Even if you used a single-serving "brew & go" type machine, you're still going to save about 75% by using that over a Keurig.
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Great Coffee Rip-Off
The Keurig "k-cup" has to be one of the more inventive ways that a company has figured out how to separate fools and money.
I did the math on this a couple of years ago when my former employer got one of those machines for the break room. When I compared the cost of a single k-cup against brewing coffee, I found out that this was roughly how much coffee one could brew using a coffee maker for the same cost of a single k-cup:
Given that a coffee mug is equivalent to about two "cups of coffee", as such is marked on those coffee pots, you get six coffee mugs of coffee from a coffee pot for the price of a k-cup, *and* you don't have to pay over $100 for a frigging coffee machine.
Even if you used a single-serving "brew & go" type machine, you're still going to save about 75% by using that over a Keurig.
Even if you used a single-serving "brew & go" type machine, you're still going to save about 75% by using that over a Keurig.
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At what price peace?
I only buy on sale, where it's more like 9 cups of "normal" coffee versus a K-cup worth...but...it keeps my better half happy, so I do it!
I'm not a sucker, just buying peace...
Almost forgot..you can buy a filter basket the same size as a K-cup and use your own preferred coffee grind in a Keurig machine. Makes the costs much more reasonable, but still higher than the ol'Mr. Coffee.
I put a Keurig in at the store I owned because it saved me money: Staff wanted to have fresh coffee, and not wash pots, Customers wanted different stuff, etc et-fucking-cetera. We were throwing out coffee left and right, making a whole pot because someone wanted one cup, on and on. I gave up and bought the K. Terrible coffee. I brewed my own and drank it.
When we closed the place I sold the machine on eBay.
Hmmm....let's see. I also don't add to landfills by brewing my own and using the grinds in my compost.
I work in Manufacturer company where is 15 employees and everyone have 2 drinks a day. I am a purchasing manager but I have my stupid CFO changes to K-Cup on coffee, tea even hot chocolate because she said it is convenience. She is such a dump even I mentioned the cost she still does't get it. Everybody have to put up with Democrat coffee and tea now.
What the hell is "Democrat coffee"?
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