In the Newark, Ohio area, we have about a dozen "Coffee Shops." How and when did that happen?
I remember when it was 5 cents a cup, free refills. You sat down at the table, and instantly, a cup of coffee was in front of you. Not too far from here, in what was a small bank building, a coffee shop, not a franchise one, privately owned, and in the morning there will be a long line of cars going through their drive in window, and a parking lot full of cars .... people inside .... drinking coffee. I have never been in it so I have no idea what all they sell, maybe drugs, I don't know, I just know they are often quite busy.
When did we quit eating breakfast at home. Dad and the kids sitting around the table, Mom doing the eggs and the bacon and the toast. I've seen that on TV anyway.
I too have payed big bucks for a cup of coffee. Krogers has them, that's a grocery store or super market, there is one in our local hospital. When my wife gets her "testing" done I sit and wait downstairs, often get a cup of coffee and a muffin .... the best part of a five dollar bill has bit the dust. The coffee is good, but still, just a cup of coffee, hot water with little to no flavor, but, a dark color.
I guess it is just another example of advertising and marketing .... a status symbol to have that paper cup with the cardboard thing around it so the fingers don't get burned. Oddly though, I have read where the guy who started Starbucks feels that to thoroughly enjoy coffee it should not be too hot. Then why does he sell HOT coffee. ....... because you .... sip it ...... McDonalds the same thing, they even got sued for selling too hot coffee, a women burned her lips or something. That took guts, also, order a cup of hot coffee and then sue because it is too hot .... Yes, we are a great country, going down the proverbial tubes, but a great country ....................
