To think fussy people ordering coffee should always be in a separate queue

[HarveysPJs]

Drives me mad. I just want to buy a sandwich, and in front of me is someone ordering 4 coffees with very exacting requirements.

@SwedishEdith

Exactly *@IcedPurple*. If in France or Italy I ask for un café/un caffè. And that's it.

Yep. The entire process of walking in the door, ordering, drinking your coffee, paying and walking out can all be done in under 2 minutes in an Italian coffee bar. No wankery required.

Why not just put a teaspoon of coffee granules into a mug and add boiling water instead of faffing about with a damn caffitiere??

Um, if you did do this you'd have a mug of not very nice coffee flavoured water with bits of ground coffee bean floating in it 🤢

The cafetiere is, partially, for filtering the bits out after the coffee has brewed!

If in France or Italy I ask for un café/un caffè. And that's it

It's usually made with long-life milk and tastes disgusting too.

In France and Italy you take a seat while they make you your coffee, unless you are having an espresso which you will drink before the server has got you your change.

It's usually made with long-life milk and tastes disgusting too.

Not in my experience.

It'll get worse - the National Trust are making redundancies among catering/retail staff. And their catering was painfully inefficient already.

Maybe they could have a barcode swipe self service till - like they have in supermarkets?

Is this thread from ten years ago?

I avoid coffee shops like the plague unless I have 3 hours to kill.

Went in one shop half hour before an appointment and one person ahead of me and one assistant serving- thought this is good. 20 minutes later she was still sorting out this person's order - she kept adding on items and checking every menu - paninis, cakes, extra tweeks to coffee etc for herself and 3 other people.
I walked out realising I had run out of time.

And the NT cafe would get the revenue of 20 people like me v’s one coffee buyer!

In France and Italy you take a seat while they make you your coffee, unless you are having an espresso which you will drink before the server has got you your change.

Not in Italy. Many cafes don't even have seats other than a few at the bars. Even a cappuccino - which is much shorter than the big mugs of milky coffee that you get in Costa - is almost always drunk at the bar and rarely after 10 am. Table service is very rare outside touristy areas, and then you'll pay for the privilege.

This thread has really made me laugh. Most of these fussy coffee types:

"a skinny frappe toffee latte with soya milk, a shot of gherkin juice and banana sprinkles, "

Are just wankers!

"4 cokes and 4 bags of salt and vinegar'. "

I was back at the cafe today - 2 ladies in front of me having an in depth discussion around the pre packed sandwiches. I snuck by and got my DD’s ice cream, mainly because I knew what would be coming if I waited behind them. Don’t think they even noticed! I felt like a stealth ninja...