On 2014-05-31 18:08:32 +0000, Steve Freides said:

> dsi1 wrote:
>> On 5/31/2014 2:43 AM, Steve Freides wrote:
>>> Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>>>
>>>> K-cups are one step from Soylent.
>>>
>>> I remind everyone that this is for use at my wife's work, where she
>>> was not invited to help select the coffee brewing method.
>>>
>>> -S-
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I used to have one in my small office. I could offer a customer a cup
>> of joe and have a fresh cup in a couple of minutes. It worked great
>> until the unit crapped out. Now the customers get no coffee. That's
>> the breaks.
>
> My wife teaches in a school - the coffee is in the kitchen (a school
> that in what used to be a private estate/home) and people come and go
> unpredictably, grabbing something if it's available between classes,
> when they have a free period, etc. In that way, the idea of only
> making what you need is good, otherwise they used to either have no
> coffee if someone forgot to brew it or very old coffee if no one had
> made it in a while.
>
> -S-

That's why one brings their own coffee in a thermos.