SwissInfo reports on an impending increase in the price of coffee in cafes: Café plus amer au moment de l'addition. The cause is a combination of more expensive coffee beans and a wage increase in the restaurant trade.

A german language version is also available: Bittere Pille für Kaffee-Trinker, but not an English one (yet??).

The cafetier organisation president says that increasing prices for milk and sugar are to blame, too. That Latte Macchiato is oh-so-trendy now and a financial burden (German source).

I don't buy it. I think they've seen how Starbucks milks its customers and learned that their guests probably are willing to pay more, too. Thanks Starbucks customers!

Poor souls are not making any profit at 4.50chf ???

Prices have gone up at Spectaccolo already, 20 Rap jump on my Schalle this morning ....

Patient : Doctor, every time I lift my arm up it hurts,
Doctor: Well don't lift your arm

Or in other words don't go to a cafe for a coffee.

Nick.

doesn't work in practice Nick, I need my mid-commute fix ....

Oh dear, the price of petrol has gone up.
Well, don't drive a car then...

Well that could be an option for some people, maybe if coffee and petrol sales
are boycotted in some kind of mass protest then prices will come down.

Nick

Good Idea !!!


This is a free market gentlemen, if the price is too high you simply stop buying and they'd have to lower the price if they want to sell.

Most of the price of a coffe is service anyway. a coffe at home cost me cents... I rarely take a coffe ouside