{"id":780,"date":"2007-03-28T06:46:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T11:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/coffee-snobbery\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T06:46:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T11:46:32","slug":"coffee-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/coffee-snobbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CareerJournal.com comes an important article revealing a new trend – Gourmet Coffee Becomes An Unwelcome Office Perk<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Of people who drink coffee at work, the percentage that drink the in-house brew dropped to 52% last year from 64% in 2003<\/strong>, according to the National Coffee Association, an industry group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I love that they have surveys for coffee consumption at the office. Is there any topic that isn’t subject to a survey? Nonetheless, I take my coffee seriously and am heartened by this new trend:<\/p>\n
Many employers are also investing in single-serve machines that make everything from coffee and specialty espresso drinks to hot chocolate and allow employees to brew one fresh cup at a time…”It’s made coffee a topic of conversation,” says John Montgomery, a group program manager on the company’s Redmond, Wash., campus — especially among the “coffee snobs<\/em>,” or those who attend coffee tastings. “I learned a huge amount about coffee.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Rock Star will tell you I am a coffee snob and proud of it. He, however, is not a coffee snob. I once saw him reheat day-old Folgers in the microwave and enjoy it! I leave you with an excellent quote from an uber-coffee snob (of course he works in the sales dept.):<\/p>\n
“I prefer to go to the Starbucks for the bourgeois snobbery,” says Michael Corbett, a sales assistant at New York-based Modern Publishing, a division of Unisystems Inc., who visits the coffee shop down the block from his office regularly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From CareerJournal.com comes an important article revealing a new trend – Gourmet Coffee Becomes An Unwelcome Office Perk: Of people who drink coffee at work, the percentage that drink the in-house brew dropped to 52% last year from 64% in 2003, according to the National Coffee Association, an industry group. I love that they have surveys for coffee consumption at the office. Is there any topic that isn’t subject to a survey? Nonetheless, I take my coffee seriously and am heartened by this new trend: Many employers are also investing in single-serve machines that make everything from coffee and specialty espresso drinks to hot chocolate and allow employees to brew… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-cA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}