230ml Coffee Pouches

Keeping Korean Coffee Pouches at Your Office Desk

Shakeel Afzal 3 min read

Keeping Korean Coffee Pouches at Your Office Desk

Most office coffee arrangements fail at the same point: the machine is two floors away, the pantry jar is empty by Wednesday, and the walk is long enough that you skip it. Keeping your own supply at your desk removes the walk. The Lotte Retail collection is a straightforward way to do it, since Lotte Cantata iced coffee comes in sealed 230ml pouches that stack in a drawer and need nothing doing to them. This page is about turning that into a routine: how much to keep, where to keep it, and how often to reorder.

Lotte Cantata Original Iced Hazelnut Coffee 230ml pouch

Working Out Your Weekly Number

Count what you actually drink for one week before you order anything. One coffee a day over a five-day week is five pouches, which is half a 10-pack outer and a reorder every fortnight. Two a day is ten, so an outer a week. If you work six days, or share with the person at the next desk, you are into carton territory quickly, and a carton of fifty covers about ten weeks at one a day. Write the number down, because guessing is how people end up either with an empty drawer on a Tuesday or with a carton they are still working through three months later.

Where the Pouches Actually Live

Split the supply in two. Keep the bulk of it sealed in a desk drawer or a cupboard out of direct sunlight, and keep two or three in the office fridge so there is always a cold one ready. Every time you take a cold one, move a replacement in behind it, and the system runs itself. Put your name on the fridge ones if the fridge is shared, because an unlabelled pouch in a communal fridge is a pouch you will not see again. On flavours, the Original Iced Hazelnut Coffee is the one most people settle on for daily drinking, because its nutty character is mild enough not to wear thin by Thursday.

Keep a few of the Original Iced Black Coffee alongside it. It is the direct option in the range, a straight roasted-coffee taste, and it is the one to reach for when you want a drink that does not compete with whatever you are eating at your desk.

The Iced Caramel Macchiato Coffee works better as an occasional change than as a daily default, since it is the sweetest in the range and tastes closer to a cafe order than a working drink. The Iced Sweet Americano is the middle setting if hazelnut is too flavoured and black too plain to carry a full week.

A mixed drawer beats a uniform one. Buying two flavours instead of twenty pouches of a single one is what keeps the routine from going stale, and it means you are not stuck with a drawer full of something you have gone off.

Stocking for a Team Rather Than a Desk

The same arithmetic scales up. Multiply the daily number by the people who will actually drink it, not by headcount, and round down on the first order. A shared pantry runs better on cartons with one named person responsible for reordering than on everyone buying their own outer, which is how you end up with six half-empty packs on the same shelf. Set a fixed reorder point, such as the day the last outer is opened, rather than reordering once the shelf is already bare, because a restock does not arrive within the hour and that gap is when people go back to the machine two floors away.

Ordering and Restocking

Lotte Cantata is halal and produced under HACCP food safety controls, and a certificate of analysis is available on request, which is the document your office administrator will be asked for if the order goes through procurement. Seoul Oasis delivers free anywhere in the UAE on orders above AED 300, so it is worth grouping a restock into one order rather than splitting it across several. You can pay online at checkout or by bank transfer, and a transfer against an invoice is usually simpler for a company account. Put the reorder in the calendar on the day you open the last outer and the drawer never runs dry.

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