Every place I have ever worked provided free coffee. I don't drink coffee, but I'm told that in all the places it was crappy and in one place several people joined together into a little paid co-op to purchase better coffee for themselves.
In addition, the pawnshop IT department and the videogame company provided subsidized sodas (25 cents each), the construction company where I temped for awhile provided a wide array of free drinks and snacks, the educational software company provided subsidized sodas and catered lunch once a month...
but my husband's current employer provides an obscene smorgasbord of free food, including milk/cereal, microwaveable meals, fruit, and a freaking convenience store's worth of snack foods. They're living large over there.
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