But $7 coffees aren't necessarily made by well-paid people. Most folks in suburban cafes aren't paid better than folks in a proper coffee shop, the kinds of places I quietly insist people should visit because I'm an obnoxious coffee snob.
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But the other thing these stories often ignore is that in the burbs, at least in Sydney, $7 coffees are normal while they're still around $4.50-$5 in the CBD. I don't know why this is because most burb coffee is utter swill made by people who don't care and drunk by people who also don't care.
One of Sydney's best coffee places charges $4.50 for a standard milk drink/long black at its flagship Marrickville cafe. It's way better than The Stinky Pig or whatever is around the corner who might charge $6.50 or $7 for burnt, sour coffee made with mid-beans, a dirty machine and watery milk.
To be fair, even if the beans were good, the general quality of burb baristas would mean they'd be butchered anyway, so they may as well buy vacuum packed supermarket beans from Aldi.
Anyway, suburban coffee is crap and a rip-off so stop paying $7 or at least find good coffee if you are paying $7.
TLDR: $7 coffees aren't necessarily good coffees because somebody in the chain has to care and if the customer doesn't care and they're prepared to pay it, then cafes will charge it. I guess my point is, $7 for a coffee may not be too much if everything is done right but it rarely is.
BTW, I'm not supporting cafe owners who bleat about having to put prices up because wages went up 3.5%. If you don't like employing people and paying them properly, don't run a business.
Every year their rent likely goes up 4%-plus and they never mention that in the usual cry-baby stories.
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Anyway, suburban coffee is crap and a rip-off so stop paying $7 or at least find good coffee if you are paying $7.
Every year their rent likely goes up 4%-plus and they never mention that in the usual cry-baby stories.