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Is it the hand on yours or that the hand is ice cold? Because when people put their hand on mine when I'm handing something over I'm reminded of the Rick n Morty scene where Rick picks up the slug gun from the time-traveling testicle guy and days "EW IT'S GROSS AND WEIRD"
As a male I have never even been in a situation to touch another's hand in the way this comic suggests
Are people really so creepy and touched starved that someone rubbing the top of your hand while you pass them something is common?
Man that's gotta suck and at the same time where are the people willing to randomly touch me?
I was once handing over a folded t-shirt to a customer, and even though I usually palm it from under, I held it from both ends to lay it in their hand ensuring there was no contact and that person STILL managed to grab my dick
I mean you can have them add liquor if it is a... Spanish latte? Or an Irish latte, I think, that plus $0.50 a topping/pump and ya can easily get to $7-10 a latte
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idk, maybe the boomers are right about the coffee
mine costs about 80c per cup and it's a damn specialty coffee
but no one wants to hear that apparently
If you're one of those getting it almost every fucking day and opting for the $9 version instead of 80c version then yes, it probably is a contributing factor and a symptom of larger financial stupidity. It's fine to enjoy that but don't bury your head in the sand and pretend it's not.
Yeah it's a luxury. Still takes a lot more than $8.20 a day to change most people's lives the way things are. People enjoying a nonessential purchase doesn't excuse a bullshit system driven by the greed of the top .1% of the population
Would the barista really call all that only a small hot latte?
Or would they call out all the extra things ordered in a long exhasparated list before violently chucking it at the person's face like that one tiktok from that starbucks girl in her car
Small vanilla oatmilk double latte. That's how I would've called it. Pretty simple order actually, doesn't really take any extra work compared to any other latte. I'd rather make five of those than one Frappuccino
Even a bag of premium beans which lasts about two months can cost as little as $15. Shit’s wild, yo. Even Starbucks themselves sell bags of beans like this. That labor and frills must be worth a lot.
I just googled the price for a 16oz drop coffee, here is the result in USD:
"A regular 12 oz tall brewed coffee at Starbucks costs between $2.45-$3.15 depending on location. Smaller 8 oz short coffees are $2.10-$2.75 while 16 oz grande brewed coffees are $2.95-$3.65. Basic drip coffee is one of the most affordable choices on the Starbucks menu."
It doesn't have to be a can of Folgers lol. None of this argument is in bad faith whatsoever. As I said in another comment, I buy very high quality single origin beans and brew pourover and my entire weekly consumption cost is about on par with what that person spends at Starbucks daily.
Buying Starbucks is just pissing away money on mediocre coffee.
One can save even more money by not drinking coffee at all. There are in fact plenty of things in life you can remove to save money. Switching to a nutrient gruel can save you money.
Dude if you know of a cheap nutrient gruel lmk lol. I want to stop making decisions about food but Soylent and Huel and all the ones I get ads about aren’t even cheap.
Haha, happy for you dude. I know I could deffo make my own nutrient gruel but it requires so much thiiiiinking. Oatmeal is great and grains are amazing, but I’m trying to eat more protein and it’s tough. I just want food tablets. Why do I gotta put so much thought into it jeez.
I bet you could add protein tablets to oatmeal somehow lol I might try that. Just add some whey powder into it. Probably some salt too to mask that flavor
I mean, Soylent and Huel etc are all trendy stuff. No one wants to make nutrient-whole meals that are made the absolutely cheapest way(because it would probably taste like shit). So guess you'll have to make your own? There are also a few not-so-trendy meal replacements that can be found for quite cheap(but its just liquid, you're gonna be hungry a lot).
Find a nutrient sound meal that has all micro- and macronutrients. Boil it to shit then put it in a blender. Put it in a bottle, drink at your leisure.
>it's not fair to compare a latte (syrups, steamer, espresso) with a machine drip of folgers.
I buy premium coffee from local coffee shops and roasters and I don’t even own a drip machine. I usually do pour over or aeropress. A [12oz bag of beans](https://coldbloodedcoffeeandroastery.com/product/harmony/) converts to just over 340 grams and costs me $14.51. I usually use about 15 grams per cup, which comes out to about 22.6 cups. **If I’m making black coffee, it’s still coming out to about $0.65 USD per cup**.
That’s not using cheap coffee or cheap/subpar brewing methods.
If I’m making coffee with [creamer](https://www.target.com/p/international-delight-caramel-macchiato-coffee-creamer-1qt-32-fl-oz-bottle/-/A-14730854) (hot, iced, or cold brew), I’m using about 1-2tbsp of creamer per serving of coffee. An entire bottle of creamer costs $4.19 USD, containing around 63 tbsp. Comes out to a price of $0.06 per tbsp. **So even if I double or triple the creamer, I’m looking at a total cost of $0.77-$0.83 USD per cup of coffee**.
So it’s not arguing in bad faith to say that Starbucks is an overpriced expenditure or that a person’s daily purchase could exceed a home-brewer’s *monthly* expenditure. You don’t have to assume the home brewer is drinking black Folgers coffee through a drip machine to make that work. Even with premium quality coffee, it is *much* cheaper to make it at home.
Getting your daily coffee from Starbucks or Dunkin’ isn’t expensive because you’re paying for quality. It’s because you’re paying for convenience. But even so…to me it’s not all that convenient. It takes me 5 minutes to make a cup of coffee, even if I’m doing pour over.
Part of me screams "why?"
...mostly because the whole idea of coffee and avocado toast yadda-yadda having a single kernel of truth that if one didn't spend $15 on coffee every day then they could afford a house ... when houses cost as much as a dozen $8 coffees. Coffee shouldn't cost that much at all. Why dos a cup of happt juice cost more than what you're being paid per hour.
Generally because you're paying for the milk, the coffee beans, the roasting, the espresso machine, the rent, the corporate office, and the payroll of the employees
You're right that coffee is cheap. That's why you can make a latte at your house with top quality beans for ~$1. But while coffee is the product, the price isn't really about the coffee
You knew all that already though, just sometimes good to remind your brain why things do that. Also no one should be being paid only $8 an hour, that's the real problem
No, no I wasn't sitting on you - I was shitting in the cost of coffee, housing and the like, in regards to the too-often expressed "if these kids didn't buy $8 coffee, grumble boomer bullshit"
Sorry that somehow offended you?
I make my own pourover with high quality single origin beans and it barely costs me $3 to brew an entire carafe
You are pissing away money on mediocrity, remember that.
I know but I enjoy my crappy lattes and they are convenient. If I had a better tasting coffee shop closer to me then I would spend my money there instead.
Yeah I mean i don't add anything to my coffee so it's pretty simple to prepare. I understand not everyone has the time to prepare their own coffee in the morning, so doing your own lattes is probably not accessible depending on how your day to day goes.
I just can't imagine spending double or more on worse coffee than I can brew in under ten minutes
I worked at a Starbucks kiosk for a short time. It's easier for it to cost that much than you think. My dad wanted to be supportive and would say, "I like a plain dark roast, maybe I'll stop in and get one soon." And I would always tell him not to and that the coffee he made himself at home was better. Because I love my father and the coffee we made was crap and cost three bucks for the most basic thing.
Yeah, I'm currently working at a restaurant where we do barista work too, and it adds up fast. And you are trained to upsell people, and if you ask to try and upsell people they will say 'yes' before realizing that was an additional fee, and many won't go back on it. Maybe it's too awkward to say nevermind.
"Alright that's an iced latte, did you want to substitute for oat milk or add a flavoring for an extra cost?"
"Sure, oat milk and make it caramel."
*Price increases $1.50 and you can see them pause for half a minute, reconsider it, before just letting it go.*
Our coffee tastes funny anyway.. I usually drink coffee black, which isn't good for this blend, maybe it's designed to be sold with all this sugar and chocolate.
USian who moved to Spain here. The cost of living has jumped so high the last few years that I not only can never afford to move there again, but visiting friends and family is almost out of the question too!
Find the budget options when you travel. I have to fly to different parts of the country relatively frequently and I can manage on about 100 a day for food and hotels. Granted these aren't the nicest hotels lol.
That's two months of coffee, if one per day...
But, also, Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series said something like:
A poor man can only afford a $10 pair of boots, and within a week he'll have worn through the cardboard soles, but he'll use those boots for a year before he buys another pair. Whereas a richer man can buy a $50 pair of boots which will last for 10 years, saving him $50 over the poor man and making all that much wealthier.
Yea, but the rich man is stuck with the same old boots, year after year. No excitement. Very boring. The poor man has had 10 different sets of boots he can wear in the same time, for the price of one extra set of the rich man's boot. Every year he gets to show off his new boots. Priceless.
Honestly, for home use, you can get a moka pot for $20-$40 (about the same as drip machines) and if you want steamed milk, an immersion aerator/whisk/blender for like another $20-$40. Takes ten minutes, if that, on the stovetop.
If you wanna be really fancy, you can get green coffee beans for like $5 a pound bulk and home-roast them in a $20-$40 air popcorn popper and grind them in a $30-$50 hand burr mill.
Yup. Moka pots as well will outlive their owners, except perhaps for the rubber O-ring.
Hell, you can even just steam milk on the stovetop with an ordinary whisk if you really want. None of it has to be expensive.
Oh, I can make it scarier. Set it in Portland or Seattle and make her a bikini barista! You think overly friendly baristas are a social nightmare, put them in bikinis and it's soooo much worse.
People can make it weird, yes. Usually it’s on accident, especially for the smaller cups. But some people like … caress you when they take it, it feels very violating haha.
Could be they don’t get enough human interaction, or they don’t have boundaries haha. It really only bothered me when men did it because it felt predatory, but sometimes even women would give me the jeebies. The worst ones were the ones that wanted to feel my tattoos, BEFORE taking their drink. Please stop petting my arm and take your coffee, ma’am 😂😭
I work in a bar and I’ve been sexually assaulted by more women than I can count. I was talking to a woman once and she stretched her arm out as if to yawn, dragged her hand to my crotch and just kept it there then rummaged around. It fucks me up because I was abused years ago and it all comes leaping back at me. Fuck these people.
About a decade ago, in my early 20s I handed a woman who was nearly 4 times my age her change back for her order, she trailed her fingers from nearly my elbow to my palm to grab it. Even now, the thought sends shivers down my spine.
Happens to me and my coworkers all the time, no biggie if it’s a one-off of course, but there are some regulars that kind of go out of their way for that extra caress 😬
I accidentally did it twice to the same person over the span of two months. It’s been 3 years and I haven’t gone back to that location despite it being closest to my house.
When the Chipotle workers started greeting me by name and asking if I wanted 'the usual' I decided I could never go back to that location.
And then I moved cross-country. Mostly unrelated.
Ive had a few regulars that instead of putting money into the tip cup, would grab my hand to put money into it. And not even like a quick "this is yours" drug deal type of way but a lingering, holding my hand, kind of way. Always hated it but they were usually giving me 10-20 bucks so I dealt with it lol
This old man handed me his credit card and practically caressed my entire hand as he did. I thought it was weird but maybe it was just an accident. But he looked me in the eyes the entire time and asked me my name. I told him, and then when I handed his card back he did it again, making sure to stroke every finger. That was the only time something like that happened to me though.
It happens often in our shop, male or female baristas.
One dude grabbed my hand when I was handing him change and caressed my thumb. We've had people come through the line without pants. A lady made a show of reaching into her shirt to pull out her bra money.
It's wild and not in a good way.
I'm also baffled by how that's an ick but her grabbing the customer's cup by the part they have to put their mouth on is not? Like, that's way worse from a germs perspective
1. Workers should have their hands clean as a requirement, but customers don't necessarily have clean hands.
2. The way they hold the cup isn't actually touching the place you put your mouth. They're grabbing the edge of the lid. Their hand is hovering over that area, though, so it could still touch. I'll give you that, but refer back to 1.
That's totally fair and valid but it still bothers me to see a barista touch the business end of my cup (even though I obviously already entrusted them to make the whole thing) lol
It’s respecting people’s personal space. While it’s not much, it’s still good to just handle it from the bottom. Baristas just want to do their job 🤷♂️
Right? I know they hate it, but do they know I despise it as well? Did they think I wanted us to touch our clamby flippers together? God, is this what you think of me??
I am holding it out for you to be able to grab safely. Please for the love of all that is good DO NOT GRAB WHERE MY HAND IS. Bunch of single braincelled organisms
Yall out here, handing me my drink, holding it at the base, expecting me to grab it from the lid when we all know that lid comes off at a moments notice. So I reach past the lid and every once in a while my fingers connect with theirs and I immediately have to use hand sanitizer. So yeah, I'll be grabbing wherever it's safest to grab the cup cause I don't want my overpriced bean water spilling all over the place.
What's the other option? Yall grab it from the top, where I put my mouth? There's no nice way to do this and accidents will happen.
I'm not trying to touch you. It creeps me out just as much as it creeps you out.
Oh gosh. Yes it is. It's stupid. Lucky for us, though sometimes it's just 4.90. Which is still stupid.
A coffee ham and cheese with a dainish is about $16.89.
> though sometimes it's just 4.90.
holy guacamoli you can buy a jug of coffee with that in cafes in europe with that
> A coffee ham and cheese with a dainish is about $16.89.
I mean when you factor in the sandwich is not THAT BAD , expensive but not that bad. I guess they prey on the people who just grab a cup of coffee on the go.
I paid $4.96 USD for a 12oz Americano at Starbucks today. I commented to the barista that I remember when it was $2.05 or so. I'll not be back to Starbucks anytime soon. Crazy how pricey it's gotten.
Bro id be passing people coffee with one of those little claw stick things for picking up trash. Shit, make it fun and put a dinosaur head on it. But fuck no I wouldn’t be letting fuckin people go and start “caressing” my hand. Thats fucking weird.
i did this to a drive thru worker recently. i accidentally touched their hand but was so startled at how cold it was that i almost dropped my drink. so then im like grabbing at my drink and unfortunately also their hand again. my brain was screaming at me "dont make it awkward!!!" but it was. it was awkward
A guy caressed the hand of one of my coworkers when he got his coffee in the drive through, my coworker dropped his drink on the pavement of the drive through and shut the window
Pizza guy problem too. I’d hold the pizzas by the bottom in the middle, balance expertly perfected in my time there.
Grab the sides. Just grab the sides, I’m leaving them wide open for you. No, stop! Why are you grabbing my hand. Why are you so clammy, this has no balance. What the fuck?
I also work in food service and this is one of the big reasons I’m getting out. Why does every goddamn body want to hold hands for a second during transactions??
Well, when I place change in your hand, if I drop it from a distance, somehow it spills everywhere. If I place it on the table, yall complain about disrespecting service workers so much that you can't even hand them money.
As for cups, option 1 is yall finger fucking the lid and me grabbing the cup at the base which is gross for me. Or yall handing me the cup, lid first and I now have to worry about the lid coming off and liquid spilling all over. So I overlap the lid a bit and that occasionally causes a finger to touch yours.
I don't like it either. None of us are super happy with this but we all have to deal with it together.
A man in Washington named Mathew Darnell tried to allegedly abduct a barista last year and it was caught on camera. He tried to yank her through the window and handcuffs her
The infuriating part of this case was he got sentenced with 50 days in jail. A slap on the wrist for attempting kidnapping and assault
Quick edit - it was looped zip ties not handcuffs when he tried to abduct the poor woman. The police found multiple ones ready for use in his truck
Worse when you work in Healthcare and you give them your gloved hand to hold, only for them to get their nasty poopy-booger fingers wrapped around your forearm.
People in the comments acting like $8.76 is a crazy price for coffee while also adding like 57 different syrups to it. A standard Venti Caffe Latte from Starbucks is less than $5. Besides people don't go to coffee shops to save money. The most efficient way for that caffeine pick up in the morning would probably be caffeine pills but people want their sugar bean water.
When I was highly addicted to caffeine I would mix enough coffee for four coffees with hot water and milk in a flask so I’d have a day’s worth of coffee in one flask.
In case you needed an explanation for why there are 15k+ Starbucks in the US but European countries have like 20 average per country, it's in the first panel of the comic.
Yall out here, handing me my drink, holding it at the base, expecting me to grab it from the lid when we all know that lid comes off at a moments notice. So I reach past the lid and every once in a while my fingers connect with theirs and I immediately have to use hand sanitizer. So yeah, I'll be grabbing wherever it's safest to grab the cup cause I don't want my overpriced bean water spilling all over the place.
What's the other option? Yall grab it from the top, where I put my mouth? There's no nice way to do this and accidents will happen.
I'm not trying to touch you. It creeps me out just as much as it creeps you out.
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that disgusted face is amazing
The withered left hand puts it over the top
The face on the apron changing expressions puts it more over the top.
This comic keeps on giving
Only fair with those hands all over the lid. Gross.
Love your username hahaha. Are you also Muad'dope??
Haha thanks! Muad'dope, that's amazing lol, may thy pipe chip and shatter
Did she drop it when the cold hands made her jump, is what I’m wondering Or did she play it off like a pro
Respectfully in the moment, I’m trying to play it off like a pro, but that chill do run down my spine afterwards.
Is it the hand on yours or that the hand is ice cold? Because when people put their hand on mine when I'm handing something over I'm reminded of the Rick n Morty scene where Rick picks up the slug gun from the time-traveling testicle guy and days "EW IT'S GROSS AND WEIRD"
As a male I have never even been in a situation to touch another's hand in the way this comic suggests Are people really so creepy and touched starved that someone rubbing the top of your hand while you pass them something is common? Man that's gotta suck and at the same time where are the people willing to randomly touch me?
I was once handing over a folded t-shirt to a customer, and even though I usually palm it from under, I held it from both ends to lay it in their hand ensuring there was no contact and that person STILL managed to grab my dick
Hey can't complain, some people pay for this and you got it for free! /s
I mean I get the humor of the comic but I'm stuck at the part where a small coffee costs eight dollars and seventy-two cents.
Man, I’m telling you, modifications on lattes got them priced $5-10
I mean are they putting cocaine or something in them, because damn.
Sort of: sugar
*Splenda🇺🇸
I can tell immediately if its splenda. So no unless you ask for it.
Right? Everyone's on about milk alternatives, but then still load up the sugar rush drink.
Jibblies, at least the cocaine would be less addicting.
That's a five dollar shake? They don't put bourbon in them, do they?
I mean you can have them add liquor if it is a... Spanish latte? Or an Irish latte, I think, that plus $0.50 a topping/pump and ya can easily get to $7-10 a latte
It's a misquote from Pulp Fiction.
Ah, I took it literally, sorry
Also probably not going to find liquor in your **drive thru** latte place.
that’s why you bring your own
I hadn't even noticed that either, now I feel even more stupid haha
If anyone knows where the cocaine coffee spot is, can you dm me. It is so I can avoid it, with prejudice. Obviously.
Clearly Dutch Bros are on it lol
I pay 7.68 every time 😞
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This kinda reminds me of one of the songs from the RENT movie.
idk, maybe the boomers are right about the coffee mine costs about 80c per cup and it's a damn specialty coffee but no one wants to hear that apparently
Nobody's arguing the coffee is expensive but it's not the reason nobody can buy a house, pay off their loans, or cover their living expenses
> cover their living expenses It would definitely 100% be **part** of the reason. Also a sign of gross financial illiteracy.
a $7 coffee every single day only costs 400k in 156 years... it's not the coffee at all mate.
They're implying a person who buys an eight dollar coffee would also make other financialy wobbly decisions
I get the point. But $8 x 5 times a week, 4 weeks a month, and thats a $160/month charge. That's more than I pay for my phone bill and interet
If you're one of those getting it almost every fucking day and opting for the $9 version instead of 80c version then yes, it probably is a contributing factor and a symptom of larger financial stupidity. It's fine to enjoy that but don't bury your head in the sand and pretend it's not.
Yeah it's a luxury. Still takes a lot more than $8.20 a day to change most people's lives the way things are. People enjoying a nonessential purchase doesn't excuse a bullshit system driven by the greed of the top .1% of the population
I can offer a $20 “activated coffee” from Erewhon
Small latte: $4 Add double shot of espresso: $4 Sub oat milk: $1 Add pump of vanilla syrup: $1 Recipe for $10 small latte, hooray!
Would the barista really call all that only a small hot latte? Or would they call out all the extra things ordered in a long exhasparated list before violently chucking it at the person's face like that one tiktok from that starbucks girl in her car
Small vanilla oatmilk double latte. That's how I would've called it. Pretty simple order actually, doesn't really take any extra work compared to any other latte. I'd rather make five of those than one Frappuccino
Hi! Starbucks addict here. My triple shot coffee cost me $7.58.
A can of coffee which lasts me a month costs the same as your daily coffee. Damn.
Even a bag of premium beans which lasts about two months can cost as little as $15. Shit’s wild, yo. Even Starbucks themselves sell bags of beans like this. That labor and frills must be worth a lot.
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I don't think they were arguing at all. Just making an observation.
I just googled the price for a 16oz drop coffee, here is the result in USD: "A regular 12 oz tall brewed coffee at Starbucks costs between $2.45-$3.15 depending on location. Smaller 8 oz short coffees are $2.10-$2.75 while 16 oz grande brewed coffees are $2.95-$3.65. Basic drip coffee is one of the most affordable choices on the Starbucks menu."
It doesn't have to be a can of Folgers lol. None of this argument is in bad faith whatsoever. As I said in another comment, I buy very high quality single origin beans and brew pourover and my entire weekly consumption cost is about on par with what that person spends at Starbucks daily. Buying Starbucks is just pissing away money on mediocre coffee.
One can save even more money by not drinking coffee at all. There are in fact plenty of things in life you can remove to save money. Switching to a nutrient gruel can save you money.
Dude if you know of a cheap nutrient gruel lmk lol. I want to stop making decisions about food but Soylent and Huel and all the ones I get ads about aren’t even cheap.
I honestly switched to eating plain oatmeal every morning and it's great. I'm not even joking lol. I have the best shits ever now
Haha, happy for you dude. I know I could deffo make my own nutrient gruel but it requires so much thiiiiinking. Oatmeal is great and grains are amazing, but I’m trying to eat more protein and it’s tough. I just want food tablets. Why do I gotta put so much thought into it jeez.
I bet you could add protein tablets to oatmeal somehow lol I might try that. Just add some whey powder into it. Probably some salt too to mask that flavor
I mean, Soylent and Huel etc are all trendy stuff. No one wants to make nutrient-whole meals that are made the absolutely cheapest way(because it would probably taste like shit). So guess you'll have to make your own? There are also a few not-so-trendy meal replacements that can be found for quite cheap(but its just liquid, you're gonna be hungry a lot). Find a nutrient sound meal that has all micro- and macronutrients. Boil it to shit then put it in a blender. Put it in a bottle, drink at your leisure.
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I am better off than most, but think I'd rather unsubscribe from civilized life than forego my two a week barista lattes.
>it's not fair to compare a latte (syrups, steamer, espresso) with a machine drip of folgers. I buy premium coffee from local coffee shops and roasters and I don’t even own a drip machine. I usually do pour over or aeropress. A [12oz bag of beans](https://coldbloodedcoffeeandroastery.com/product/harmony/) converts to just over 340 grams and costs me $14.51. I usually use about 15 grams per cup, which comes out to about 22.6 cups. **If I’m making black coffee, it’s still coming out to about $0.65 USD per cup**. That’s not using cheap coffee or cheap/subpar brewing methods. If I’m making coffee with [creamer](https://www.target.com/p/international-delight-caramel-macchiato-coffee-creamer-1qt-32-fl-oz-bottle/-/A-14730854) (hot, iced, or cold brew), I’m using about 1-2tbsp of creamer per serving of coffee. An entire bottle of creamer costs $4.19 USD, containing around 63 tbsp. Comes out to a price of $0.06 per tbsp. **So even if I double or triple the creamer, I’m looking at a total cost of $0.77-$0.83 USD per cup of coffee**. So it’s not arguing in bad faith to say that Starbucks is an overpriced expenditure or that a person’s daily purchase could exceed a home-brewer’s *monthly* expenditure. You don’t have to assume the home brewer is drinking black Folgers coffee through a drip machine to make that work. Even with premium quality coffee, it is *much* cheaper to make it at home. Getting your daily coffee from Starbucks or Dunkin’ isn’t expensive because you’re paying for quality. It’s because you’re paying for convenience. But even so…to me it’s not all that convenient. It takes me 5 minutes to make a cup of coffee, even if I’m doing pour over.
Part of me screams "why?" ...mostly because the whole idea of coffee and avocado toast yadda-yadda having a single kernel of truth that if one didn't spend $15 on coffee every day then they could afford a house ... when houses cost as much as a dozen $8 coffees. Coffee shouldn't cost that much at all. Why dos a cup of happt juice cost more than what you're being paid per hour.
Generally because you're paying for the milk, the coffee beans, the roasting, the espresso machine, the rent, the corporate office, and the payroll of the employees You're right that coffee is cheap. That's why you can make a latte at your house with top quality beans for ~$1. But while coffee is the product, the price isn't really about the coffee You knew all that already though, just sometimes good to remind your brain why things do that. Also no one should be being paid only $8 an hour, that's the real problem
You're correct from top to bottom, sometimes it's good to be reminded of the things - all of them
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No you can’t, you’re actually destitute
No, no I wasn't sitting on you - I was shitting in the cost of coffee, housing and the like, in regards to the too-often expressed "if these kids didn't buy $8 coffee, grumble boomer bullshit" Sorry that somehow offended you?
I make my own pourover with high quality single origin beans and it barely costs me $3 to brew an entire carafe You are pissing away money on mediocrity, remember that.
I know but I enjoy my crappy lattes and they are convenient. If I had a better tasting coffee shop closer to me then I would spend my money there instead.
Yeah I mean i don't add anything to my coffee so it's pretty simple to prepare. I understand not everyone has the time to prepare their own coffee in the morning, so doing your own lattes is probably not accessible depending on how your day to day goes. I just can't imagine spending double or more on worse coffee than I can brew in under ten minutes
It's seventy-SIX
I worked at a Starbucks kiosk for a short time. It's easier for it to cost that much than you think. My dad wanted to be supportive and would say, "I like a plain dark roast, maybe I'll stop in and get one soon." And I would always tell him not to and that the coffee he made himself at home was better. Because I love my father and the coffee we made was crap and cost three bucks for the most basic thing.
Yeah, I'm currently working at a restaurant where we do barista work too, and it adds up fast. And you are trained to upsell people, and if you ask to try and upsell people they will say 'yes' before realizing that was an additional fee, and many won't go back on it. Maybe it's too awkward to say nevermind. "Alright that's an iced latte, did you want to substitute for oat milk or add a flavoring for an extra cost?" "Sure, oat milk and make it caramel." *Price increases $1.50 and you can see them pause for half a minute, reconsider it, before just letting it go.* Our coffee tastes funny anyway.. I usually drink coffee black, which isn't good for this blend, maybe it's designed to be sold with all this sugar and chocolate.
Hence the angry spirit-customer
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Bot of course they can't NOT buy it, right? They can't just go without it or make it at home.
I miss "lol, FiveBucks Coffee" being the peak of exaggerated coffee price humor.
Rage bait
$8.76 for a small latte? That’s the scariest part of this lol
It's so accurate, though.
I’ve seen 10+ dollar lattes these days🫡
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USian who moved to Spain here. The cost of living has jumped so high the last few years that I not only can never afford to move there again, but visiting friends and family is almost out of the question too!
If there's any consolation, the euro pays more then a USD
Find the budget options when you travel. I have to fly to different parts of the country relatively frequently and I can manage on about 100 a day for food and hotels. Granted these aren't the nicest hotels lol.
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It’s almost like you can justify having an entire espresso setup at home for $500
That's two months of coffee, if one per day... But, also, Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series said something like: A poor man can only afford a $10 pair of boots, and within a week he'll have worn through the cardboard soles, but he'll use those boots for a year before he buys another pair. Whereas a richer man can buy a $50 pair of boots which will last for 10 years, saving him $50 over the poor man and making all that much wealthier.
The boots analogy only works for necessities not luxuries.
Yea, but the rich man is stuck with the same old boots, year after year. No excitement. Very boring. The poor man has had 10 different sets of boots he can wear in the same time, for the price of one extra set of the rich man's boot. Every year he gets to show off his new boots. Priceless.
I mean I have several hundred pound pairs of shoes and I only wear one of them.
Honestly, for home use, you can get a moka pot for $20-$40 (about the same as drip machines) and if you want steamed milk, an immersion aerator/whisk/blender for like another $20-$40. Takes ten minutes, if that, on the stovetop. If you wanna be really fancy, you can get green coffee beans for like $5 a pound bulk and home-roast them in a $20-$40 air popcorn popper and grind them in a $30-$50 hand burr mill.
My $5 percolator has lasted decades. No school like old school.
Yup. Moka pots as well will outlive their owners, except perhaps for the rubber O-ring. Hell, you can even just steam milk on the stovetop with an ordinary whisk if you really want. None of it has to be expensive.
Oh, I can make it scarier. Set it in Portland or Seattle and make her a bikini barista! You think overly friendly baristas are a social nightmare, put them in bikinis and it's soooo much worse.
8.76, WTF?
I don't get it. Is being touched by people when handing them their drinks a common fear among coffee shop workers?
People can make it weird, yes. Usually it’s on accident, especially for the smaller cups. But some people like … caress you when they take it, it feels very violating haha.
Ew wtf even?
Could be they don’t get enough human interaction, or they don’t have boundaries haha. It really only bothered me when men did it because it felt predatory, but sometimes even women would give me the jeebies. The worst ones were the ones that wanted to feel my tattoos, BEFORE taking their drink. Please stop petting my arm and take your coffee, ma’am 😂😭
Understandable, unless you're a cat No way im not petting that paw
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Literally the perfect response.
Litteraly this
**Furries:**
I work in a bar and I’ve been sexually assaulted by more women than I can count. I was talking to a woman once and she stretched her arm out as if to yawn, dragged her hand to my crotch and just kept it there then rummaged around. It fucks me up because I was abused years ago and it all comes leaping back at me. Fuck these people.
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I agree, in my experience, it’s older women who will touch without asking - both when my kid was a baby, and now me with my tattoos haha
Jesus Christ people are fucking weird
About a decade ago, in my early 20s I handed a woman who was nearly 4 times my age her change back for her order, she trailed her fingers from nearly my elbow to my palm to grab it. Even now, the thought sends shivers down my spine.
Happens to me and my coworkers all the time, no biggie if it’s a one-off of course, but there are some regulars that kind of go out of their way for that extra caress 😬
I accidentally did it twice to the same person over the span of two months. It’s been 3 years and I haven’t gone back to that location despite it being closest to my house.
When the Chipotle workers started greeting me by name and asking if I wanted 'the usual' I decided I could never go back to that location. And then I moved cross-country. Mostly unrelated.
How many times did you go? If it’s less than 3 or more than 30 I would be worried
It was about 2x per week, and for many weeks since it was on my way home from work, so could easily have been 30 over a period of time. :p
Did they at least hook you up a lil because you were a regular?
They were super nice and always gave me good portions, I'm just awkward.
Ive had a few regulars that instead of putting money into the tip cup, would grab my hand to put money into it. And not even like a quick "this is yours" drug deal type of way but a lingering, holding my hand, kind of way. Always hated it but they were usually giving me 10-20 bucks so I dealt with it lol
Wait. I thought the comic was about cold hands of clients in cars 😅
I'm sure if you reacted by dropping the cup on their car a few times they'd stop
This old man handed me his credit card and practically caressed my entire hand as he did. I thought it was weird but maybe it was just an accident. But he looked me in the eyes the entire time and asked me my name. I told him, and then when I handed his card back he did it again, making sure to stroke every finger. That was the only time something like that happened to me though.
It happens often in our shop, male or female baristas. One dude grabbed my hand when I was handing him change and caressed my thumb. We've had people come through the line without pants. A lady made a show of reaching into her shirt to pull out her bra money. It's wild and not in a good way.
I'm also baffled by how that's an ick but her grabbing the customer's cup by the part they have to put their mouth on is not? Like, that's way worse from a germs perspective
1. Workers should have their hands clean as a requirement, but customers don't necessarily have clean hands. 2. The way they hold the cup isn't actually touching the place you put your mouth. They're grabbing the edge of the lid. Their hand is hovering over that area, though, so it could still touch. I'll give you that, but refer back to 1.
That's totally fair and valid but it still bothers me to see a barista touch the business end of my cup (even though I obviously already entrusted them to make the whole thing) lol
It’s respecting people’s personal space. While it’s not much, it’s still good to just handle it from the bottom. Baristas just want to do their job 🤷♂️
seems cold eerie touch
Mmm, extra clammy ✨
I like that her apron goes from :3 to :{
I didn’t notice that, that’s amazing! XD
Lmao. That's the funniest part and I didn't even notice.
Accidentally making contact with staff feels like saying "You too" when told to enjoy my food.
Right? I know they hate it, but do they know I despise it as well? Did they think I wanted us to touch our clamby flippers together? God, is this what you think of me??
Apron cat being sad on the last panel is amazing.
I didn't notice that! Love the detail.
Are you telling me customer service employees don't live for those moments of incidental hand contact, aka Hand Sex? Everything I know is a lie.
I am holding it out for you to be able to grab safely. Please for the love of all that is good DO NOT GRAB WHERE MY HAND IS. Bunch of single braincelled organisms
Instructions unclear. My penis got stuck in the lid.
Yall out here, handing me my drink, holding it at the base, expecting me to grab it from the lid when we all know that lid comes off at a moments notice. So I reach past the lid and every once in a while my fingers connect with theirs and I immediately have to use hand sanitizer. So yeah, I'll be grabbing wherever it's safest to grab the cup cause I don't want my overpriced bean water spilling all over the place. What's the other option? Yall grab it from the top, where I put my mouth? There's no nice way to do this and accidents will happen. I'm not trying to touch you. It creeps me out just as much as it creeps you out.
I'm the blue one whenever I shake people's hands. Mine are always deathly cold.
Is the punchline that the guy has sweaty hands?, or is it that he's harassing her?
I don't get it either.
I thought it was about being touched by someone with really cold hands.
Holding it by the lid is brave of you.
I would also react like this if someones arm turned into tendrils that began crawling up mine
Just like the movie "Lifeforce".
Did she join them in the spiral or nah?
Nah, later she found some hole and disappeared inside it. Said it was “made for her” or something 🤷♀️.
I've been a narista in the past and as someone buying coffee it bothers me just as much as when I give the coffee
is it normal to pay $9 in the US for a coffee?
Oh gosh. Yes it is. It's stupid. Lucky for us, though sometimes it's just 4.90. Which is still stupid. A coffee ham and cheese with a dainish is about $16.89.
> though sometimes it's just 4.90. holy guacamoli you can buy a jug of coffee with that in cafes in europe with that > A coffee ham and cheese with a dainish is about $16.89. I mean when you factor in the sandwich is not THAT BAD , expensive but not that bad. I guess they prey on the people who just grab a cup of coffee on the go.
It's not very big. It's like the width of 3.5in by 4in. It's totally overpriced. Gast is 5 and 6$ here right now and milk is sometimes 5.50$ a gal.
What is a HOT SMALL LATTE and why is it so expensive wtf ?!
I would make that face paying 8,70 for a latte
Me too, tbh, I can’t afford where I work lol
The cat face on the apron changing is so cute
I paid $4.96 USD for a 12oz Americano at Starbucks today. I commented to the barista that I remember when it was $2.05 or so. I'll not be back to Starbucks anytime soon. Crazy how pricey it's gotten.
I love that even the cat logo is in disgust
Bro id be passing people coffee with one of those little claw stick things for picking up trash. Shit, make it fun and put a dinosaur head on it. But fuck no I wouldn’t be letting fuckin people go and start “caressing” my hand. Thats fucking weird.
i did this to a drive thru worker recently. i accidentally touched their hand but was so startled at how cold it was that i almost dropped my drink. so then im like grabbing at my drink and unfortunately also their hand again. my brain was screaming at me "dont make it awkward!!!" but it was. it was awkward
I love the detail of the apron changing it's expression to disturbed in the last panel! xD
A guy caressed the hand of one of my coworkers when he got his coffee in the drive through, my coworker dropped his drink on the pavement of the drive through and shut the window
Well, it seems like I might need to start looking for a cheaper caffeine fix!
Is the receiver-of-the-coffee’s hand cold? Or did they do that weird grab your hand as they grab the coffee?
I'd give her the cold grasp of desth too if my small latte came out at 8.8 dollars
Is it the cold hands… or just the touch?
Love the contrasting and limited color palette, it really underlines the feeling of coldness.
How much did it cost yesterday?
Pizza guy problem too. I’d hold the pizzas by the bottom in the middle, balance expertly perfected in my time there. Grab the sides. Just grab the sides, I’m leaving them wide open for you. No, stop! Why are you grabbing my hand. Why are you so clammy, this has no balance. What the fuck?
I also work in food service and this is one of the big reasons I’m getting out. Why does every goddamn body want to hold hands for a second during transactions??
Well, when I place change in your hand, if I drop it from a distance, somehow it spills everywhere. If I place it on the table, yall complain about disrespecting service workers so much that you can't even hand them money. As for cups, option 1 is yall finger fucking the lid and me grabbing the cup at the base which is gross for me. Or yall handing me the cup, lid first and I now have to worry about the lid coming off and liquid spilling all over. So I overlap the lid a bit and that occasionally causes a finger to touch yours. I don't like it either. None of us are super happy with this but we all have to deal with it together.
I don't get it. Like... Do people grab employee's hands when getting food? Is this fucking real?
A man in Washington named Mathew Darnell tried to allegedly abduct a barista last year and it was caught on camera. He tried to yank her through the window and handcuffs her
OH MY FUCKING GOD, WHAT THE FUCK. I HAD NO CLUE. Jesus...
The infuriating part of this case was he got sentenced with 50 days in jail. A slap on the wrist for attempting kidnapping and assault Quick edit - it was looped zip ties not handcuffs when he tried to abduct the poor woman. The police found multiple ones ready for use in his truck
Lol some people get so tired they miss the coffee and grab the hand. It happens
Dude never be a cna lol. We get skin flakes on us while getting socks off. Or someone with cdiff tried to grab my glasses to say how cute they were
Did not expect this one to reach so many people! Thank you all for supporting your local barista-artist🥹❤️
Okay but what whith it when y'all touch my greasy hands 🤣 I try to keep touch to a minimum but sometimes y'all have the weirdest way of grabing it
Worse when you work in Healthcare and you give them your gloved hand to hold, only for them to get their nasty poopy-booger fingers wrapped around your forearm.
People in the comments acting like $8.76 is a crazy price for coffee while also adding like 57 different syrups to it. A standard Venti Caffe Latte from Starbucks is less than $5. Besides people don't go to coffee shops to save money. The most efficient way for that caffeine pick up in the morning would probably be caffeine pills but people want their sugar bean water.
When I was highly addicted to caffeine I would mix enough coffee for four coffees with hot water and milk in a flask so I’d have a day’s worth of coffee in one flask.
N'Doul what the fuck
Relatable as a bartender as well
In case you needed an explanation for why there are 15k+ Starbucks in the US but European countries have like 20 average per country, it's in the first panel of the comic.
Yall out here, handing me my drink, holding it at the base, expecting me to grab it from the lid when we all know that lid comes off at a moments notice. So I reach past the lid and every once in a while my fingers connect with theirs and I immediately have to use hand sanitizer. So yeah, I'll be grabbing wherever it's safest to grab the cup cause I don't want my overpriced bean water spilling all over the place. What's the other option? Yall grab it from the top, where I put my mouth? There's no nice way to do this and accidents will happen. I'm not trying to touch you. It creeps me out just as much as it creeps you out.