The company paid $1 instead of a quarter. Why the original poster even put up a fight about saving 750 dollars.... can't tell you. They probably spent more on keeping the kitchen stocked with coffee and soda each month.

The company is paying an extra $9000/year. With a boss like this, it's perfectly possible that they don't stock the kitchen with coffee and soda, because the CEO is already having somebody bring him his caramel macchiatos, so he doesn't care, and money's tight, because his people just do what the boss says instead of him trusting them to do the right thing.