Price of a Coffee.

Crazy alright. My limit is places less than 4 euro. If there are none left then that's the end of that expensive habit for me.

There definitely is a demand and profit because there are coffee shops sprouting up everywhere.

Coffee powder (not instant) is getting increasingly hard to get. Shop out of stock a lot lately

Just have the one cappuccino in the morning. Used to be 3.90 now 4.10

Coffee outlets are like rats. Never more than ten meters away from one.

Ponaire sell decent coffee, you'll pay around €30/Kg typically.

https://ponaire.ie/products/ponaire-indian-blend-coffee?variant=45322701570277

If buying in bulk say 30Kg/week you'll surely get that down to €25/Kg.

We'll assume every coffee is a double shot, you get about 70 shots per kilo. That's about 35c per coffee in terms of coffee costs.

So rises in wholesale price of coffee,even if it doubled might account for 17c.

In truth the 35c per coffee is likely overestimated and therefore the increase is even less than 17c.

€4 per coffee is a gouging.

Buy yourself an aeropress/mokka pot or whatever and make your own for 40C a cup or nice tea for a fraction of that.

Caffeine is best taken an hour or two after you wake up, when you have been outside for 15 mins plus and the sunlight wakes you up and resets your circadian rhythm.

Add in approx 17c for cup and lid.Most wholesalers doing beans at 20e per kg.

1kg of beans should get you around 50 double espressos so around 40c of the cup is the beans

The main cost drivers are always the wages of the person making the coffee, the rent of the premises, energy costs and tax

I think there's also a bit of conditioned behaviour from customers going on, coffee costs around €4 because that's what people are willing to pay

That's not to say that coffee shops are money printers but more that there's a desire for people who buy coffee to have it prepared in a somewhat complex, labour intensive and expensive process and they're willing to pay extra for it

Was in Milan recently €1.30 for an amazing cappuccino.

Kaffekapsellen's Garibaldi blend was €9.99 in for 1kg of beans, today it's €16.49. that's a 65% rise in 3 and ½ months.

As others have mentioned, issues such as poor harvests and rising demand have compounded price rises. It is rapidly approaching a stage where even making coffee at home is becoming quite expensive.

Still, when those big Trump tariffs kick in on Brazilian coffee? There'll be a surge in supply to us here unless the yanks want another 50% in their beans.

My local rugby club makes more revenue from selling coffee to parents of kids and people watching matches than the fully stocked bar makes. And that bar is busy plenty with matches, parties etc

Do you mean ground coffee?

Yes

True, petrol stations and other self serve coffee seen to just set themselves 50c or so below coffee shops

I'd believe it, heard about one petrol station that had to replace the machines for something like €30k and it paid for itself within a few months

Even in a recession people will pay for their luxuries. People still went to the pub or smoked during the last recession, just not as much

I'm surprised more people don't just get an espresso machine at home. They're expensive but worth it if you drink coffee regularly. I'd say mine has paid for itself 2-3 times by now and I only drink 2 coffees per day

One thing I spotted in France was they seem to serve Nespresso coffee in a lot of places.

They use machines that are kind of made up to look like a commercial espresso machines, but yoy judt put a capsule in and pull a lever and it does the rest

I also didn't see many dedicated coffee shops, more just cafes or bars that serve coffee along with everything else

I'd say it cuts down a lot labour costs a lot which helps keep the price down

I haven't seen many places selling filter coffee here, seems to have gone out of fashion pretty much