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Gourmet Coffee The Best Places to Buy it in NJ and NYC

Gourmet Coffee: The Best Places to Buy it in NJ and NYC

There are those who enjoy a cup of coffee on Saturday morning. Those who think of coffee as a nice social beverage to linger over during a workday break. And then there are the rest of us, the caffeine fiends who make it our mission to seek out the highlights of the gourmet coffee experience wherever we go. Looking for shops that pull the best ristretto shots; hunting for beans that produce the best crema from our home espresso machines; and seeking the most refreshing cold-brew processes. But how do we know we are really getting the best coffee? The trouble with that question is that your individual palate has a lot to do with which coffees are “best” to you – but as seasoned coffee gurus, we are happy to offer this list of important factors in what makes gourmet coffee great. Fresh is best There is absolutely no

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Corporate Essentials to Offer Keurig® Compatible* RealCups™ Starting in 2015

OFFICE COFFEE SERVICE LEADER CHOOSES REALCUP™ BRAND SINGLE-SERVE SOLUTION FOR QUALITY, CHOICE AND INNOVATION Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee Inc. announces partnership with Corporate Essentials and Shoffee.com for RealCup™ brand in New York and New Jersey MISSISSAUGA, ON, December 15, 2014 – The RealCup™ brand solution for single-serve coffee and tea has a powerful new partner in office towers, tech companies and high-growth employee-focused offices throughout New York and New Jersey. Corporate Essentials, drinkcoffee.com, is a leader in the Office Coffee Service industry with more than 1,500 office clients, reaching more than 150,000 employees each day with beverage products, healthy snacks, fresh fruit and dairy products and services, including the highest grade coffee and tea. Beginning in January, Corporate Essentials will be expanding its offering to include more than 60 different products from the RealCup™ portfolio. This includes Martinson® coffees, cocoas and cappuccinos, Tim Hortons® coffee, Marley Coffee®, Higgins &

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How Much Do Office Coffee Machines Cost?

How Much Do Office Coffee Machines Cost?

Great office coffee starts with high-quality office coffee machines – but words like “high quality” have cost implications, and when you are trying to pitch a great office coffee service to your boss, it is often the price that matters most. Being able to provide a little information that justifies the cost of equipment is a vital string in your bow when it comes to these meetings. So today, the experts at Corporate Essentials have come together to give you a crash course in all the factors that contribute to the true cost of your office coffee machines. Type of Coffee Machine The number one thing to consider when you are evaluating the cost of office coffee machines is the type of equipment your office requires. Some coffee machines, like the La Marzocco Strada MP, are highly specialized and designed to provide a single, dedicated function to a particular faction

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4 Reasons to Drink Locally Roasted NJ Coffee

4 Reasons to Drink Locally Roasted NJ Coffee

One of the more seldom discussed side effects of developing a great office coffee culture is the thirst for more – more flavor, more variety and more opportunities to get caffeinated. This thirst has fueled a real boom in the artisan coffee industry, bringing more and more small, independent coffee shops into the cities. And with these independent coffee shops come a collection of brilliant ideas, contacts at different estates and different techniques. Locally roasted coffee offers “more” to your favorite coffee drinkers in so many ways we have highlighted four of our favorite perks to choosing locally roasted coffee for your break room. A matter of freshness When it comes to choosing coffee, any expert will tell you that the fresher your beans are the better your brew will be. Finding a great source of locally roasted coffee is one of the best ways to guarantee your coffee is

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Corporate Essentials’ Java Cafe Coffee Roaster Named 2015 Roaster of the Year

What is the first thing you usually think when a coffee company recommends their “private label coffee?” Maybe that by switching to the company’s house brand, you’ll be able to save a few bucks on your office coffee delivery, or you simply think of the image of a gold or silver bag, containing sub-par coffee, and the company’s name stamped in black letters on the outside. In my mind, it is truly a mystery as to why a company would go out and source the cheapest coffee possible, and sell it as their own.   At Corporate Essentials, our Java Cafe Brand is more than just another private label coffee. Our Java Cafe is the highest quality coffee available for delivery to offices in NYC, Manhattan, NJ and Brooklyn. As a further testament to the quality of our Java Cafe Coffee, Reunion Island Coffee Roasters, who roasts all of our

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The Perfect Energy Drink? Introducing Guayaki Organic Sparkling Yerba Mate

If we told you that there was a naturally caffeinated beverage made from a tree with leaves which naturally contain 24 vitamins and minerals, 15 amino acids as well as an abundance of antioxidants; and also had the “strength of coffee, the health benefits of tea and the euphoria of chocolate,” while not producing the crash associated with most popular energy drinks – we think you’d be intrigued. And if we told you that this beverage was available for delivery to your NYC, Manhattan, NJ and Brooklyn office, right now, we think you’d give it a try. That’s why Corporate Essentials is now offering three varieties of Guayaki Sparkling Yerba Mate (yer-bah mah-tay). And while Yerba Mate is not new, in fact in 1964 The Pasteur Institute and the Paris Scientific society concluded “it is difficult to find a plant in any area of the world equal to mate in

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Why Our World Would End if Office Coffee Distributors in NYC Disappeared

Why Our World Would End if Office Coffee Distributors in NYC Disappeared

Imagine a world without office coffee distributors. In NYC, the coffee distribution game is serious business. While we are told time and again that the city never sleeps, the reality is that our businesses rely on that hot black nectar to keep everyone humming along in the seemingly effortless circles that make the world turn. Without office coffee distributors, there’d be no office coffee. Without office coffee, we’d be on the fast track to a cold gloomy apocalypse where there is little to do but hide under a desk and hope Daryl Dixon comes out of the shadows with a crossbow to save you. If you think we are exaggerating, consider some of the benefits office coffee distributors in NYC provide to your workplace that would vanish in a world without office coffee services. No more easy-to-use coffee machines on site We all know the great office coffee distributors are

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Rising Coffee Prices: How Do They Affect My Office Coffee Delivery in NYC, Manhattan, New Jersey and Brooklyn?

Increased worldwide demand for quality coffee; a historic drought in Brazil; a fungus that targets and kills Arabica coffee trees known simply as coffee rust – these are all factors trying to get in the way of you being able to enjoy your morning cup of coffee. The rising price of Arabica coffee can already be seen in coffee sold in grocery stores, and your favorite Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts, and is now being felt in offices across the country. In the last 12 months, coffee prices have increased by more than 58% due mostly to the fact that a drought in Brazil has dried up much of this year’s harvest of Arabica beans. As it currently stands, the price of green coffee is at it’s highest price in 2½ years. Even the United States’ leader in single-cup coffee, Keurig® Green Mountain has raised their price on their popular Keurig®

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What’s Brewing: MUD Coffee Chooses Corporate Essentials as Exclusive Office Coffee Delivery Partner

Since they started selling coffee to New York City from their first MUDTRUCK in 2001, MUD Coffee has established itself as the city’s “everyman” coffee; and now Corporate Essentials is excited to be MUD Coffee’s exclusive office coffee partner. According to their Wikipedia page, MUD Coffee is an East Village, New York City-based coffee company that started by selling its own blend out of a converted Consolidated Edison step-van known as the MUDTRUCK. It can usually be found on weekdays parked by the Astor Place. MUD Coffee has been voted best cup of coffee in New York by Time Out New York, Village Voice and, most recently by Rachael Ray. Recently, MUD has pulled their trucks off the streets for maintenance, leaving thousands of New Yorkers searching for their favorite coffee at work. Corporate Essentials will be offering all three varieties of MUD Coffee in in five-pound bags of whole bean coffee,

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4 Types of Office Coffee Service Companies in NJ and NYC

The days are darker, the nights are colder and there has never been a time when your office needed to finish reviewing all the potential office coffee service companies you were considering as suppliers becomes more urgent. If you are struggling to narrow the field and are not sure why, it could be because your coffee service suitors have fallen into one of the stereotypical personality pitfalls that plague the coffee service industry. But fear not, with close to two decades of experience on your side, the experts at Corporate Essentials are going to help you wade through the world of office coffee service personalities to help you find your perfect match. There are plenty of fish in the sea, after all. Exquisite Coffee Connoisseurs The rep from Exquisite Coffee Connoisseurs probably has the most gorgeous business cards you have ever seen. They will be printed on extra thick, black matte

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How To Get Your CEO to Approve An Office Coffee Service in N

How To Get Your CEO to Approve An Office Coffee Service in NJ

You are the one they come to with their demands for office coffee. You are the one they turned to when it was time to find an office coffee service for your New Jersey business. You looked at the field of competing office coffee services – NJ is rife with them, and whittling down the list to one champion was no small task – but you persevered. Now you are into the home stretch of project office coffee, and as with so many things it is the last hurdle that seems hardest to clear. It is time to convince the CEO that providing an office coffee service for your firm is the best solution on earth. No pressure, right? Relax. The experts at Corporate Essentials have been here before, and we are ready to help you make your case with this four-point approach – we don’t even mind if you

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8 Signs You Should Use Coffee Distributors in NJ

In a world where so much is focused on the differences between us, it is wonderful to consider things that bring us together – and coffee is definitely a unifying agent. Whether you have been looking around your New Jersey office and noticed a dull look on faces where eyes used to sparkle, are trying to find a way to help people concentrate on the tasks they need to complete, want to help staff save money, wish you could maximize the spaces in your office for the common good or just think it would be nice to find a way to invest that general budget surplus back into the staff, a single word holds the answer: coffee. Today, we are channeling two decades of experience as coffee distributors in New Jersey into helping you find the “coffee” answer to your common office problems. Everyone suffers from the afternoon slump There’s

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