As an employer, you probably seldom think about encouraging your employees to take breaks. After all, it logically follows that more time working yields greater employee output. However, having a well-stocked breakroom where workers can take brief breaks improves employee performance, according to expert research. As such, stocking an area of your medical office with breakroom essentials helps your company perform better.

But what are the best breakroom supplies for your office? Here’s a full run-down.

Office Breakroom Essentials

Snacks

When employees don’t have the opportunity to eat throughout the day, their blood sugar drops, negatively impacting the brain and its functions. Eating keeps glucose levels up, so having small snacks for your workers to consume throughout the day keeps them energized and helps their cognitive functions remain smart.

Yet, purchasing too many sugary snacks can also negatively influence their performance. Sugar causes a sharp spike in glucose, which then crashes, leaving people tired and sluggish. You don’t have to avoid the occasional junk food snack altogether, but having healthy snacks on hand will encourage your employees to eat foods packed with nutrients that improve and sustain brain function. Having healthier options on hand also helps you encourage healthy eating patterns, which is in line with the goals of most medical practices.

Kar’s Gluten-Free Sweet ‘n Salty Trail Mixes

But if you want to give your employees a relatively healthy snack that still has a little bit of sweetness in it, consider adding Kar’s Gluten-Free Sweet ‘n Salty Trail Mixes to your list of breakroom essentials. It features a delightful blend of roasted and salted peanuts, chocolate candies, sweet raisins, and sunflower kernels. The bags are small enough to carry easily, making them perfect for your employees to take back to their desks. They’re also gluten-free and kosher.

Bare Baked Crunchy Gluten-Free Apple Fruit Snack Chips

Even though we’re focusing on healthy foods right now, not many can escape the irresistible crunch of a chip followed by the burst of an iconic flavor! Fortunately, there’s an option for business owners who want to buy healthy snacks without foregoing chips. The Bare Baked Crunch Gluten-Free Apple Fruit Snack Chips bundle features 16 bags of apple slices that have been baked for an enviable crunch.

Great Value Chewy Granola Bars Variety Pack

Sometimes, your employees may want an easy-to-grab snack to satisfy their morning cravings and keep their energy up all day long. The Great Value Chewy Granola Bars Variety Pack allows them to do just that. These handheld bars pack 9 grams of whole grains per serving. Even better, they’ll satisfy the cravings of every sweet tooth with contain peanut butter chocolate chip, chocolate chip, and s’more flavors.

Frito-Lay Snacks Flavor Mix Snack Chips

If some of your employees have more of a salty tooth, you’ll want to get them some chip bags to snack on throughout the day. This Frito-Lay bundle gives you 42 packs of some of the bestselling chips of all time, including Cheetos Crunchy Cheese Snacks, Cheetos Puffs Cheese Snacks, Lay’s Sour Cream & Onion Potato Chips, Lay’s Barbecue Potato Chips, Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream Potato Chips, Fritos Chili Corn Chips, Doritos Nacho Cheese, and Doritos Cool Ranch. These snacks have a long shelf life, too, so you won’t have to worry about replacing them too often!

Drinks

Coffee

When your employees first get to the office, they’re likely to still be in the process of feeling fully awake. So, you need to add something rejuvenating to your workplace breakroom supplies, such as some coffee pods. These Great Value Medium Roast Cinnamon Vanilla Ground Coffee Pods make it easy for your workers to quickly make a cup of coffee. All they need to do is pop one of the cups into one of the coffee makers at your breakroom’s coffee station, and they’ll be good to go!

Water

Hydration plays a crucial role in keeping your employees healthy and able to work in a productive manner. So, you’ll want to supply them with enough water throughout the day. To motivate them to drink more, buy some water bottles with some fun flavors, such as the Splash Refresher Acai Grape Flavored Water. It has all the benefits of regular water but tastes better!

But of course, you can also get regular water bottles as well!

Soda

Sodas are some of the most popular beverages in office break rooms. So, you’ll want to get several types of sodas to accommodate for all the various tastes around your workspace.

For a unique taste, start with Dr. Pepper. For those who prefer more classic flavors, we recommend one of the Coke products.

Set Up Your Breakroom Supplies

Now that you have an idea of what to get for your breakroom essentials, you’re ready to start assembling them into an attractive arrangement. But you’re a medical center, not an interior design office, so we’ve got you. Here are some tips for decorating your office’s rooms!