to also be cross about coffee?

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I am not a huge coffee drinker but I can appreciate that drinking nice coffee is better than drinking bad coffee but I do feel that our obsession with different types of coffee is ruining perfectly good cafes!

I went to a garden centre today with lovely food and good service - once you had ordered it! The ordering queue was huge because the lady behind the till had to keep faffing about steaming coffee or whatever for each individual coffee!

What was wrong with a pot of coffee in that situation??!

Then you don't really know much about coffee. Nothing more yuck than instant pot coffee.

Sorry, I'm a coffee snob and actually avoid places based on their coffee! I do understand where you're coming from but I'm a latte drinker (if it's available, regular drip coffee if not) so I'd be one of the people holding up the queue

The problem is (and I've thought about this long and hard over the years) is not that your garden centre/supermarket cafe/whathaveyou invests in a super-duper gleaming coffee machine, but that they don't then factor in the time/additional staff needed. It doesn't occur to them that making a latte takes longer than pouring from pot.

I too, avoid places with bad coffee. I'm a coffee snob, but by design... I fear if I was to aquire a taste for instant coffee (which I am sure I would), I would drink far too much of it. I buy about three coffees a week and I really enjoy them.

I apply the same logic to sugar in tea (and coffee). I don't put it in. I'm sure that I would aquire a taste, and I don't need the extra sugar in my diet!

If I'm at a cafe and I think the coffee will be shit, I'll buy tea instead! .

Instant coffee is vile: that is all

I love a proper coffee but if they have it, they should have a staff member who only does coffee, imo, or the queue situation gets out of control.

It does take awhile to do the milk for lattes and cappachinos. The machines usually decide they need to rinse themselves whilst there's a big queue too

I like coffee too, but think a garden centre is a bit ott for that kind of malarkey and not to have a separate barista is just a bit weird if they have got the fancy machine. I don't see where the OP is suggesting anyone drink instant?

Surely a pot of filter coffee would be fine for one queing line, and another line for the fancy stuff.

Yanbu, and I like americanos, but will drink coffee filter happily.

Hate standing in line while waiting for people to have cinnamon sprinkled on their froth. It's just a bit too wanky for me.

Sorry, a pot of coffee? Bleauh.

If places want to be paid for coffee then individual coffees must be made!

The problem is the staffing level, not the coffee machine. You're getting cross with the wrong thing.

Sheffield markets, 1970s, milky coffees made with steamed milk and instant coffee - marvellous stuff. And the queues were long then!