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Motronic posted:How is this still a thing? I would have expected "fancy coffee" poo poo to be well back into super niche where it came from again by now. This was in Madison Wisconsin in the mid 2010s, so a few years ago, in more ways than one.
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Democratic Pirate posted:It may have killed cafes, but I wonder if working from home turned more people on to better coffee. A bag of fancy beans may cost more than free crappy coffee, but per day it’s way cheaper than even a medium black coffee at Starbucks. Yeah, I had always thought the home market was where this was going back to. I mean I'm one of those weirdos that likes nice coffee, but I loathe dealing with the people in cafes that actually serve it.
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Motronic posted:Yeah, I had always thought the home market was where this was going back to. I mean I'm one of those weirdos that likes nice coffee, but I loathe dealing with the people in cafes that actually serve it. I still work in R&D for the largest coffee company in the world and there's no indication this is happening. At-home purchasing is back to pre-pandemic levels and coffee shop traffic is nearly back as well.
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I still work in R&D for the largest coffee company in the world and there's no indication this is happening. At-home purchasing is back to pre-pandemic levels and coffee shop traffic is nearly back as well. I have no doubt coffee shop traffic will rebound.....I'm talking about places with "national award winning barristers", or actually those that think having such is any sort or draw to 99% of your potential customer base......the whole exhausting performative type cafes, many of which I've been to exactly once in various west coast locations that I've stayed. Or maybe not. Maybe there are markets where these still work. My point is I thought it would be over by now, pandemic or not.
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Motronic posted:I have no doubt coffee shop traffic will rebound.....I'm talking about places with "national award winning barristers", or actually those that think having such is any sort or draw to 99% of your potential customer base......the whole exhausting performative type cafes, many of which I've been to exactly once in various west coast locations that I've stayed. Sorry, I should have clarified, that's coffee shops across-the-board, not just large chains. It's yet to be seen if it's a rebound or a lasting trend, but consumers are still hungry for the third wave shops, no pun intended.
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you can raise 4.5 million for a startup based upon going to plutocrat school and not making GBS threads your pants
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Motronic posted:I have no doubt coffee shop traffic will rebound.....I'm talking about places with "national award winning barristers", I'm glad they found work after dropping out of law school!
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Motronic posted:I'm talking about places with "national award winning barristers", or actually those that think having such is any sort or draw to 99% of your potential customer base......the whole exhausting performative type cafes, many of which I've been to exactly once in various west coast locations that I've stayed.
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HEY GUYS JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I DO NOT DRINK COFFEE
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I'm glad they found work after fixed
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When is Tether supposed to be in more legal trouble, and take various coin exchanges and currencies down when it fails?
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Grem posted:HEY GUYS JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I DO NOT DRINK COFFEE We get it, you're a Mormon.
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All I can tell you is that living in Melbourne would be BWM for me not because a tiny house costs over 1M but because I would not be able to stop myself from going broke by drinking the local coffee like a true boomer's millennial. I don't know what it is about Melbourne's coffee but it was amazing.
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Thanatosian posted:This is me, 100%. The best coffee is free coffee. Agreed. Working from home, I try to buy decent stuff. Though that often defaults to "whatever's on sale that doesn't taste awful." At work, whatever's in the packet that has caffeine and can easily be prepared is fine. I just want to stay awake.
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I'm making my own cold brew lately with Costco beans and a grinder I bought, and it's hilarious how BWM I could still be by buying beans or grounds from local ridiculous fancy artisinal places. Like, $20 for an 8oz bag and I'd end up spending like $2.50 a cup to make my own stuff!!
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Motronic posted:How is this still a thing? I would have expected "fancy coffee" poo poo to be well back into super niche where it came from again by now. Are cicerones still a thing?
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I always catch up on this thread when it goes on the weirdest loving tangents.
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https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1378018656999903239?s=21 That's true in this country, but he's way off on the pricetag.
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Martman posted:I'm making my own cold brew lately with Costco beans and a grinder I bought, and it's hilarious how BWM I could still be by buying beans or grounds from local ridiculous fancy artisinal places. Like, $20 for an 8oz bag and I'd end up spending like $2.50 a cup to make my own stuff!! Coffee is one of the weirdest "luxury" things people rip on as a symbol of extravagant waste. The gap between poo poo coffee and great coffee (if its even available) isn't even going to be discernible to most people and the prices aren't really that different. Even buying fancy expensive roast beans isn't going to mean poo poo unless you know how to prepare them perfectly. That's why I buy the 64 oz jars of instant coffee from Sams club for $8 and get ~200 cups off coffee's worth from it.
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Thinking that your typical NASA employee is going to leave the office for coffee is BWUE (bad with understanding engineers)
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pentyne posted:Coffee is one of the weirdest "luxury" things people rip on as a symbol of extravagant waste. I think this used to come from when it used to be really fashionable for right-wing people to rip on espresso drinks & coffee shops because they were kind of European and at first were only in big, left-wing cities. But Starbucks is almost everywhere now in America, so I don't think this is so true anymore. Yeah, maybe it is sort of silly to be into craft coffee, but it's really not that expensive compared to many luxury items.
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You all say the best coffee is the free coffee but my work is a quarter cup of folgers grinds per pot. The only positives I can give it is that is both hot and wet. I think my favorite bwm coworker was the one who didn't like this work coffee, so he bought a keurig and then filled it with folgers pods... And bottled water.
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It's me, I'm the guy who goes to Starbucks a couple times a week just to buy their dark roast drip coffee. It's fine to me, I'm only pissed off if it's cold. I buy the Costco organic ruta maya and use a pour over at home but I honestly don't prefer one over the other, they're just different. The real BWM thing is that they raised their prices and gutted their rewards so I'm paying over $3 for a large coffee now.
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Freely available coffee is one of the best gwm investments that any company can make imo
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OctaMurk posted:Freely available coffee is one of the best gwm investments that any company can make imo 
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OctaMurk posted:Freely available coffee is one of the best gwm investments that any company can make imo Over jn the corporate thread I have called it the foundation of American capitalism.
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My office now uses the same every day coffee I use at home (Folgers in the red tub) and somehow the stuff I brew at home tastes 1000x better. I’m not sure how they manage to gently caress it up so bad, especially when the water they use is also filtered and mine is right from the tap. I only go into the office once a week currently but I just bring it from home now. On weekends I do fresh ground beans from a local roaster (BWM).
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honda whisperer posted:You all say the best coffee is the free coffee but my work is a quarter cup of folgers grinds per pot. My old job was government, we all had to chip in for the coffee or rotate buying a can and filters. One cheap rear end would only buy Chase & Sanborn which is mostly floor sweepings and pipe trap clean out debris near as I could tell.
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i used to work at a place that did the whole yadda yadda free food thing only the nontechnical peeps were 80% health nuts and ex-athletes cuz of what the company did so i got a look into a world of expensive snacks that tasted terrible and increasingly weird 'healthy' substitutes for coffee at least it was other peeps money bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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canyoneer posted:https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1378018656999903239?s=21 quote:
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catspleen posted:My old job was government, we all had to chip in for the coffee or rotate buying a can and filters. One cheap rear end would only buy Chase & Sanborn which is mostly floor sweepings and pipe trap clean out debris near as I could tell. My dad worked at a government facility that ran 24/7 and the amount of coffee they went through, in hindsight, was astounding. As a child, all I knew was that I had an endless supply of Chase & Sanborn coffee cans to keep things in.
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At work we have some decent "espresso beans" and a coffee machine that grinds a small batch of beans fresh for every cup.Not bad at all. At home, it's Trader Joe's Bay Blend which is dark roasted, oily, dank beans. I grind them fresh, so every new pot is just pure dark coffee love.
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At work I've had an industrial coffeemaker where there were pot-sized individually packaged portions of Green Mountain French Roast at one place and at my current office there was a Keurig with assorted K-cups (usually the generic Solimo kind and some kind of flavored options) and I'd always go for the latter by the "free coffee is the best kind of coffee" mantra. When we go back to in-person stuff I want to suggest just getting a communal drip machine because there are probably going to be 8-10 people there tops in a given day and it would cut out the waste from the K-cups, but that feels like the kind of suggestion that implicitly volunteers me to be the person who keeps track of coffee supplies and cleans it out.
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:My office now uses the same every day coffee I use at home (Folgers in the red tub) and somehow the stuff I brew at home tastes 1000x better. I’m not sure how they manage to gently caress it up so bad, especially when the water they use is also filtered and mine is right from the tap. For the answer, ask yourself how often they wash the coffee pot, filter basket, and everything else that comes in contact with stale coffee.
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Space Gopher posted:For the answer, ask yourself how often they wash the coffee pot, filter basket, and everything else that comes in contact with stale coffee. Yeah IMO most of the benefit from the manual, more laborious pour-over coffee gadgets is that you tend to wash the crud off of them them more often than a normal drip coffee machine.
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How does the BWM thread feel about my preferred morning coffee machine, the Aeropress?
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My wife and I use a ninja coffee bar for several years and I really love it. Biggest thing to me isn't all the features but how easy it is to keep clean vs all the other ones I've used. Recently a gasket went out and it was leaking. So instead of trying to replace it i just wanted to fix it. In the time it took me to figure out the replacement gasket, get it, and install it, I probably could have just bought a new one with all the $$ we burned going to dunkin every morning instead. Especially if you factor the cost of the replacement gasket.
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Space Gopher posted:For the answer, ask yourself how often they wash the coffee pot, filter basket, and everything else that comes in contact with stale coffee. The English make this into a feature, as tea urns are renowned for the district taste they build up. That said, I'm entirely sure that giving out free coffee at any workplace pays for itself with productivity and loyalty several times over.
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Unglazed Chinese tea pots are intended to absorb oil from the tea. Well used ones can be very valuable.
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The best way to build up political goodwill in an office environment is to be the person who gets the communal coffee going each morning or the person who brings in breakfast tacos/donuts on Fridays.
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