Coffee Vending/Services in Delaware (homes, schools, live)

[chychy]

Hello all,

Are there any offices, hospitals, group homes, schools, etc that STILL lack coffee services?
If you personally know one, please feel free to add - as I am looking into the Coffee Services Business.


Thanks in advance.

[Mary2014]

Originally Posted by chychy

Hello all,

Are there any offices, hospitals, group homes, schools, etc that STILL lack coffee services?
If you personally know one, please feel free to add - as I am looking into the Coffee Services Business.


Thanks in advance.

I don't know about DE, but, in PA where I used to work, all the places I visited that used to have a pot of coffee available to their employees or to their customers have replaced them with K cup machines and K cups available so you can brew one cup of coffee. I image the larger places like schools, hospitals etc. that might still use the older style coffee services probably have to put out a contract for bids and go through a lengthy process to establish an approved new vendor.

My former employer used a company to deliver bottled water and coffee services. They still use the company to deliver bottled water. The coffee services they use occasionally- but, the K cup machines have taken over throughout the buildings. The K cups can be bought on line and delivered via UPS. There is no longer a need for a coffee services company to stop by every other week to refill the coffee supplies.

The invention of the K cup has really changed the coffee services business.

[EnjoyEveryDay]

Where I last worked they replaced the "coffee pot" method (it was a heavy duty Bunn machine with separate pots for Regular and Decaf) with a "push button" machine that dispensed one cup of coffee (or hot chocolate, or espresso) with the push of a button. This system was much better because, as with K-cups, each cup was brewed separately without an entire pot of coffee warming/getting stale during the day. This system (originally a Douwe Egberts, then replaced by another service) uses a refrigerated coffee concentrate that is mixed with extremely hot water for each serving. I see them at airports, some convenience stores, turnpike rest stops, and other places now. They are much less expensive per cup than the K-cups so I am certain that is why some companies are adopting them.