I don’t need to give up coffee to not pay $4 a cup for it. I make it at home. I even have an Aeroccino so I can make fancy drinks!

I’m not sure what is so surprising to you about paying for labor and convenience. Everything that you can make yourself at home—soup, coffee, sushi, a sandwich—is going to cost more if you dine out, even at a fast food or quick-serve establishment.

The price of EVERYTHING has gone up, not just food and beverage. Why are you shocked?

You're paying for ease and quickness, and more importantly the convenience, of a cup of coffee.

You need to ask yourself at what point is your time not worth the money ($4).

Grande Americano (3x espresso shots) at my local Starbucks is $4.25 plus tax. Grande drip isn’t much cheaper and the drip tastes so murky, so I pay the Americano premium.

Anonymous wrote:McDonalds coffee is quite good....

No, it’s not. And those cups they use make it smell like burnt plastic. Absolutely vile.

$2.95 for a grande drip at Starbucks

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Anonymous wrote:If you live in the district or Montgomery County, your coffee cost so much because the person handing it to you needs to make $24 an hour base. And probably have benefits too, although I’m not keeping up with that one.

You're wrong with both your numbers and why would you immediately go to blaming the employee instead of the price gouging company? Or the price gouging coffee suppliers. Or climate change which has made coffee beans incredibly expensive.

For sure. It's so much easier to blame the worker.

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2nd attempt: -because- the low-skill employee must make a certain wage, typically per local law, the payroll will increase at Big Bad Company. They pass through those mandatory costs to the consumer rather than take a profit hit.

The DC and Moco councils have socially engineered higher coffee prices for their constituents.

Take the politics crap elsewhere. This post is about coffee. Perhaps go have some. You seem cranky

Anonymous wrote:At Starbucks a small drip coffee is around $3.

A grande is $4.95 where I live

McDonalds coffee is quite good....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you live in the district or Montgomery County, your coffee cost so much because the person handing it to you needs to make $24 an hour base. And probably have benefits too, although I’m not keeping up with that one.

You're wrong with both your numbers and why would you immediately go to blaming the employee instead of the price gouging company? Or the price gouging coffee suppliers. Or climate change which has made coffee beans incredibly expensive.

For sure. It's so much easier to blame the worker.

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2nd attempt: -because- the low-skill employee must make a certain wage, typically per local law, the payroll will increase at Big Bad Company. They pass through those mandatory costs to the consumer rather than take a profit hit.

The DC and Moco councils have socially engineered higher coffee prices for their constituents.

At Starbucks a small drip coffee is around $3.

Husband got a large coffee at McDonald’s last week for $2.00. (It wasn’t great, but drip coffee rarely is.)

Anonymous wrote:If you live in the district or Montgomery County, your coffee cost so much because the person handing it to you needs to make $24 an hour base. And probably have benefits too, although I’m not keeping up with that one.

I think min wage in the region we’re in right now is somewhere around $12. It appeared to be an 18 year old college kid working the drive thru. Drip coffee costs pennies per cup to make. $4 for a medium and presumably $4.50 for a large is insane.

Anonymous wrote:If you live in the district or Montgomery County, your coffee cost so much because the person handing it to you needs to make $24 an hour base. And probably have benefits too, although I’m not keeping up with that one.

You're wrong with both your numbers and why would you immediately go to blaming the employee instead of the price gouging company? Or the price gouging coffee suppliers. Or climate change which has made coffee beans incredibly expensive.

For sure. It's so much easier to blame the worker.

If you live in the district or Montgomery County, your coffee cost so much because the person handing it to you needs to make $24 an hour base. And probably have benefits too, although I’m not keeping up with that one.

I rarely drink coffee these days. But I just ordered a medium drip from an independent coffee shop near our in-laws home in a middle income region. $4! Not a fresh pour-over, the girl simply poured it from a huge drip coffee container next to the drive thru window.

At these prices, glad I gave it up.