The "Latte effect"

[sox63]

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=566&fArticleId=4472068

Do you also find yourself spending less time at Mugg and Bean?

For me, going to Rosebank has become less, and I don't go to Capello's in Newtown a lot anymore.

Times are tough.

 

[onebrickshort]

Judging by the number of coffee shops that have closed their doors in the Cape Town CBD...Ouch

 

[supersunbird]

Last night I splurged a bit, since it was payday and for a good friend I havent even seen this month. Now back to the belt tightening and just working and staying at home, surfing the net and playing games.

 

[Devill]

Last night I splurged a bit, since it was payday and for a good friend I havent even seen this month. Now back to the belt tightening and just working and staying at home, surfing the net and playing games.

+1 Life is damn expensive

 

[sox63]

Last night I splurged a bit, since it was payday and for a good friend I havent even seen this month. Now back to the belt tightening and just working and staying at home, surfing the net and playing games.

Same here, with a hangover to prove it.

 

[Moederloos]

Scary - imagine the impact on Kenya?

 

[diesel]

Average rental in a shopping centre is around R300 - R350 per sq metre, take a tiny coffee shop of 100 squares = R35000.00 p/m on rent , now work out how many cups of coffee you need to sell just to pay the rent!

 

[sox63]

Scary - imagine the impact on Kenya?

You lost me there. Why the reference to Kenya?

 

[Moederloos]

You lost me there. Why the reference to Kenya?

Coffee beans are grown there. It is one of their biggest export commodities.
A major downturn for Starbucks would heavily affect their exports.

 

[supersunbird]

Kenya grows lots of coffee (for a african country). Zim is so screwed that the lesser coffee being bought makes no diffirence.

 

[sox63]

Coffee beans are grown there. It is one of their biggest export commodities.
A major downturn for Starbucks would heavily affect their exports.

Ahhh.