How much costs a cup of coffee at restaurants and/or coffee houses in the USA?
Starbucks tall coffee is $1.65 in my neck of the woods. Breakfast joints are similar, but generally have free refills. McDonalds is just over a buck I think.
$1 to $2 is the general range, in my experience. You may occasionally see it at under a buck at a gas station. You will push up to the $2.50 range with the 20 oz sizes of coffee at places like Starbucks.
Yeah, gas stations will sometimes have discount programs too - the day after the Cardinals score 6 runs, for example, you can get a coffee for 25 cents at a local gas station.
$1.50 to $2.00 seems to be what a cup of coffee costs at coffee houses. Fancy espresso drinks like cappuccinos tend to be $3 to $4.
Macdonald’s has a small senior coffee for 52 cents, including tax.
Of course, in the USA, the price of a cup includes refills doesn´t it? Here in Colombia, the average price is $1 or less and it doesn´t include any refills…anywhere. If you want a refill, you just buy another cup.
Hmmm… McDonalds doesn´t offer that here. That would be nice because I like McDonalds coffee.
Depends on the place. Coffee houses probably not. Restaurants where you are getting a meal in addition to probably have free refills.
At a typical diner and many (if not most) restaurants, yes. At coffeeshops, the refill is usually at a discount price (in my experience.) I can’t think of any coffeeshop off the top of my head with free refills. And you usually can’t get a refill for free or at a discount price in a to-go cup.
Anything to make a buck. How many regular size cups of coffee in 1lb?
Also, keep in mind that most coffee houses have different sizes. A typical arrangement will be 12, 16 and 20 oz. sizes. The larger sizes are cheaper per unit volume, of course, and in many coffeehouses, it can be a somewhat better price deal if you bring in your own travel mug - they usually have a set price to fill those, and don’t pay too much attention to the size of the thing.
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Oh, and in Starbucks-ese, “tall” is the small size, 12 oz.
Well, yeah, that’s kind of the point (or at least most of the point) of a coffeeshop business, isn’t it? What the market will bear and all that.
The coffeestand in my building’s atrium makes a great large mocha for $3.50. It’s a nice occasional treat.
Are you certain they don’t? I don’t think it’s actually on the menu anywhere, they just offer it if you ask for it. Sort of a “special for people in the know” deal.
McDonald’s stores in my neck of the woods, at least, have the “Mac Double,” a double cheeseburger for, I think, $1.39.
It’s not the usual double cheeseburger (only one slice of cheese, but I don’t know if anything else is different) and it’s not on the menu. It, too, seems to be only a “special for people in the know.”
Remember, I am not in the USA. Some things here in Colombia are different. I have never seen the “Senior” coffee on any McDonald menus here in Colombia.
That’s because the Double Cheeseburger was on the $1.39 menu* until a few years ago, when it became to expensive to sell at that price, so they introduced a nearly identical burger to take over the same price point and bumped the original Double Cheese up to $1.69 or whatever. I’ve heard that you can also order a single cheeseburger for even less than a McDouble. I think that one is the same one they put in Happy Meals.
*Canada
Wouldn’t it be the “Viejo” coffee in Colombia?
There’s one place in town that you get one refill (of regular coffee only, not lattes or mochas or anything like that) with any of the to-go cups, or if you’re going to stick around a while you can get a bottomless cup that’s a little more expensive than their largest to-go size (but significantly smaller). You have to get about three refills before you break even on amount-of-coffee for the price, but if you’re just hanging out for a few hours reading the paper or whatever, it’s not a bad deal – around $3 or so, IIRC.