Keurig K350 2.0 Coffee Maker
Does the brain trust know if this model takes the refillable cups? Would like to surprise the wife but we drink too much coffee to buy the standard cups Thanks,Mike
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WTP-GC wrote:2gypsies wrote:
Folks mention the high cost of a cup of Keurig coffee but don't flinch when drinking their beer, wine, liquor, smoking and even a cup of coffee in a restaurant.
We all have vices and pay for them in some way. :)
I have no qualms with the high cost of the K-cups. If folks want to pay it, then so be it. But for me, I'd at least like to know that I'm getting a good tasting, high quality product for that much money...which is something that Keurig has yet to be able to provide.
I have no additional information about your particular dining experience on this occasion, but taken by itself, $1.50 for a cup of tea isn't really out of line. If it takes 3 minutes of serving time to take the order for the tea and to clear it down once done plus an additional 3 minutes to clean the dishware and restore it to a proper place for re-use then you're looking at a labor burden of 90 cents for the transaction alone based on a $9/hr average wage. Add in the costs to make the hot water, the tea bag, more how water to wash the dishes, and an admittedly miniscule percentage of overhead for lights, heat, napkins, condiments / fixins, janitorial, insurances, taxes, advertising, office supplies, etc, etc, etc on a $1.50 transaction and you're up to about $1.28 in costs and a 15% profit. Drink up...you're getting a good deal on the tea and they're losing money on your ice water.
