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I'm not a coffee drinker. Nothing religious or dietary, I just haven't been able to acquire a taste for it. So I don't know enough about it... I need your help!
We're starting up a big box hardware store, outside food concession stand. We're going to do quality hot dogs, specialty style hotdogs, gourmet sausages, and gyros. A hot dog stand, but with a gourmet twist. Brand name and Premium soft drinks, Brand name and Premium chips, quality local and national brand fresh bakery desserts, etc.
For our coffee, I have a simple, but fun question for you coffee drinkers:
Would you prefer a large national brand, canned, pre-ground, fresh brewed, plain old standard cup of coffee...
12oz for $.75?
Or,
Would you prefer a specialty, premium roast, fresh ground, fresh brewed, "gourmet" cup of plain coffee...
12oz for $2.25?
What do you think? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Please give me your opinions, as well as any thoughts you have along this line too. All input is hugely appreciated!
THANK YOU!!!
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I'm a coffee drinker I'll take either one.
Probably go with good gourmet stuff first but I'm not too choosy.
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rainshadow1:
No way am I going to pay $2.25 for a cup of coffee. Starbucks would never had gotten started if they had to depend on guys like me for a customer base. I suspect that most of the people going to big box hardware/lumber stores feel the same.
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Would you prefer a specialty, premium roast, fresh ground, fresh brewed, "gourmet" cup of plain coffee...
12oz for $2.25?
I consider myself a coffee conniseur. That said I would choose the above.
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Implied value usually makes more money net, but there is huge difference between trying to pull this off in yuppiland versus bubbaville... That is the harder question...
I would prefer really good coffee, and that does not come out of a can...
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As long as i can grind and brew coffee myself i dont have a problem with Starbucks or 8-oclock.
The problem comes when people dont use enough grinds to make coffee and when beans are dark roasted.
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You dont like dark roasted???
I love French Roast....about near as dark as you can get it.
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Why not just like charcoal? 
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Lick and like are two different words entirely... Hard to be a smartazz when you do dumbazz things!
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I'd consider both.
I will not pay $2.25 per cup but will pay $0.75 - even if its mud.
I don't see the attraction to expensive coffee...............
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If you buy good coffee from the start people will drink it. I never got into the fancy coffee, but some people like it. Give me a good cup black and I'll be back. Yuban Dark Roast is my preferred coffee now. I was given a fancy cup one time that cost at least what you are talking about, but after a few drinks it got tossed.
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I don't drink 'sissy' coffee. Serve me up one like Niles and Frasier Crane drink and I'm fine. Seriously, I like plain ol' coffee. Folger's, Eight O'Clock, Maxwell House.....they all satisfy my kultured pallet.
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I can like a cup of quality coffee. That said, I would not expect to get that at a hotdog stand of any caliber. (Not intended as a dig at you). I drink coffee black so I'm not looking for a double-shot, no fat, vanilla, avacado, foo-foo, cuppa. If I'm going to get coffee in front of a box store, all I want is a dose of caffeine. Then again, I've been called a neanderthal.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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I'm not much for instant coffee, but the new Starbuck's instant is worth checking out...seriously.
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I have, and am much impressed by Starbuck's VIA. That'll be my new camp coffee.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Get ya's an industrial espresso machine, and sell Americano's for 1.50... Hell, might as well go full blown coffee stand too, unless you're East Coast where latte's haven't caught on. Buy whole beans from a roaster that doesn't use an air bed roaster (thats how you get bitter tasting dark roasts) OR... Get mass quantities of 190 degree water somehow (best temp for extraction) and do the french press thing. (pump thermoses are okay... Keeping a pot on the burner isn't) Paper basket filters are the friggin root of all evil. And even good drip pots still lack propper extraction. Here's my favorite local roaster... http://www.coltercoffee.com/
I'm Irish...
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Regular old coffee, Hill Brothers preferred, but make it strong. Weak coffee will taste bad and most people don't know why. miles
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