But decaf is like…the same price or more because of additional manufacturing costs to remove the caffeine content from the beans.
They still sold more of it, easily making up for the slightly higher cost.
Also, only having to stock one type reduces inventory, which has a bunch of cost saving, even if they got a slightly more expensive base product.
And you only need to maintain one pot of coffee at a time, saving space and equipment.
…who did?
It says in the post that people assume they need more coffee
Can regular coffee drinkers notice the difference taste-wise? I’m the opposite of a coffee connoisseur and I drink any kind of brewed and instant coffee (including decaf) and can’t tell the difference.
Side by side, trying one after the other. I can tell they taste different. But walking into a place blind, and only getting one. I think it might be hard to tell.
Side by side you’ll notice the little kick depending on strength. But you’d likely be full placebo none the wiser.
I was at a concert drinking my fourth beer, getting nicely buzzed when someone told me those were alcohol-free and I just sobered up instantly. It was awful.
Taste-wise? Probably not. But I’d know by 11am because the caffeine withdrawal would start and I’d get headaches.
I’m a pretty avid coffee enjoyer, and I can’t tell the difference. The stuff that you can buy chemically decaffeinated are made by brands that generally sell lower quality coffee beans in the first place
Good roasters also usually have a decaf roast on the go. You can taste the difference, but if you’re just getting some random restaurant’s drip coffee, you’d probably just assume a bunch of things are off about it anyway, so “it’s secretly decaf” wouldn’t necessarily rank very high.
Decaf needs to be fresh and in bean form. I freeze them because they get bad much quicker due to porosity after the treatment to pull out the caffeine.
I also don’t think you would be able to tell the difference with good decaf.
Only if you’re sensitive to caffeine.
My sister would feel the difference because her heart goes nuts if she has regular coffee. I wouldn’t since I’m an addict with high tolerance. Maybe the headache around noon would make me suspicious but probably not.
Side by side I could pick out bad decaf, but I’d struggle to notice good decaf.
On its own I’d just assume I was given a bad to average cup of coffee, which is what I would expect anywhere but home.
At a cheap diner? You’d have a hard time telling cuz even when you use regular coffee, the caffeine content is pretty low.
Anon says it was a restaurant that happens to serve coffee; not a dedicated coffee shop. So, honestly, probably not. Chances are the coffee would be stale, burned, or just plain poorly brewed regardless of what beans were actually used.
A lot of whining is done about decaf, but it takes a pretty refined palate and a lot of experience consciously tasting the differences to be able to reliably tell the difference by taste alone.
The biggest giveaway is the near total lack of a caffeine buzz, even after several cups. But the placebo effect will go a long way to mitigate that.
Depends on the coffee.
I developed a sensitivity to caffeine, it basically throws me into a weird heart racing thing at any but the smallest doses.
But I freaking love coffee. So I buy decaf. If you shop around, find a few brands that do water process decaf, you’ll end up with something that’s good. Not just good enough, but good.
But the chemical process decaf, yeah, I can tell a difference blindfolded. Literally, I won a bet doing it.
The typical name brands, they usually have a fairly over processed taste to begin with. So it’s harder to detect, and I can’t tell the difference as clearly. It’s there, but you have to already have compared them before you can tell blind.
Thing is, part of that is how you drink coffee. If you’re drinking it out of habit, or on the go, your brain is going to filter the taste out in favor of other sensory input. You have to be drinking it for the coffee itself, paying attention to the experience.
Chemical process decaf has this layer of unpleasant metallic tang to me. Water process tastes like the same basic roast and bean, just slightly less intense. Things like floral notes get a little muted.
You don’t expect good coffee in restaurants, and it’s hard to tell between bad coffee and bad decaff
At least the ones i have tasted decaf espresso does taste more weak but might have been because my decaf beans were noticeably older and the freshness seems to be one of the biggest factors. If i took decaf coffee somewhere based on my knowledge i would likely just assume that it is old/low quality/not brewed strong enough before i would assume its decaf
Uh, where I’m from decaffeinated coffee is more expensive than caffeinated.
I don’t drink coffee, but shouldn’t that be the case everywhere, cause of the extra steps you have to take to remove the caffeine from the beans?
Also I’ve never been charged for a coffee refill.
Coffee is usually free after you buy the first cup.
I assume you live in the USA? In Europe most coffees are just singular items you order, with exceptions in buffets / sometimes hotels.
What fresh hell… Yeah I’m in the US, where coffee flows from the taps, our plants are fertilized with coffee grounds. We may live in a dystopian nightmare police state, but we have coffee
Until it goes extinct. But for now we have coffee.
Before I visited the us myself I didn’t know about the obsession with coffee y’all have. I mean coffee is also very important in Germany but I think you have us beat.
I feel like it should be clarified that if you’re ordering an actual coffee drink (espresso base) it’s not going to have free refills.
Plain old drip coffee though? Super cheap everywhere, actually the cheapest thing you can buy at a lot of convenience stores.
Well the default here is that you pay even for water at a restaurant or similar…
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to be fair most Americans are drinking milkshakes branded as coffee with a single shot of the worst coffee you’ll ever have just to keep the label accurate. If you go to any random coffee place and expect the drip coffee to be good you’ll be disappointed.
But! If you go to a diner where the benches are sticky, they have a thousand little coffee cups from years of collecting, no two the same, and the waitress calls you ‘hun,’ you’re in for the best cuppa joe you’ll ever have.
ah the best financial strategy… lying!
My dad ran a similar business, he was an arborist. When requested to trim or fell a tree on private property, he would inform the owner that the species was protected by state law, and they would need to file an application for exemption. He helped them file it, and they paid him directly to fast track it, plus his quotation and consult fee. Unfortunately, so many of these applications were rejected, and dad could do nothing further to help the home owner, his hands were tied.
There was no such protected species, dude didnt even own a chainsaw.
So fraud. The secret ingredient is fraud.
That is what the judge said, yes.
Whoh how long before he got caught? Jail time? Other stories maybe, you got me curious about him
Bro’s lying on the Internet
It sounded so real!
I’ve never heard of a Café doing this, but I know a lot of wedding caterers will, especially toward the end of an event. It’s safer to have people who’ve been drinking just get tired and leave rather than get some caffeine in them and get a second wind. Plus, it’s easier to just brew one type of coffee, and while caffeine could be dangerous for someone with a heart condition, no one ever dropped dead from decaf.
