The Coffee shop

[Kev B]

My first drink of the day for at least 30 years is lemon tea.

Weirdo.

 

[DMorgan]

Big tea fan, 6-8 mugs a day. Just goes with everything dunnit?

[DMorgan]

For me, coffee is 90% experience and 10% taste.

We have a coffee van that arrives outside work on the dot at 10:20am every morning. There is a small tight knit group of us that use this coffee van religiously, much to the disbelief of colleagues. 

About 20 minutes before the van arrives you start to get the tingles of anticipation, we exchange furtive glances across the office and often some excited 'it's nearly time for our posh coffee' whispers.

The van arrives bang on time and gives a shrill pip of its horn and that signals a race... fumbling for money and then a speed walk down the stairs. Met at the coffee van by a lovely doddery man who who likes nothing more than the most wonderful 10 minute conversation about the leaves turning brown, the state of the roads with Winter coming and whether we have put the heating on yet.

Hand over £2.20 and get back a cardboard cup of coffee. Sit back at my desk, lid off, inhale that aroma and then cradle it softly for the next 30 minutes, the occasional gentle sip and a knowing glance exchanged with fellow members then usually at least a quarter goes down the sink when it gets cold.

It doesn't taste particularly nice but the whole experience from start to finish makes it one of my favourite moments of every day.

In among the crowd of non coffee drinkers and posh coffee one man up ship competitions.......we find this gem of a story. Thank you. More please.

It's a great story but I must admit I can't understand the central sentiment.

I drink coffee ... because I like the flavour. I was staying at a hotel in New York recently which had free coffee you could help yourself to in the morning - but it was awful, so I didn't drink it (although we also had good coffee in our Keurigs in our room so it wasn't much of a loss).

But my point would be - why buy food or drink if it isn't for the flavour?

I'd extend it to even if it doesn't taste 'as good' - I went to the Costa in my train station before work for a few years. I would purposefully leave early so that I could have a coffee while I read a book. The staff knew who I was and what I would order and would have it ready for me. But, when they withdrew their proper cups and just started serving it in cardboard ones - I stopped going, because it doesn't taste as nice. To me it seems simple - whatever the experience is I'm ultimately paying for something I like - if it's not as good (or done badly enough for me not to like it) - I'll just stop; no matter how pleasant the experience around it is.

Sounds more like an opportunity cost situation. The hubub around the situation breaks up the day a bit more. right between 9am and lunch

There'd be none of this coffee van tomfoolery on company time at Tikay PLC

[Kev B]

Quick fix.

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[Knottikay]

Does anyone actually collect the tokens on the side to get a free cuppa after 6 visits?

Yes. Mrs Red does, and God help me if I forget and throw my cup away without taking it off, she makes me fish it back out of the bin.

I used to do this years and years ago when there was at least one weekly visit to maccys with the lad. I am going to start doing it again now because a free coffee at today's prices should not be scoffed at.



I was at DTD at the w/end and had a few coffees there. Basic stuff, quite nice, did the job. I always had to ask for white sugar though as it came with brown sugar as standard. Here is the thing though......it was a 'mug' of coffee which came on a saucer. Surely saucers should only be used for cups? At least it came in a porcelain holder and not cardboard.


DTD Coffee.......6.75/10

[tikay]

For me, coffee is 90% experience and 10% taste.

We have a coffee van that arrives outside work on the dot at 10:20am every morning. There is a small tight knit group of us that use this coffee van religiously, much to the disbelief of colleagues. 

About 20 minutes before the van arrives you start to get the tingles of anticipation, we exchange furtive glances across the office and often some excited 'it's nearly time for our posh coffee' whispers.

The van arrives bang on time and gives a shrill pip of its horn and that signals a race... fumbling for money and then a speed walk down the stairs. Met at the coffee van by a lovely doddery man who who likes nothing more than the most wonderful 10 minute conversation about the leaves turning brown, the state of the roads with Winter coming and whether we have put the heating on yet.

Hand over £2.20 and get back a cardboard cup of coffee. Sit back at my desk, lid off, inhale that aroma and then cradle it softly for the next 30 minutes, the occasional gentle sip and a knowing glance exchanged with fellow members then usually at least a quarter goes down the sink when it gets cold.

It doesn't taste particularly nice but the whole experience from start to finish makes it one of my favourite moments of every day.

In among the crowd of non coffee drinkers and posh coffee one man up ship competitions.......we find this gem of a story. Thank you. More please.

It's a great story but I must admit I can't understand the central sentiment.

I drink coffee ... because I like the flavour. I was staying at a hotel in New York recently which had free coffee you could help yourself to in the morning - but it was awful, so I didn't drink it (although we also had good coffee in our Keurigs in our room so it wasn't much of a loss).

But my point would be - why buy food or drink if it isn't for the flavour?

I'd extend it to even if it doesn't taste 'as good' - I went to the Costa in my train station before work for a few years. I would purposefully leave early so that I could have a coffee while I read a book. The staff knew who I was and what I would order and would have it ready for me. But, when they withdrew their proper cups and just started serving it in cardboard ones - I stopped going, because it doesn't taste as nice. To me it seems simple - whatever the experience is I'm ultimately paying for something I like - if it's not as good (or done badly enough for me not to like it) - I'll just stop; no matter how pleasant the experience around it is.

Sounds more like an opportunity cost situation. The hubub around the situation breaks up the day a bit more. right between 9am and lunch

There'd be none of this coffee van tomfoolery on company time at Tikay PLC

Too bloody right.

At B & K, where I worked until I retired in around 2004, we were not allowed to take or make personal calls on phones (mobile or landlines) or surf the internet. It was simply not allowed. Lunch break was an hour, but there wee no morning or afternoon tea breaks. We went to work to work, not waffle.