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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 9, 2017 18:38:24 GMT
Ever wonder why coffee shops are popping up right, left and centre? Here's one explanation......few years ago I did a fresh coffee multi drop delivery round to help a mate out in Buckfastleigh. He imported a blended Italian coffee called Rocca and supplied independent cafes throughout Devon and Cornshire. As an example of just one of my deliveries( I remember this one because the cafe owner was a Stokie running it with his Devon Mrs) I delivered 3-4 12kg boxes of fresh coffee beans every week to his busy cafe on Paignton sea front. Each box cost him around £100- £115 dependending on the strength and each 12kg box would provide around 1500 cups of coffee which cost around £1.75 a cup (8 years ago). Do the maths to work out his sales profit just on the coffee and he sold tea, cakes and sandwiches as well.. Of course he had overheads which in Paignton would be pretty steep but nevertheless pretty lucrative.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 18:41:10 GMT
Ever wonder why coffee shops are popping up right, left and centre? Here's one explanation......few years ago I did a fresh coffee multi drop delivery round to help a mate out in Buckfastleigh. He imported a blended Italian coffee called Rocca and supplied independent cafes throughout Devon and Cornshire. As an example of just one of my deliveries( I remember this one because the cafe owner was a Stokie running it with his Devon Mrs) I delivered 3-4 12kg boxes of fresh coffee beans every week to his busy cafe on Paignton sea front. Each box cost him around £100- £115 dependending on the strength and each 12kg box would provide around 1500 cups of coffee which cost around £1.75 a cup (8 years ago). Do the maths to work out his sales profit just on the coffee and he sold tea, cakes and sandwiches as well. Lucrative business indeed. I think a big part of it is because of its addictive qualities As addictive as any drug
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Post by Kewstokie on Feb 9, 2017 22:39:34 GMT
Tax dodging Starbucks are one of the largest pariah outfits going. Should be shut down.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Feb 10, 2017 0:27:29 GMT
I'm not sure whether I'm bothered or sad about missing out on this particular fad.
Costa coffeee in a tommy tipper, {with a Danish} what's it all about?
Living a NY loft dream in downtown S-o-T?
"A HANDBOOK OF KNOWLEDGE.
No. VIII.-THE COFFEE-SHOP.
Q. What is a Coffee-Shop? A. The opprobrium of the London thoroughfares. Q. May I ask you to particularise a little? A. It is difficult in a few words to define so curious a combination of many nastinesses as the London Coffee-Shop. Q. Is it not, as its name implies, a shop for the sale of Coffee? A. That would, in most cases, be an imperfect and misleading definition. Firstly, because most Coffee-Shops sell other things than Coffee. Secondly, and most importantly, because most Coffee Shops do not sell Coffee at all. Q. But does not this singular carrying out of the 'lucus a non lucendo' principle lead to difficulties with would-be customers? A. Not at all. Q. How, then, do the keepers of Coffee-Houses avoid such difficulties? A. By substituting various dirty and dismal decoctions which they vend under the name of the genuine produce of Mocha. Q. How are these decoctions composed? A. Of ingredients as numerous, and often as unpleasant, as the constituents of the Witches' broth in Macbeth, among the more innocent of which are chicory, horse-beans, and fig-refuse. Q. By what devices are these decoctions rendered palatable to the purchaser? A. They are not rendered palatable at all. On the contrary, the muddy and tepid draught from the clumsy and unclean Coffee-House cup is as unpleasant to all the senses as can well be imagined. Q. Are, then, the Coffee-Shops of London little used? A. On the contrary, they are largely patronised by the lower and even the middle classes. The Coffee-House is, indeed, in many eases the restaurant of poor respectability, and to no small extent the home of such persons as labourers, cabmen, and the poorer grades of shopmen and clerks. Q. What appearance do these curiously-conducted shops present? A. Externally they are generally characterised by a sort of surface smartness, so far as this can be produced by paint, French-polish, gold-lettering, and gleaming lamps. Internally they are almost invariably frowsy, foetid, and -fly-blown. Particularly the latter; the Coffee-House fly being an insect which, for plentifulness and pertinacity, surpasses even his fellows of the Butcher's or Confectioner's Shop. Q. Will you describe the average Coffee-House interior a little more in detail? A. In entering it, you probably plunge down an unseen and treacherous step, or steps, into a dingy, stall-divided, low-ceiling'd apartment, with an aspect of misty gloom, and an atmosphere of steamy unsavouriness. The "stalls," consisting of narrow tables and hard seats, are of wood, grimy mahogany, or grubby sham-oak, the whole confined, unclean, and dismally uncomfortable. If there be any cloth at all upon the table, it is invariably smutty and egg-stained into a sort of Whistlerian arrangement in soot and gamboge. Most commonly there is no cloth at all, but the grease-coated and coffee-ringed board is left bare to sight and to touch. The ceiling is low and smoke-darkened exceedingly; the walls are steamy, and decorated with hat-pegs and battered advertisements. The murky air of the apartment is resonant with a dull, yet fretful and irritating booming. It is the co-operative buzzing of myriads of flies, whose bodies, or whose traces are on and over everything, ceilings, walls, clumsy cups and saucers, the mysterious decoctions served therein, the coarse sugar in the shattered glass bowl, the dirty milk in the dirtier mug, the rickety cruet-stand, and the odd and fractured castors, the greasy bread-and-butter, and the equivocal egg. Q. And what are the attendants upon the unhappy customer in this dreary den? A. Commonly depressed men in shirt-sleeves and aprons, or blowsy and bare-armed women."
Over a hundred years ago and we still havn't wised up.
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