Re: cheaper business choices We're working on reducing our budgets. The company has long provided Starbucks coffee in the break rooms. Early this year they emailed us with an email that amounted to "Good news! We're replacing the premium coffee with the store brand of our vendor! It gets better; for those of you who want other choices, we're putting in Keurig machines! And we're so green we're going to collect the cups for recycling. Yay environment!" Like, wow. Not much is more environmental than a small bag that makes a huge pot of coffee. The k-cups are an environmental disaster even if you recycle them. Just say it like it is: we can save $40,000 a year with the generic coffee. We aren't stupid. That's forty grand of raises or benefits or something that won't get cut. Just be straightforward. I actually don't mind the store brand coffee.