Employee Satisfaction

• Employees greatly appreciate the fresh, coffee house quality of K-Cups
• Employees choose their favorite style and flavor of coffee versus accepting the “one size fits all” office brew
• K-Cups are extremely convenient for employees, including for tea and hot chocolate drinkers, brewing in under 1 minute
• K-Cups eliminate stale and/or cold coffee
• K-Cups eliminate the mess of ground coffee, and anyone having to clean pots
• K-Cups are more hygienic than coffee brewed in glass or thermal pots
• K-Cups eliminate conflicts regarding how coffee is brewed as everyone gets what they want
• Happy employees equal productive and loyal employees

Financial Benefits

• K-Cups save time and money as no clean up or prep required
• K-Cups eliminate wasted coffee, water and energy. Typically 25%-35% of all brewed coffee is discarded due to burned taste (glass pots), cooling, leftovers being discarded at day end, employees tossing existing pots to brew them differently.
• K-Cups eliminate water usage and cleaning supplies for cleaning pots
• K-Cups reduce additional energy usage for powering warming burners
• K-Cups eliminate broken glass pots and clogged airpots
• K-Cups eliminate equipment and free up counter space as no need to brew multiple pots (regular, decaf, other)
• K-Cups reduce coffee pilferage as fewer people have K-Cup brewers at home
• K-Cups improve productivity as employees spend less time in coffee klatches, waiting for pots to brew
• K-Cups improve productivity as employees less likely to leave the office to purchase a cup of coffee
• K-Cups cost the company less, per serving, than brewed coffee, when factoring in all considerations
• Company has option to charge employees per K-Cup, recovering a portion of the costs for premium coffee
• Employees that feel valued and appreciated by being served premium coffee have higher energy and motivational levels

Environmental Considerations

• K-Cups eliminate the water waste of cleaning pots, the detergents used to clean the pots, and the energy needed to maintain warming burners
• K-Cups offer Fair Trade coffees that insure farmers are using more sustainable farming practices, promoting conservation, agricultural diversification, biodiversity, responsible use and handling of agrochemicals, proper disposal of both organic and hazardous waste, land management, soil fertility, and the avoidance of genetically modified organisms
• K-Cups offer organically grown coffees that are produced without synthetics pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers. In addition, organically grown coffee is typically grown under the shade of a forest canopy, protecting all the animal and plant species living in these environments, while slowing the pace of global warming
• Green Mountain, the developer of K-Cups, offers coffees to support environmentally focused partners like National Wildlife Federation and Tanzanian Gombe Reserve (Jane Goodall Institute to help protect chimpanzee habitat)