal if you are the market leader in catering :p
 
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I've worked at nearly a dozen different places and only one had a kitchen with free real coffee, cereals, fruit, milk etc.
Where I am now we get free tea bags (only PG tips), instant coffee and milk. This is only the second place, after the one above, to provide free milk.

Only one place had free vending machines for hot drinks and soup. Was OK if desperate.
 
We have tea/coffee, huge selection of soft drinks, snacks, fruit etc and our lunches paid for every day.
 
we get tea/coffee, breakfast stuff (cereals, eggs, croissants), yoghurt's. the vending coffee machine is also free - good for the odd hot chocolate/bean coffee.
then beer/soft drinks/pizza on friday

we have it pretty good tbh :D
i'd hate to work for somewhere that dont provide the basic tea/coffee/milk at the least! I certainly judge the clients we have on there coffee/tea facility and its no surprise there's a correlation between rubbish coffeee / rubbish client :)
 
£10 per month which gets you unlimited nescafe muck or teabags that take half hour to brew and access to social functions usually subsidised quite well.

Food is vending machines unless you bring your own, there is a canteen but I haven't eaten in it for 4 years due to the quality being so poor.
 
Bit tight for an employer not to provide tea and coffee tbh...

My previous place had plenty of snacks etc.. too - crisps, cans of fizzy drinks, cheese selections, fresh fruit etc..

amusingly some self employed sandwich man asked the office manager if he could turn up to sell lunches, he'd set up a small stall trying to sell cans of coke and packs of crips along side sandwiches until someone pointed out he was wasting his time as they're freely available in all the kitchens.
 
FTSE 100 MULTI billion pound company here.

Sweet FA. We get a microwave that's broken, a couple of fridges that they found by the side of the road and a 1970 era toaster.

No even water dispensers! Oh well shareholders will be happy at least.
 
Free tea and coffee, fruit and a few snacks is the barest minimum of what should be provided. If people take advantage then treat them like an adult rather than going down a collective punishment route.

Not providing staff with refreshments is a bit short sighted from a bean-counting perspective before you even get into the impact on retention.
 
We have a £1 per week tea/coffee fund for our dept that a few other people from another dept also pay into to use our stuff. It pays for teabags, coffee, some latte sachets, milk and sometimes cakes/biscuits on a Friday. I think a couple of other depts in our office do the same, other people just bring their own.

The organisation provides a couple of fridges in the canteen, a hot water dispenser and two microwaves. There was an empty vending machine there when I started two years ago, apparently they weren't able to agree on a supplier for it or something so it was removed.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
-Bear/wine (for friday afternoon drinks)
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We have hot beverage machines and a fob which gives us 2 free drinks each per day, after that it's 20p per drink. The canteen is well stocked but charged at normal rates.
I've found key fobs left in the machine by forgetful people and now have 4, including my own. That's up to 8 hot drinks per day, including hot chocolate and choccomocca, completely free, saving me tens of pence per day.

Living the dream :)
 
Client offices - oil major
Free tea/coffee sachet machine (reasonable quality)
Kitchens with access to kettle/toaster/micro
Free fruit
Subsidised Starbucks
Subsidised 3 course lunch / made to order soup/sandwich

Can't complain.

Worst places I've been have always at least supplied tea bags and Nescafe.
 
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