In case you didn't know, October 1st was International Coffee Day! To celebrate, we interviewed our Ivanti Insiders to get their thoughts on the world's most popular morning beverage. And while nine of the 40 respondents were non-coffee drinkers, the remainder of those surveyed had plenty of opinions on the subject. 

Name

What is your favorite coffee drink?

How do you take your coffee?

What is your favorite fall/winter coffee drink?

Favorite snack to have with your coffee?

Aldo Gil, System Integration Analyst

Regular Latte

Warm but not blazing hot with 2 teaspoons of brown sugar.

Anything with pumpkin spice

Any flaky pastry

Andre Marsolan, Systems Administrator, Moody College, University of Texas, Austin

Drip brewed or French Press

Cream and sugar

Drip brewed or French Press

No snack for me!

Andrew Fulton, Help Desk Analyst Level 1, Raising Cane's Restaurant 

Mocha or Kahlua 

With creamer

Peppermint mocha

Waffles

Ivanti Insider

Macchiato

A little milk and some sweetener

Spiked apple cider (Crown Royal Apple is great with it)

Nutter Butters

Ivanti Insider

Americano (coffee and espresso)

Black

Coffee

Bacon

Ivanti Insider

Cold Brew

Cream and syrup 

Cold Brew

None really

Ivanti Insider

Americano

Black

Irish coffee

Chocolate

Ivanti Insider

Coffee

Double/double

Coffee

Donuts

Ivanti Insider

Affogato 

Hot with vanilla ice cream 

Pumpkin spice latte 

Biscotti 

Ivanti Insider

Iced coffee. (Do not like hot coffee.)

It depends on the flavoring

Anything spiced

Doughnut

Ivanti Insider

Lately, Ugandan coffee out of a Nespresso machine. 

Black

Black

A cookie

Ivanti Insider

Just regular coffee

With a little bit of milk 

Coffee with rum

Piece of cake

Ivanti Insider

So far my favorite is any flavor macchiato

With a lot of cream and/or milk

Cinnamon spice coffee

Pastry

Jason Koslowski, Senior Systems Analyst, Frandsen Financial

Deathwish

Black... like my soul

Pumpkin spice latte

Muffins

Jeremy Shupick, Network Administrator

JavaChip Frappuccino 

Blended 

JavaChip Frappuccino 

Brownie

Jesse Miller, IT Specialist, SouthStar Bank

I like it all unless it is too sweet.

Black, no sugar 

Latte with hazelnut 

Mocha trail mix 

Katelyn Eubanks, Info. Security Admin

PSL is life!

I have a Nespresso now that i love.

PSL

Cookies

Kelly Ruston, Systems Analyst, William Osler Health System

Coffee first thing, although I'll go iced capp, latte, or cappuccino in the afternoon! 

I managed to wean myself away from double-double years ago. Nowadays I stick with just double cream. 

Coffee! With cream and pumpkin spice in the fall, or French vanilla. 

Croissant, muffin, strudel, turnover, scone, bagel, is there anything that coffee doesn't go amazingly with? 

Kunal Gupta, Technical Architect

Light Roast

Self brew or coffee shop

Chai tea latte

Croissant, bagel or sandwich

Max Christiansen, Workstation Patch Management SME

One of my favorite things is very simple. My girlfriend used to be a barista and introduced me to a black coffee with frothed, high protein, vanilla almond milk.

Usually with just a splash of milk or cream. No sugar for me!

Definitely a mocha with dark chocolate!

You can't make me choose this! It's not fair! I love all snacks!

Mike Abraniuk, Desktop Support Ananlyst

Irish Coffee after work, Sugar-free Vanilla Latte at work

Sweet and creamy

Irish Coffee

Croissant

Paul Kimberley, Team Leader

Summer: Nitro Cold Brew with Sweet Cream Winter: Starbucks Christmas Blend Coffee

Twice a day 

Black Coffee - Starbucks Christmas Blend

Blueberry muffin 

Ralph Bach

Coffee

Double cream

Regular

More coffee

Ross Mastenbrook, System Engineer

Caramel Macchiato

Black

Carmel macchiato

White chocolate fudge dipped Oreos

Ryan Black, Systems Administrator, US Synthetic

The coffee that doesn't taste like coffee at all

With my hands from unsuspecting strangers

The kind that people drink with peppermint in it

Cookies

Samantha Carlton, IT Analyst

Capuccino

With chocolate

Latte

Brownie

Sander Goudswaard, IT Policy Adviser

Black freshly grounded coffee 

Black 

Always black, sorry 

Cookies 

Thomas Smith, Director, Telecom and IT Support, SCI Funeral and Cemetery Purchasing Co-op

Dark roast

Cream and one sweet and low

All

Cigar but I assume you knew that

Tony Miedaner, Director

Starbucks double caffeine 

With Dunkin’ creamer 

Starbucks double caffeinated 

Donuts of course

Vee Ferreira, Team Leader (Service Management)

Flat white. Less froth, more coffee!

No sugar, splash of milk if not ordering flat whites.

Flat whites all year round!

Chelsea scroll or hot cross bun