How much is bad quality coffee costing you as a business?

It is not the first time I have read articles like this one: High quality coffee at the office – Would you still go the Cafe?

Here it is summarized and applied to South Africa

Do your employees love their coffee fix? If so they normally are quire fussy about the fact that it has to be a good quality coffee and consistently good. But the coffee at work just does not make the grade.

So as a result what do they do? A few times a day they make the trip down to the cafe or local coffee spot to grab their favourite brew. An employee normally does not consider how valuable the time away from their schedule is. But as an employer this down time is costing you a fortune.

What if you could have consistently great coffee at your workplace without leaving the office. A fully automatic coffee machine using real fresh roasted quality coffee beans, ground to perfection with a high quality conical grinder will produce that perfect blend every time at the touch of a button. Not only are you saving time out of busy schedules but now have the convenience of grabbing a great coffee right at your workplace.

Having a fully automatic real bean to cup coffee machine in the office also looks very healthy on the bottom line.
Lets have a look at some calculations. How much would it cost an employer with say 30 staff over the space of a year to pay for time away from the desk for Coffee.

• Number of Employees – 30
• Coffee Breaks per day – 2
• Average Coffee Break time – 10 minutes
• Average hourly rate – R50.00
This calculates out at a cost to the employer of R2,500.00 per week and R130,000 per year. That’s an expensive coffee break!