So, today I paid close to $7 for a cafe latte! Wasn’t even that good….
What’s The Most You’ve Paid for a Latte?
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Children's menu?
$7 for a large flat white from the cafe I go to maybe once a week. They make excellent coffees, though, and roast their own award-winning beans.
this.
$7 is going to be the norm soon if it isn't already - green bean prices are through the roof across the world now, plus the cost of the cafe running their roasting machine, maintenance, staff & utilities cost…
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Definitely. The Aus govt has a lot of power over green bean prices.
Unfortunately my wages are not keeping up with Coffee inflation so the cafe owner will need to trim costs in other areas to compensate for the reduction in coffee sales volumes if they want to stay in business.
When I was on holiday, around $12 AUD is the norm in Copenhagen for mediocre coffee. Some places were around $15 AUD.
When I was on holiday, around $12 AUD is the norm in Copenhagen for mediocre coffee. Some places were around $15 AUD.
I heard everything in Norwegian countries costs heaps. $12AUD actually sounds cheap. I was hearing like $20+ just to sit and have a coffee (it costs more to sit). I don’t remember the country though.
I think it’s because they care about the environment. carbon something?
Nah I dunno. I spent a lot of time in Sweden, the prices were quite similar to what I am used to paying in Brisbane. Denmark just across the water was really really expensive. Did not have any issues finding places to sit though.
ok it was a recent Japanese vlog I was watching with subtitles. but right now yen and AUD is 1:1 so I based it on that. she said she thought it was very expensive and cost her 2000+ yen. maybe they didn’t know where they were going and just sat at a expensive place.
just returned from copenhagen today, coffee tastes shit there.
tried at multiple cafes including juno , its over priced like crazy, have paid 10-12$ at most of the cafes .
I think I paid $8 at a festival some years ago…pre-covid. I don't buy at cafes much.
At home I make it around 70c for the beans and maybe 90c for milk…so $1.60 or so. Glad I bought a machine!
That's a lot of milk and beans for one coffee.
Why? Generous budgeting here…but a triple at 22g of beans for $30 a kilo is not terrible…that's your 70c (or close). Maybe you go a double at 16 or 17g It's a latte, so add 300ml of milk to that at $6 for 2l and you're looking at 90c for milk.
Ok…probably got the milk wrong there, but I know people who like their lattes big. We probably should be looking at sub 200ml of milk (but there will be wastage - so let's call it 200ml)…60c for milk then. Better? I can make you a double shot with that instead…I would use 17g likely…so that gets your beans down to 51c…so $1.11 for your trimmed down latte. I probably wouldn't take it smaller than 240ml though…otherwise we're getting down to smaller drinks.
Not sure why I was neg'd on this. Fairly realistic estimate I thought. Really depends on your latte definition though. Personally I'm having my white in a 'larger' 300ml mug of a morning, with triple shot around 40-60ml depending on how the mood is taking me. I'm topping that with textured milk, so it's probably 200ml going into the pitcher to do that, and some wastage afterwards that I'll give to the kid (or down myself). I like to use A2…I find it textures well, but that's over $6 for 2l - you can do it cheaper.
I would hope cafes pay less for their beans and milk than I do. Presume most of their cost is in staff and other expenses - not actual beans. You can buy cheaper beans of course. $30-ish a kilo is not outrageous though, and I find there's decent quality around at that level. You can pay two or three times for something more premium if you want.
Depending on how much you care about your coffee, and how strong you like it, you could probably go as low as 20-30 cents per cup, using the cheapest beans and the cheapest milk. I guess I'm averaging about 80 cents-$1 per cup though.
What he's really making is coffee flavoured milk.
Pre covid prices are long gone.
So is me buying my coffee from a cafe. So that $8 is probably the most I've paid.
I have bought flat whites since…but they've all been cheaper.
Yeah, ignoring your milk estimate, the ~70c cost for beans is pretty reasonable, considering people will pay anywhere between $15-60/kg for a decent-good bag of beans. Heck, it's even more if you factor in 'wasting' a few shots dialling in each new bag.
$0. And the long black i drink… Airjo beans on special, in my own machine :)
You'd have to include the cost of beans and machine to that, so $0 isn't right.
Nah. You just write it off as a work expense. It's just written off.
That's not how it works David!
It's just written off.
Write it off what?
I have never drunk a latte, so I will stay with $0.
So you have never paid for a coffee then?
Maybe I'm missing something but I'll never understand that. I've done the whole V60 $20 Geisha and it just leaves me wildly underwhelmed. I can produce extraordinary filter with a Moccamaster and a different single origin each month for a fraction of the price.
like with anything else in the world, price doesn't ALWAYS correlate to quality. I have also paid more for bad coffee, and I've paid less for good coffee. The point I am trying to make is that yes, some coffee does cost more than what people have come to expect and yes it is still worth it (for me).
Lol wtf, try to justify blowing $20 for a cup of coffee all you want… There's a ceiling for how good a coffee can be, and I'm sorry to tell you that that ceiling quality coffee doesn't enter the double digits.
sigh
everyone has their own opinion on what they are willing to pay for certain things.One could argue that there is a ceiling to how good a TV can be but people still fork out more $$ for a new model every year… or a phone.. or a car.. a bottle of wine… a steak…
You don't have to pay it if it doesn't represent value to you. 'Telling' someone else though that their choice is wrong though? nah…
Weird flex but okay
7$ now at my local
I refuse to pay for a coffee with a 6 in front of it. Melbourne for ref.
What about a 7?
Nope. $59 max.
$12+ in Switzerland (expensive cities, taxes, poor exchange rate), and similar in the USA from Starbucks (expensive anyway, and a poor exchange rate). I think Seoul was also pretty expensive but that was 20+ years ago. HK also probably $8ish or so a few years ago. Cheapest was Istanbul: great traditional Turkish coffee for less than 1 Aussie Dollarydoo, or maybe $1.50 for a great milk-based coffee (exchange rates favourable this time)
$12. XL 600ml cup with 4 shots of espresso.
$5 around Sydney Chinatown area - competitions keep the price low.
competition
Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms near Townsville does a Kopi Luwak latte for $50. Haven't tried one yet
Market Lane coffee was the first place I paid over $5 for a small coffee, many years ago. Not sure what they charge now, never went back.
I should have realised it was going to be expensive when I tried to order a skinny latte to be told they only have full fat organic milk. It was the wrong coffee for that kind of milk though, couldn't cut through the richness of the milk. Seems an espresso only place, but I like my cow juice and caffeine first thing in the morning.
$10 for a hot chocolate at the Westin pre-Covid. I didn't think it would cost that much so just ordered without seeing the price list.
Don’t know if it’s worth ten dollars, but it’s pretty flipping good.
$0
About $7
Double shot large zymil latte
These days only visit cafe if I’m meeting with client.Otherwise it’s old faithful blend 43, 3-4 table spoon with a dash of boiling hot water.
3-4 tablespoons of Blend 43
RIP in peace Jimothy
50 dirams in Dubai 2013 (roughly A$16) for 2 predictably bad coffees.
We'd just got into the city from the Airport, off an overnight flight with a baby that cried the entire time, so the smallest note we had was a 50.
Paid cash at a busy table service cafe and never saw any change.
We were too tired to be able to remember who our server was to chase it up.what's a latte?? 😂
just give me single or double shot black with no sweetener/sugar please. I love the bitter water flavour.
I remember recently walking into a starbucks because I was in a rush and had no other options. I ordered a large plain black coffee to go. the worker had trouble understanding exactly what I wanted and I swear every single person lining up in the store was silently judging me (you know that staring at ground/phone, then up at you for a second, then down, every single person in line was doing that to me). like wtf this person came to starbucks and got THAT?!
$6
I think my iced latte is $5.80 and he puts in a double shot. I don't have any cream etc.
$20 in China in 2016. The coffee shop was barren. Guess they were trying to be edgy with a western drink. The coffee was awful which should've been expected in a country of tea drinkers.
Why pay that? Every Jamaica Blue was empty 24/7 and made drinkable coffee?
haha you don't know how close to the mark you are
Zero.
I drink cappuccinos, with the occasional macchiato or espresso.
About $20-25 I think when I was there, I didn't pay for it though. You could also smoke in the palace while drinking your gold coffee. They also have the bathrooms with real gold fittings.
The Emirates Palace Golden Cappuccino at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi costs around $32. The price is primarily due to the 23-karat gold flakes that adorn the cappuccino's foam. The coffee is served with dark chocolate discs and fresh dates.
I rarely buy coffees at cafes because they're invariably too weak. Tastes either watery, or is barely distinguishable from hot milk. I mean, I'm not saying I'm better than a barista, but I know what I like. I'm not paying >$5 for a cup of hot milk.
I too find most cafés make weak coffee. Very irritating to bupay good money for warm milk. Makes me sleepy.
OP are you in VIC and copped public holiday surcharge? $7 for a regular (?) coffee is expensive IMO.
I'm no coffee snob so usually happy with $2 Coles Express, 7-11 or whenever Macca's have coffee deals on the app.
Yes in Vic. Copped an undisclosed 20% public holiday surcharge!
20%! I feel your pain…
stop drink coffee at $10 to $7 per cup now just drink at home
$150, but it was supposed to come with a happy ending
Even an extremely average Costa coffee at a servo in England is like $9. RIP if you want an extra shot and oat milk. We should probably be paying more
Tree fiddy.
$10 in Reykjavik last year
$20 in Maldives.
I've paid $7 once in Melbourne, that's with oat milk, credit card and weekend/public holiday surcharge. Now that it's $5-6 for a medium I rarely buy coffee at cafes any more.
I buy my own green beans and roast them myself (usually middle of the day when solar is covering the power as well), they have gone up about 50% in the last 3 years, but at ~$15 per/kg it still costs me very little to make coffees at home.
About 10 years ago I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. I got a hot chocolate from a machine, it filled up maybe a quarter of the cup. Assuming something went wrong, I pressed the button again and got another quarter of a cup.
I got charged €12. €6 per hot chocolate, and the cashier accused me of trying to steal a second hot chocolate, which I suppose I was. I still get a little bit annoyed about it when I think of it.
Still far cheaper than a pint and involves more skill. Doesn't make ugly people better looking however.
$26 at the hotel I stayed in Hong Kong, made the $17 I paid in a Tokyo mall look cheap. My local @ $4.60 is better than either.
We studied the coffee business when I was doing my Masters - it's an interesting industry. Yes, input costs are rising but the profit margins are (usually) incredible. Some areas can get oversaturated with outlets and dry up profits but coffee shops in strategic locations can make insane money. Coffee and airport parking are two industries that you'd want to be involved in if you had the capital.
Paid 5 Euro for a tepid tea once, 20 years ago. Got a free chocolate coin though, the coin was huge.
Presumably this was a large or extra large latte? Once you’re at that size of latte you’re really looking at a warm coffee flavoured milkshake.
Each to their own but I don’t really get the large latte as a drink.
A small flat white should be less than $5 and is more likely to taste good.
SnoozeAndLose on 05/11/2024 - 14:19 Comment score below threshold.
