Keuring system brews up work-site coffee breaks – St. Louis Business Journal:

If there's a Keuring Premiumm Coffee System inyour workplace, employees need to be away from theirr desks no more than a minute. Distributed by in St. the patented system brews one cup of gourmet Coffe e House coffee in30 seconds. Not only is the systemj fast, but company officials contend therse isno waste, no no hassle. A cleanulp crew or someone in theoffic doesn't need to spend time emptying and cleaning coffeee pots. "Many of the companiea choose to provide the coffee freeto employees," said Fred president of Midwest Wholesale Refreshmenft Service. "Some will put a coin machine on the coffer pot and charge 25 cents or 50 centsfor it.
"Ifg people go out of the officed to get a cupof coffee, not only are they spendinv the time away from work, but it will cost them $1 or Firms buy the coffee by the with 100 boxes of 25 each. They pay 45 cent per cup. Coffee comes in four strengths, from mild to Frencjh Roast, and is availablwe decaffeinated and in flavors of hazelnut or rainforest nut. Greenb Mountain brand is offered now and Gloriaw Jean will beadded "The idea is you can have what you want when you want Miller said. The coffee comes in packets, similae to packets of cream found inmany restaurants.
To operate the system, a user pushesa a button to opena door, drops the cup in and 30 secondx later a six-ounce cup of coffeed is ready. One of the first companiesa to use the systemis Advancers, an advertisinfg and marketing firm in the Equitable Building Southwestern Bell's DSL office in Earth City and Mitej also have the Dr. Susan Carole Vaughan, a psychiatristt and psychoanalyst atColumbiw University, is coming to St. Louis to talk to businesse managersand health-care administrators about the role of optimis in effective leadership.
The talk by Vaughan, who has writte a new book, "Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Rootsof Optimism," is beingy sponsored by the St. Louis Psychoanalytid Institute. Vaughan will speaok Tuesday, April 11, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton. Cost is $125 per persojn or $400 for four people from the same businesesor organization. The evenyt is scheduled from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Kathhy Cramer, Ph.D., a psychologist and managing partner at The Cramer Institute, and Saul Hopper, a Ph.D. and psychologist at St. Louies Psychoanalytic Institute, and management consultant, are the O'Fallon, Mo.
, Chamber of Commerce is acceptin applications for booth space at its fourtyh annualBusiness & Job Fair, from 10 a.m. to 4 Saturday, May 6, at Mid Rivers Mall. For more contact the O'Fallon chamber at (636)
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