Spring is here (offically)! As her first rays of sunshine pierce the frozen ground below, Spring is sending us all into a tizzy of new outfits, new attitudes – and new coffee. Iced coffee.

Sometimes, you can just tell when an office is too dry. Not the kind of dry that’s solved with a humidifier. The kind of dry where employees lag. There’s no juice. There’s no rush to get things done. People move slow, brainstorming struggles to flow.. In other words, there’s not enough water in the office. People aren’t replenishing their systems. And the office isn’t functioning like a well-oiled machine. It’s functioning like a dry, rusted, squeaky machine, forcing itself along.

Last week, we jumped all over the globe to put together the trillions of pieces that make up our coffee culture today. Styles of drink, traditions behind specific ingredients – the how, the why and the way countries drink coffee; we traveled through time to gain a greater perspective on what exactly we’re consuming when we touch our lips to our mugs every morning.

Starbucks And Dunkin’ Deliver Coffee, But Not Coffee Service

If you’ve been hesitant to bring in a coffee delivery service for your office or store, now is the time to reconsider. Coffee delivery services are taking the world by storm. Recently, Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks have announced their plans to start delivering our can’t-live-without morning beverage, and they’re itching to launch these sizzling services asap.

Without coffee even the best office can turn into a crisis center, complete with employees dozing off at their desk, falling asleep in meetings with clients, and much worse. However, getting that revitalizing cup of joe isn’t always simple. Many companies with 10+ employees have a office coffee delivery service, which brings the coffee, machines, and coffee fixings directly to your cubicle. If you have a good office coffee service provider, they will even maintain and clean your coffee machines as a part of the deal.

If you are still not sure you need an office coffee service, read the pros and cons of each coffee delivery system before

It’s obvious that something is going on when we ingest coffee. Our insides seem to speed up. Our outsides struggle to catch up. Caffeine mingles with various parts of our nervous system, granting us a focus, mood elevation, and aversion to fatigue. But how does it do this? Is caffeine really so strong as to alter our brain chemicals? And if so, how does it even breach the neurological gates? Surely one of our trusty neurotransmitters would sense deviation and battle the intruder.

Sometimes, coffee get’s boring. Sugar, creamer, blah, blah, blah. Everyone has a routine, but this insults the infinite possibilities of coffee creation. The blends out on the market today really capture the potential for coffee flavor, but what about your own morning cup? Do you fix your coffee the same way, everyday? Could you use a little spice, or oil, or leaves?

In the 1800s, many Americans worked seventy hours or more per week. Even into the early 1900’s, specifically around the Great Depression, many would work 40 hours and then clock out and work another 4-5 hours for free just to keep their job. Thankfully, those tough times are in the rear view mirror, but still the number of hours Americans workers put in, on average, is just shy of 50 hours a week.

That is a lot of hours. Surprisingly, just because we work more hours does not make us more productive according to a Gallup survey. So, how do we get our edge back?