Lawrence

Waitrose, like Fairtrade are the masters of doing just enough to corner the "I do really care, but not enough to use independent purveyors" Why Waitrose shoppers feel the need to blab on all holier than thou about their commitment to provenance and ethical production is beyond me. That extra 50p pays for marketing while flicking a few pennies at the hedgerows. Coffee bean costs are frankly irrelevant, milk less so, but it's staff wages and rent etc that really dictate prices. Why cafes should buy the best coffee available and advertise the fact Cost of s*** beans ?8 per 1kg Cost of awesome beans ?19 per kg Working on 7gram per shot you get 142 shots per kilo Cost of s*** beans in cup = 6p Cost of awesome bean =13p Relate these costs to gross profit and you may wonder why any independent cafe cheaps out on the burnt beans. To the OP- You think BM is expensive? Surely only relating to your organic, fairtrade made at home garbage from Waitrose, rather than coffee street prices?

Three people are paying the bill, it's ?30, split 3 ways. ?10 each. ?30 Total After paying, the waiter returns and says he over charged by ?5. Dave says "Thanks, keep ?2, just give us a pound each" The waiter pockets the ?2 and gives each diner ?1. Thus they paid ?9 each. So, ?9 each, 3 x 9 = ?27, the waiter kept ?2 27 + 2 = ?29 Where is the missing pound?