On September 30, BulkBar, Chacun Son Café, Kusmi Tea, Source, and Cup Cleaner joined forces to co-host Future of Break, an immersive event at the Climate House, a landmark of ecological transition in Paris.
Our shared ambition: to show that office breaks can become meaningful, sustainable moments that benefit people and the planet. Breaks can now contribute to employee well-being, lower carbon footprints, and improve quality of work life.
This hands-on experience combined natural drinks, healthy snacks, zero-waste vending machines, and innovative services. Attendees discovered real-world alternatives for creating a healthier, more eco-friendly, and purposeful workplace.
Here’s a look back at an inspiring event.
Chacun Son Café: fairer, more responsible coffee
B Corp-certified roaster for offices
Chacun Son Café is a French company and a pioneer in sustainable coffee. As the first B Corp-certified coffee roaster in France, it provides coffee solutions for both businesses and individuals, combining great taste with environmental commitment. Its purpose: offering ethical, traceable coffee that respects ecosystems.
Impact model: One Cup One Cent
One of the company’s flagship initiatives, One Cup One Cent, turns words into action. For every cup of coffee consumed, one cent is donated to reforestation projects in the Congo Basin. This simple, transparent model transforms every office coffee break into a direct gesture for the planet.
Tailored coffee solutions for professionals
Chacun Son Café’s B2B offering combines carefully sourced coffee, traditional roasting in France, and packaging adapted to office needs. This approach gives companies a way to align coffee enjoyment with their sustainability and CSR goals.
Kusmi Tea: organic tea made in Normandy
A century-old French tea house
Founded in 1867, Kusmi Tea brings French elegance to the world of tea, with a strong focus today on organic agriculture and local production. Based in Normandy, the brand offers a wide range of certified organic teas and herbal infusions, all designed, blended, and packaged in France.
A wellness-driven offer for the workplace
Through its B2B offer, Kusmi Tea (also B Corp-certified) invites companies to offer their teams healthier, more relaxing breaks. Whether green tea, black tea, or herbal blends, each product is crafted to integrate seamlessly into workplace routines, supporting both well-being and mental reset.
Organic, local, and uncompromising on taste
Kusmi Tea focuses on natural recipes without artificial flavors, all wrapped in eco-designed packaging. Its presence at Future of Break showed that a hot drink at work can be both a taste experience and a responsible choice, aligned with CSR priorities and employees’ growing expectations for a better quality of work life.
Cup Cleaner: no more disposable cups, no friction
A smart mug rinser for workplaces
Cup Cleaner offers a simple, concrete solution: a compact, fast-rinse station for mugs and reusable containers. Installed in office break areas, it rinses a mug or bottle in seconds while reducing waste at the source.
Eco-designed and ultra-efficient in water use
The station uses up to 75 times less water than a conventional rinse, with just 2 cl per cycle. It’s a smart, office-ready innovation for companies, co-working spaces, or shared environments, making zero waste accessible without any trade-offs.
Aligning daily habits with CSR strategy
Cup Cleaner helps companies lower their environmental impact. By replacing disposable cups with an easy-to-use, reusable option, it answers the growing demand for operational sustainability. Future of Break was the perfect chance to see this solution in real life.
Source: a new way to drink, zero packaging
Healthy hydration, zero waste
Source offers an innovative drink solution for offices with no single-use packaging. Its system delivers natural drinks based on fruit and plant concentrates, low in sugar, with no sweeteners or preservatives. Everything is served via a refillable or packaging-free dispenser.
Technology that creates impact
Installed in office spaces (among other places), Source’s tap system makes it easy to serve custom, craft-style drinks on demand while eliminating waste from bottled beverages. No transport, no plastic, no useless marketing. A direct answer to the pollution caused by soft drinks in the workplace.
A responsible break with full flavor
The Source experience fits naturally into workplaces committed to CSR or zero waste. It delivers a healthy, flavorful hydration break while aligning with the sustainability goals more and more companies are setting.
BulkBar: healthy snacks, bulk-style
Boost productivity with better snacks
At BulkBar, we see snack breaks as a real opportunity: to bring energy, focus, and enjoyment while making a difference for the planet. Our dispensers of nuts, grains, and granola offer an organic, zero-waste alternative to industrial snacks.
Snack bar
Nuts, whole grains, granola: with BulkBar, every office has access to a real snack bar. Our zero waste offering limits packaging and maximizes taste. The dispensers are stylish, practical, and designed to fit in any type of work environment.
A turnkey CSR solution
BulkBar helps companies set up sustainable office spaces while also supporting productivity and workplace well-being. It’s also a great tool for strengthening any strategy focused on improving the quality of work life, with snacks that are as healthy as they are engaging.
Future of Break: conscious break, immediate impact
This event wasn’t just another trade show. It was a real immersive showroom. By bringing together five complementary actors in the food and ecological transition, Future of Break showed that the office break can become a powerful CSR lever.
In the inspiring setting of Climate House, attendees saw how everyday rituals like coffee breaks, snacking, and hydration can become climate-positive actions. Effortlessly and guilt-free.
In conclusion: the office break becomes sustainable
Reinventing the office break doesn’t mean making it more complex. It means aligning it with the company’s values. Well-being, sustainability, energy, zero waste: the solutions featured at Future of Break prove that doing better can be simple.
Thanks to brands like Kusmi Tea, Chacun Son Café, Source, Cup Cleaner, and BulkBar, the break becomes a tool for collective performance and ecological transition.
Published on 12/11/2025
