In the many buildings that they populated in North Austin in the '90s, none of the IT areas had free coffee or soda. In our building, we had a coop where a director purchased supplies and drinkers put a quarter into an empty coffee can as their "donation" towards future supplies. Someone had brought in one of those 60 cup banquet hall sized percolators, and the donations went towards filters and cans of coffee.

HOWEVER, if you were in sales in their corporate campus in Round Rock, you not only got free coffee and/or soda pop, your break rooms had ping pong tables or foosball tables.