MYFOXNY.COM – How much are you willing to pay for a cup of joe? A gourmet coffee chain is betting you’ll pay up to $12 for a fine brew.
Cafe Grumpy has Brooklyn locations in Greenpoint and Park Slope. It also has a Manhattan location in Chelsea. It is part of a small, but growing, movement of coffee shops roasting their own beans. The company defends the steep prices, saying they are higher end coffees and take much longer to develop and process.
The cafes offer a changing selection of coffees. One current offering is called Nekisse. It is described as a “very clean, sweet, complex cup with tropical fruit notes of pineapple, kiwi and key lime.” Cafe Grumpy also offers specialty teas.
Huh, maybe your paying for the ambiance.
I measured it. 7 tablespoons per 2 cups of cappuccino. 255 tbs in a bag of coffee that costs $18. 7 into 255 is 36 time 2 is 72 cups. 72 goes into 18 bucks at .25 cents.
Makes it worthwhile.
http://freshcoffeebeans.com/
About 6 dollars a pound but you lose 30% by weight by roasting–so its not cheap. But fun to do at least once.
I get 6 pounds at a time to get the break on shipping.
Java Joe’s in Albuquerque sells really good coffee, at $2.50 for a good sized brewed cup with free refills. There’s none of that “venti” snobbery, and the coffee doesn’t taste burned either (yes they roast their own beans). Plus, it’s only about 3 blocks from where I live. They do the espresso thing too if you like that, but I’ve always liked their regular brewed coffee.
Skeptic..
I hope you arnt a pencil..
But that cost would change depending on the Amount and How fast you want it..
USPS, could probably do it in UNDER 6lb packets around $7-15
At $12 per cup, I hope they have a great WiFi connection, at least one refill and maybe a backroom where the barista will blow you once for every 12 cups purchased.
I’m not a real fan of Starbucks (they are so proud of their roasting but they usually taste scorched to me) but I think they’ve pretty much hit the top price for what most consumers will pay. Isn’t that why they’ve expanded into food? New profit stream?
$12 coffee? If they’re opening on Wall Street and the barista is particularly attractive and skilled in the back room, they might be successful. On the other hand, people said Starbucks was overpriced and would fail at $4.
There’s no accounting for some people’s taste in this wonderful beverage. Here in Thailand, you can get a cup of Thai-style coffee on the street for under a US dollar. Made with sweet condensed milk. Not to my taste. But there are lots of coffee shops up to and including Starbucks.
Actually, I’m in Laos right now and the French have left a lovely coffee tradition behind. Almost any restaurant will serve you a pretty great, thick, dark cup of juice from locally sourced beans. Particularly good with your morning baguette (dunking is perfectly acceptable). That and a couple of eggs will set you back a couple of dollars with one, maybe two refills. Best of all, due to government currency restrictions – NO Starbucks!
Somehow I can’t help but look down on anyone willing to pay $12 for a cup of coffee. It is really difficult to have anything but disdain for such a fool.
All that stuff will give you “ball cancer”. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
#27 Kittyburger: Nonsense, my dear. All things in moderation. Coffee has been shown to cut the risk of diabetes by up to 50% depending on the amount consumed. Drinking a couple of cups per day has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer by around 25%. And if Parkinson’s disease runs in your family, three or four cups a day can cut your risk by up to 70-80%!!!
Got a migraine? Drop a couple of aspirin and wash them down with a strong cup of coffee. Voila! Headache meds often contain aspirin, acetaminophen and caffeine. Next time you feel a little asthma attack coming on, take your meds and sit back with a nice hot cup of java.
In fact, for most people (i.e. those without other medical problems) coffee is shown to be healthful and a nice safe stimulant.
There is an association between testicular cancer and coffee but it is pretty tenuous. Sometimes, coffee can be contaminated with a toxin called ochratoxin which has been associated with liver and kidney tumors and, very rarely, testicular hyperplasia and lowered sperm counts. Interestingly, ochratoxin is more likely to be found in your morning bacon than in your coffee. Personally, I think I’ll drink more coffee instead of eat more bacon. Oh, hell. I’ll have both, please!
By the way, Kittburger: How many kitties does it take to make a decent burger? Make mine a bacon cheese kittyburger and a cup of coffee. No fries: those things will kill you.
I consider myself to be a coffee afficionado. I know that Arabica beans make delicious coffee and Robusta beans make the crappy coffee found in cafeterias. Being a purist and eschewing additives I prefer to drink mine black. Having consumed coffee from every major retailer, I have never tasted any coffee which has “tropical fruit notes of pineapple, kiwi and key lime.”
>> Benjamin said, on May 4th, 2010 at 10:47 am
>> I am not paying that much for coffee. I will switch to tap water first.
Here in Portland, our tap water is FANTASTIC. We also have Benson Bubblers which dispense free, ever running delicious water.
Yet, you see people walking around with over-priced plastic bottles of water probably filled with inferior tap water elsewhere.
These same people might go for a $12 cup of coffee!
>> bobbo,
>> Can’t really tell the difference.
Has anyone tried the “Foldgers switch” on you?
I’m with you… I can’t really tell the difference between premium and ultra-premium or whatever.
I can tell the difference between cheaper brands that come in the big cans and the better beans they sell in bulk. But that’s about it.
(The same for beer and sodas. I can usually tell the cheap from the premium but that’s it.)
That being said, I once had an international coffee buyer as our house guest for about week. (Not Starbucks) I expected him to say the same thing about coffee all being the same but Starbucks was his clear favorite!
It PO’d him because Starbucks would buy-up the best beans before he could get to them!
>> spsffan said, on May 4th, 2010 at 11:13 am
>> McDonald’s has better coffee than most of these places. And, it’s cheap.
Maybe it’s regional. The McDonald’s standard drip coffee here in Portland is only a little cheaper than the Starbucks “tall” and not nearly as good, IMHO. The “tall” here is usually well under $2.
http://rockymountainroastery.com
Self-serve of the cup-of-the-day, roasted on site, $1.00 American.
1 lb of one of the many blended coffees: between $10 and $16, depending on how much Kona they throw in.
The baristas know how to make espresso and the roaster is a master. The “atmosphere” is 1st college apartment meets a really good bicycle shop.
Not an ad, just a plug for my coffee shop.
Of course the lap dance is free.
Gone is that good ol’ 50 cent bottomless cup of coffee, served by a big busty waitress named Doris, at the counter of a little roadside diner. Now that was real coffee…
I have speculated, from time to time, that perhaps some people have forgotten what good coffee tastes like…
gorilla coffee, Milk or others in BK in the article listed charge basically the same as sbucks for normal big fresh cup of coffee.
I never notice the exact price but know it can’t be more that $5 for the scone and joe they hand me change.
Rip yes. BUT must say Sat AM when i feels like a truck is on my face due to Friday night… gorilla works. It must be spiked. I practically can skip coffee Sunday!
Maxwell House had a sale on the south seas blend. . Six bucks for the big can. . Two cups from my Bund and the rest went in the trash. . Just proves some people have more money than brains. . . or taste buds.
Ah, New York City, where thousands and thousands of financial industry swindlers, er, I mean “hard workers” have to have _something_ to spend their multi-million dollar bonuses on. And in the true American spirit, thousands of people & businesses rise to the challenge! In “the town so nice they named it twice,” I’m sure you can spend any amount you can name on about anything. For example, want to spend $6000 for a hotel room for a single night? You have your choice of dozens, if not hundreds. And so on.