My employer provides free coffee, tea and hot chocolate. We have about 2 dozen different coffee ‘pods’ to choose from and the machine brews each cup individually. They also provide skim milk, whole milk and light cream. About once a month coffee cakes magically appear in the break room, from the same company that maintain the coffee supply. On Fridays we also get bagels and a variety of cream cheeses delivered.
Seeing it written out makes me realize how uncharacteristically generous it is of my employer to do it. I wonder when they will figure out they are spending money on us peons and cut it, just like most of the other perks.
We have NO COFFEE and it’s a long trek to the nearest place to get it. We have a new senior staff member who set up a drip coffee maker in her office and brews a pot every day, but so far she hasn’t offered to share. I bring mine in a tumbler from home, as do most of my coworkers. I can’t even imagine how awesome it would be to have fresh coffee available right there in the office. Wow.
Our real estate office is small. Depending on who shows up in the morning, it can be from 2 to 7 people max, and not all drink coffee. I sometimes bring in a thermos of coffee made at home and share it with anyone who wants it. Otherwise, it’s simpler just to stop by Mickey D’s on the way in and get a coffa cuppee for myself. Their Java isn’t half bad.
There are no coffee machines in the breakrooms of the large health insurance company I work for, of any type. And they are actually forbidden in breakrooms by company policy. (No one seems to know why). Employees are free to bring coffee in, make instant with the boiling water tap that we have along with the vending machines, microwaves, ice machine, and chilled water, or buy coffee in the building cafeteria, but personal or break room machines of any type - even vending machines - are absolutely not allowed. There’s a Quik Trip within very short walking distance and a Starbucks only a few minutes away, and this is what folks do after the cafeteria closes at 2pm.
You’d think this would be a deal-breaker for a lot of folks, but it doesn’t seem to be. No one fusses over it at all, surprisingly - and this is largely nurses, who LIVE on coffee.
My workplace (when I go there. These days I mostly work from home) has the old-school vending machine as mentioned upthread, and a Keurig one-cup cofee maker (you can buy the little plastic whatsits that go inside the Keurig from another vending machine).
I generally just go to Dunkin’ Donuts for my morning jumpstart, or in a pinch, Starbucks. At home, I have a honking, giant 12-cup maker, but usually just use the 5-cupper.
Our break area has coffee, but it isn’t very good. It’s not awful, but bad enough that bough a Keurig machine for my cubicle.
Keurig machine with a full selection of coffees, teas, hot chocolate, lemonade, etc. Plus assorted Tazo tea bags, a tea pot, and a milk frother. Two types of milk, honey, assorted creamers, sugar and suger substitutes, and lemon juice are provided.
I’ve got it three ways.
There’s a cafe downstairs where you can buy a cup, there’s a free drip machine in the communal break room in the middle of the floor, and our department has our own little breakroom/cubicle area dealio where the boss put in a Keurig for us. And he even buys the coffee every once in a while.
Cubicle squatter here. We have a drip coffee maker, with three pots: decaf, regular and strong. We use the pre-measured Maxwell House filters, and the strong pot is for those who use two filters at a time. The office also provides sugar, creamer and hot chocolate.
I prefer to bring my own coffee when I can. BeanFruit Coffee and a french press is the best way to start the day, IMHO.
There is coffee in our break room, but as I don’t drink coffee I don’t know if it’s free or not. Don’t care. I know only that when somebody makes one of those specialty flavored coffees it makes me sick. Regular coffee smells pretty good if it’s not too strong.
I answered pot/urn, but technically there are free fresh-grind espresso machines.
(Kiwis have become very serious about their coffee). 
We used to have coffee makers in break areas until there were a couple of fires caused by brewers being left on overnight.
Now, we have either vending machines in break areas offering scalding hot brown liquid, or the cafeterias and coffee shops on the lower level.
My large office tries to discourage coffee. We are allowed to have coffee makers only in the common area and there are only 3 outlets there (for maybe 50 people.) The only alternative is to buy Starbucks style coffee downstairs at $2 a pop. So I make a pot of coffee in the common area in the morning, hope to get a couple of cups in me before the thieves finish it then I unplug and let it get cold. I don’t lose more than a cup a day to thieves anymore since I’ve caught a couple. “Oh, I thought this was for everybody.”
I provide a grinder, beans, water, pot, etc for my employees. Seems the least I can do, plus I love coffee.
I just put up a thread about washing mugs(weird timing)!
Nothing. There is a break room, but anything provided (usually fruit, cupcakes, cookies) are donated by the workers and volunteers. We are a non-profit, so management provides a microwave and paper towels. That’s about it. Most of us heat water in the microwave and bring cups and tea from home, or heat up coffee that we made at home.
There is a small Keuring maker in the break room but it’s off-limits to ordinary employees. Only the directors can use it, and they bring their own coffee thingies and keep them in their desks.
We’re all so used to it, it really doesn’t matter to us.
None of the choices are appropriate for me. We have free coffee but not in a pot or urn. We have one of those machines (Keurig, I think) that takes the premeasured disposable containers, heats the water, and dispenses one cup fresh.
I don’t do coffee, but there were coffee makers and all the supplies in several of the break rooms of my former place of employment. You either paid by the cup or paid the yearly dues (I think it was around $50, but I’m not sure.)
One of the great things about my job. We have free coffee all day and have free espresso till 1:30 PM.
Every office I have been to in Sweden has had a free coffee machine. Having to pay for coffee at work is utterly alien to me.
Where I currently work it does various things like hot chocolate too. It isn’t in a break area, it is just off to the side buy the water tap (two, one still and one sparkling). Therefore as it isn’t in a “a cafe/cafeteria” or “in a pot/urn in the break area” I’m one of those magic people not covered by your choice.
Hint: Always offer an “Other, please specify” in polls. There will always be someone that doesn’t fit, even if you think you’ve covered everything.
<shudder> pay-as-you-go coffee vending machine – I’ve never gotten a decent cup of coffee from these.
We have a commercial drip pot with two warming plates. Everyone that drinks coffee contributes $2 a month to the coffee fund.