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	Subject - GFCI on commercial coffee maker SteveMc We are installing a new coffee station in our bookstore, th drawings call for a GFCI protected 30a 240v receptacle. I have never found anything in the NEC that required this. Has anyone else run across this situation before. The coffee maker is a commercial type with water piped to it. The only other equipment on the counter top is a microwave and maybe a cappuccino machine. JimmyDee Not required. This is someones annal thing to protect themselves from any possible liability from a situation they know nothing about. They want it added, just in case it might be needed. I don't think anyone is going to swim in it. Counter top plug should have a gfci. Jim Electricman I sure hope that puppy doesnt trip while someone is going through caffine withdrawal. SteveMc The guy who drew the plans for this renovation must have just gotten out of school, they are not very good drawings. As for the coffee maker, the 2-pole 30a GFCI breaaker wasn't cheap, but we put it in. Ryan_J The designer may have read 210.8(B)(3) and got carried away.