Office Pantry Supplies

Paperwork related items like bond paper, ball pens, pencils, erasers, folder, staples and so on are getting less and less bought by companies as computers take over in the office. Food pantry supplies like water, coffee, tea, milk, sugar and if supplied cookies and crackers are always a constant. They boost company morale and productivity.

There are even companies that specialise in pantry or break room equipment and food supplies. It is a growing industry. If you are interested to know more just Google “office coffee service” to get additional information.

I have been to offices that only provide a thermos for hot water plus coffee, tea, sugar and milk to offices that have their own coffee machine, soda vending machine and so on. To have a soda vending machine in a 22 employee only office means that there is money to be made in office food pantry supplies.

In most offices the food supplies are usually bought by employees assigned to the task by the company. They are usually bought at the nearest food supplier within the vicinity of the company. It is usually supermarket bought food according to the tastes of whoever is buying it like the kind and brand of the food. This could be a problem when the employees do not like the food bought.

Different kinds of cookies and biscuits are usually bought from time to time to liven things a bit but from experience the delicious cookies gets eaten first leaving the bland cookies and biscuits to sit for a long time even to the point of them going stale.

Milk also runs out fast. There are employees who usually drink the milk by the cupful or the coffee or tea mixture they drink is almost consistently made up solely of milk. To make matters worse they drink these several times a day which necessitates buying milk almost everyday.

There are employees who drink coffee and tea nonstop and do not even bother to finish the present coffee or tea in their hand before getting another freshly made coffee or tea. Imagine the number of half finished coffee and tea drinks being thrown everyday.

There are even employees who bring home food supplies from the pantry even milk.

These small things can add up in cost to the company. A system that effectively rations the food supplies of a company can be a good cost saver especially if the company has hundreds and even thousands of employees. It is even worse if the pantry food supplies are treated by employees as their official source of daily breakfast and snacks.

Conclusion

Enterprising people who can successfully market to companies food dispensing machines and food packs that rations the food in the pantries without leaving the employees wanting stands not only to make money on the first equipment sale but stands to make more money from the repeat sales of rationed food packs.