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Price of the coffee is the smallest part of that cup of coffee though, probably less than a dollar. The vast majority of it is everything else from facilities to work and leeches cutting their profits
Yes but every middleman will add as much as possible to profit and blame it on the tariffs.
"Preemptive tariff compensation".
Yeah, just waiting for the record profits of the coffee importers and processing plants.
They’re putting huge tariffs on Switzerland too. Which makes the grinders and other shit Starbucks uses to make coffee in its shops.
However, I’m pretty sure roasted beans and ground coffee at the grocery store is just price fixed to the cost of a cup at the megacorp coffee shops at this point.
Fuck this place. And fuck it’s coffee industry.
Are we sure this person isn't buying instant granules? At least to my Australian brain, a 25 fl oz cup of coffee (~739 mL in real units), is a patently insane size to buy from a cafe.
Yes
They aren't buying that either; they are buying a 25 oz (~700g) container of coffee beans, most likely pre-ground
Yeah this makes sense, many thanks for this possible explanation!
(Apparently people do buy 25 fl oz of coffee from a cafe according to another comment, which is mind blowing to me)
That's probably a fill for a thermos, but yeah that's a proper size coffee.
At that point, why go to a cafe?
This is very Australian of me, but you don't really go to cafes just to drink a boatload of coffee. You go for the vibes, or the great quality coffee, but if you want 25 fl oz of coffee, what exactly are you buying. Batch brew (drip coffee to the Americans, I think?)
You'd be wired as fuck, that's for sure haha
Grab a coffee on the go? Idk it's common here
People grab takeaway coffee here also, but not a 740 mL coffee. Those really are insane sizes.
Yeah it's on the bigger side, would last all day for me most days
Damn, we are built different haha