Local coffee shop here is also a roaster and a helping hands non-profit. Even years ago the price of a cup was too much for me to spare, so I’ve always opted for their beans. The have a subscription with a slight discount and recently started selling 5-pound bags so my price per ounce is even lower than it was in the past. One of the few thing that hasn’t gone up.
Coffee prices will continue to go up; most people do not realize that already today climate collapse is responsible for part of the inflation. Coffee and chocolate plantations are suffering from erratic weather and droughts. In addition, demand for coffee is continuously increasing too; but overall all crops are suffering from lower productivity, so food will get more and more expensive… even if we manage to not pass the 2.5C global heating.
We’re going to be left with robusta beans, and I’m pissed.
The price of coffee in a cafe has fuck all to do with coffee prices.
The cost of coffee in a cafe is more about staff and rent, sure, but when the raw ingredients go up, it still affects the price.
Let me think about this.
Sure does. They would lose money if the cost of the beans was more expensive than the coffee sold for to the customer.
$2.50 for that was nuts to begin with.
Ground coffee is about $8 a bag at the grocery. Much cheaper to make your own at home.
(Edit: I am no less infuriated than OP. Just pointing out how ridiculous this markup/gouging is.)
The point is that we should be able to maintain a certain standard of living…
Whats the point of constantly telling people to eat at home and not enjoy anything that costs money?
Why even eat food when we can just eat soylent? Why even eat when we can just live in a pod of goop and be connected to the matrix? Much cheaper to live like that!
You make an excellent point. It had just occurred to me because i have been having to cut back and find solutions to ridiculous price gouging like this. Between the high prices and the cost cutting quality of eating out these days, i find myself making a lot more stuff at home. I’ve also had to remove a lot of restaurants from my list of places to eat. One place charged me $30 for scrambled eggs, oatmeal, and iced tea. I haven’t been back. Comparing the price of a bag of ground at the grocery to this retail cup just points out how ridiculous it all is. It’s no less infuriating.
and i wasn’t calling your post out specifically… i see this all over the internet… people complain about the price of going out and the advice is always “just stay home and make food/coffee!”
i don’t want to just survive on the cheapest possible budget and never enjoy anything… that’s just a race to the bottom and ends with us sitting in little pods living out whatever dystopian nightmare they predicted decades ago…
No worries. I think we’re on the same page.
Because if you continue paying the high prices, then companies will just increase them again. Because the market will bear it.
The only way to stop it is to vote with your wallet. It only took like 1% of subscribers canceling to get Disney to change its stance on Kimmel.
but you’re comparing disney to a local cafe…
these guys aren’t just willy-nilly increasing the price of coffee for funsies. a lot of these issues have to do with supply chain, commercial rents, and billionaire created issues… the real solution isn’t just to stay home and let your local cafe go bankrupt… need to solve the big picture issues that are causing inflation without the wage increases that we all need.
It wasn’t subscribers. It was Disney adults cancelling their vacations. That’s how Disney actually makes money, they won’t fuck with those people.
In microeconomic theory, an agent gains utility from consumption and has a willingness to pay. If a normal product has a higher price than the willingness to pay is, he will not consume that product. He will consume another product.
I am not sure if I shall laugh but you are suggesting to ignore the willingness to pay and just pay whatever the price is because your utility from dining out is incredibly high.
You can easily substitute food at a restaurant. Food at restaurants is mostly not even good anymore. You are doing yourself a favor if you do not consume their ultra high processed food.
Also, you may have enough money to spend as much as you want for a cup of coffe but there are people, most people, who can (or should) not afford a cup for 5 bucks because buying a pack for 8 lasts all month vs 150 if consumed every day.
Craving is a very bad state for the mind. Becoming free of craving gives you more than consuming all the shiny stuff that you see all day long, everywhere.
Coffee is going extinct, the price will only go up from here.
The most expensive stuff I buy is $18 per 12oz (used to be 16oz) bag. Still makes about 20 cups of some of the best coffee money can buy.
The price of good coffee has definitely risen lately, but the price at the bottom of the market has really cranked up. Something like a can of folgers has basically doubled in the past year or so.
I say this, but i shouldn’t jinx it. I’m sure there are a lot of companies who are salivating at the idea of jacking up the price of ground coffee at the grocery to match the ridiculous expense of retail.
AFAIK drip coffee is made from ground coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_coffeeSo I think OP is buying his at $5 for a bag of ground coffee, without specifying a size???
The difference is getting a coffee at a bar vs getting coffee at home, not switching ingredients.
OK doesn’t look like a bar tom me.
OP is not clear about that.
But yes buying out is always expensive.You’re right it’s not clear, but to me it’s a very unlikely price and a very unlikely cup for a coffee at home.
The price does not seem unlikely if it’s a pack of ground coffee.
That kind of cup is pretty normal here. Not as much as it used to be, but some people still prefer traditional coffee cups instead of mugs. And the little creamer thingy is pretty normal too if you use milk in your coffee.
Also most bars here would have bigger cups than that.
But it’s impossible to say for sure one way or the other. There is not a lot to go on in that picture.But the headline says “this coffee” and that would indicate it’s just the 1 cup of coffee.
So maybe it is a bar?
There’s really no value in going to a coffee shop any more unless its to socialize, and the social element is dying by design. The coffee quality is never better than you can make at home for a tenth of the price, and most places are now redesigning their interiors so that they encourage people to move on, not hang out.
I mean look at the chair in OP’s pic - sit on that for more than 10 minutes and you’re going to have a crimp in your back. That’s an intentional design element to keep you moving and not taking up space for new customers.
You give me a coffee shop with big ass sofas and a piano and chess sets and wifi and I’ll gladly pay $5 a cup to hang out. I’ll probably end up spending another $20 while I’m there. But the coffee alone just ain’t worth it.
You give me a coffee shop with big ass sofas and a piano and chess sets and wifi and I’ll gladly pay $5 a cup to hang out. I’ll probably end up spending another $20 while I’m there. But the coffee alone just ain’t worth it.
I agree with Chandler. I heard Central Perk is cool.
When where coffee shops solely about the coffee?
Totally agree. There’s one or two privately owned coffee shops that still have tables and chairs made for sitting and doing things at.
Forget it with any of the big chains. I’m halfway expecting some anti-homeless architecture on their small ass stools next time I’m there…which won’t be ever since they priced me out.
It’s actually worse here in Denmark, prices on ground coffee have more than tripled since 3 years ago.
Back the we could get a 500g pack for a little less than $3.50 USD, now we get only 400g for $10, when on special offer you may be lucky to find it at $7. That’s 2½ times the price, even when on special offer.
So needless to say I always buy several bags when it’s on special offer. But even then it’s more than twice the price of 3 years ago.Some brands are now even reducing the packages to 350g. Which isn’t much more than a half size bag used to be.
And coffee is still way too cheap.
You’ve got coffee shrinkflation? In Germany it’s still 500 grams, but expensive, of course. I only buy the brands that are on offer.
Yes we have shrinkflation on coffee, we used to have 400g packages special roast that they claimed could be used to make as many cups of coffee as a 500g, but of course that’s bullshit, and it taste worse IMO.
Some brands still have 500g packages, and one of the most popular is 10,50 Euro!
And it’s been bought by American Keurig Dr Pepper, so I’ll never buy that again.
I really have an urge to put small American flags on that shit.
Not defending the price of a cup of coffee at all, but as someone who roasts their own coffee (both cause I love the process and am a cheap bastard), its only fair to point out the price of green beans is almost exactly double the price it was 3 years ago.
Again, plenty of ways to slice the astronomic price, but at the end of the day I would only half blame the restaurant here on the mark up
https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/2535/coffee-prices-historical-chart-data
Your post made me wonder proportion of the price corresponds to the beans. I’m surprised it’s so high honestly, and it may still have gone up since 2024.
Do you use robusta or arabica? My understanding is that arabica is what’s skyrocketing in price, but many coffee shops use robusta beans which are more climate change tolerant (and cheaper).
This feels more like oil companies arbitrarily jacking up prices in 23 and using Russia invading Ukraine as an excuse (despite only a small fraction of our oil coming from Russia).
The only people using robusta (at least in the US, I cant speak for other markets) is bottom tier trash like Folgers. No real coffee shop uses it.
Used to sit and drink coffee and talk to friends for hours at the small town diner for 52¢, bottomless.
I try to reduce my coffee/caffeine consumption but if I get a coffee at a diner, you’d better believe I’m slamming five or more.
Thanks Obama
Whatever for? I don’t see how Obama influenced coffee pricing?
It is a joke
Ah shit fell for that one 🤓
That’s the stuff they serve for free after every church service. Just bring a thermos and ask them to fill 'er up.
I’ll just make some at home, but thanks. Nice try, though.
What is church service, is that when Christians visit church on sundays?
A church service is the unit of church. Most of them will occur on Sundays, but there could be multiple spread over the day. Check your local church schedule and sneak in at the end of the service.
Check your local church schedule
No thanks
So many things are getting harder to justify buying these days. Definitely been going out less in general. :(
It’s a large part lower yields because of drought, a part increased demand (especially from Asia) and a bonus part of inflation for a bunch of other reasons.
Plus tip
Meanwhile, I can get 100 black teabags for like 5 dollars.
Same with other super cheap drinks like iced tea, soda, etc.
Fuck em. I refuse to pay those exorbitant prices for your shittily brewed iced tea and coffee.
I didn’t mind paying a buck for shitty diner coffee. We had a deal - you serve cheap-ass shitty coffee for a buck, free refills, I make it tolerable with creamer, and that’s that.
Now you wanna make a killing on something shitty that I know exactly how much it costs? Fuck you.
I used to love to go to diners, but the way they’ve raised prices in the last 10 years or so, nope. I’m done.
Having worked in restaurants I have insight into how the costs work. I want you to be successful, but not when you’re gouging me.
Last diner breakfast I had was $50 for 2 people. Wtf? That’s 10x what I can make it for at home.
So as these places go tits up, they have no one to blame but themselves.
