FLAVIA refreshes employees with Workplace Insights research 0 comments
Motivated employees are key to a successful business, especially in the current economic climate. Research carried out by FLAVIA highlights the need to maintain core benefits to keep employee morale high and at the peak of their abilities.
FLAVIA conducted a survey of over 600 employees in Great Britain as part of its research into what employees and decision-makers feel are important factors in their workplace. In response to questions about benefits, 81% believed tea and coffee to be a standard provision in the workplace, rather than an optional perk.
Dr. Rob Yeung, chartered psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society comments:
“People need to take breaks to remain productive. The average person’s attention span is only 20 minutes, so it is counterproductive to sit in front of a computer or stare at the same document for hours on end. If you’re looking for creative ideas or inspiration, the best advice is to take a break and stopping for a refreshing drink is a great solution.”
Dr. Rob Yeung continues, “employee motivation gurus argue that people must have their basic needs met before they can think about ‘higher’ needs such as those that impact their effectiveness at work. People can’t be productive and creative if they’re feeling hungry or thirsty. Companies that offer their employees a comfortable working environment and good quality services, such as on-site drinks and catering, are really helping their teams to be productive in their working day.”
Additional research commissioned by FLAVIA shows that 43% of employees say hot beverages specifically have a positive impact on their productivity, with 39% saying hot beverages help them to concentrate.Motivation also impacts facilities decision makers, including HR managers.
Demanding roles, where internal customer satisfaction is top priority means having efficient, reliable and good quality resources is essential. In terms of drinks provision, further research commissioned by FLAVIA shows that 76% of decision makers believe there is a positive impact on morale based on the choice of coffee systems.
“Quality, choice, convenience and reliability are all key decision making factors when looking to purchase workplace resources,” explains Justyna Ciepka, global marketing director at FLAVIA.
“Through this type of investment, employees benefit from quality refreshments whenever they need them while at work and employers show they care about their workforce.
”Investment in workplace resources, such as coffee machines, allows companies to continue to motivate and invest in their employees in a cost-effective way during a difficult year for business.
Organisations throughout Great Britain continue to focus on the well-being of their employees and for more than forty years they have been assisted in doing so by UK Vending Ltd (UKV).
UK Vending is Britain's oldest and longest serving vending supplier. A UK Platinum Distributor, for nearly 28 years UK Vending has been uniquely supplying Flavia coffee machine & KLIX drinks machine brands from Mars Drinks.
The most prestigious organisations in Britain rely on UK Vending to serve their staff and customers hot drinks, chilled water and all other kinds of vended services keeping their staff at the peak of their performance.
UK Vending has customers who have stayed loyal for over 40 years proving that you can trust this family business for expertise and customer service and remarkable prices.
BEAN TO CUP COFFEE MACHINES; THERE BETTER CHOICE 0 comments
BEAN TO CUP COFFEE MACHINES; THERE BETTER CHOICE
If you speak to any self-confessed “coffee connoisseur” they will exclaim the virtues of bean to cup coffee machines to produce true barista style, coffee shop quality hot drinks. Many businesses will install a bean to cup coffee machine into their offices, believing they enhance the corporate image. However this is a fallacy! Find out the reality of bean to cup coffee.
1 – “Bean to Cup produces the freshest quality coffee”
Reality - Coffee beans begin to go stale after just 3 days! Therefore if you fill up your bean hopper on Monday morning and don’t drink it all before Wednesday, your coffee will lose its freshness and subsequent drinks will taste bitter. Coffee beans themselves can also vary in quality reducing the consistency of the taste of coffee produced.
2 – “Bean to Cup is the only way to get an authentic espresso and coffee shop style specialty drinks.”
Reality – True espresso needs to have water passed through the ground coffee at 9 bar pressure – this is what creates the crema. Most bean to cup coffee machines do not use 9 bar pressure, instead the water is drip fed through the coffee in much the same way a filter coffee machine does.
Most bean to cup machines are only able to use 2 types of beans max; therefore not offering a complete range to cover individual taste preferences. Even though they may use fresh milk to make Cappuccinos and other specialty drinks most don’t offer Tea and Chocolate
3 – “Bean to Cup Coffee Machines are a stylish and cost effective addition to our office?”
Bean to cup machines are noisy due to many of moving parts inside including bean hopper, grinder, brewer etc. The more moving parts a machine has the more chance there is of something going wrong. The average bean to cup machine breaks down 4 times a year. This unreliability increases the cost of service cover per machine and leaves your staff without drinks.
The number of service calls has a direct relationship to the overall maintenance of the machine. The moving parts within a bean to cup machine all require a weekly deep clean to remove the buildup of coffee grounds and residue. A leased machine should have the deep clean treatment incorporated into the rental costs as general maintenance. If not this cost is usually recouped through a lack of quality service and subsequent machine failures and service callouts.
Why not check your machine? Run a rinse cycle and the water should come out crystal clear! If not that water is going into your drinks!
Of course there will always be those who wish to have a bean to cup machine despite the realities and practicalities. However it is now possible to get the range and quality of coffee shop drinks, using freshly ground ingredients, from the Flavia Creation coffee machine designed for commercial environments.
Before investing in a coffee machine for your office, it’s worthwhile to have demonstration and even taste the great tasting drinks from the Flavia machine, find out how they compare to bean to cup?
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Flavia Drinks Herbal Bundle 0 comments
Herbal drinks from the Bright Tea Co for you Flavia drinks machine.