I’ve done a tea-and-biscuit survey of the country’s cultural institutions and high-street chains – and I’m afraid we’re being taken for mugs, says the author Luke Turner
‘These are times when the simple comfort of a hot drink … ought to be a right, not an unaffordable expense.’‘These are times when the simple comfort of a hot drink … ought to be a right, not an unaffordable expense.
You don’t have to be a retail analyst to work out that a bulk-bought teabag, a cup and a squirt of hot water costs next to nothing. With a tea at Costa or Caffè Nero costing £2.65, these prices are around “market rate”. But with tea, as with the rents, that doesn’t mean they’re fair.
It’s even worse when outsourced catering firms charge high prices in places we have to attend out of painful necessity, rather than for leisure or work. When my partner and I were going through the stressful and frequently heart-rending process of IVF, it was demoralising to join the long queues at the local hospital’s dilapidated Costa for a rip-off tea or coffee.
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