Taking the plunger: our coffee breaks in peril
Nothing really new here. Sounded like the reporter needed something to write about when arguments over a rusty ute and leaky public servants are dominating the news but...
AFTERNOON coffee breaks could be the latest casualty of the economic downturn.
As jobless losses mount, industry analysts have predicted caffeine lovers will try to save money by limiting their coffee consumption to just one a day.
"Were still getting our coffee, but instead of having a couple every day or a couple every few days were just going to have one," an analyst at BIS Shrapnel, Tim Emmerson, said.
The chief executive of Restaurant & Catering NSW, Robert Goldman, said the coffee industry could not escape economic hard times. "Does it have an impact on the first cup of coffee? Obviously not. But it does make an impact on that second one. And in many offices they have instant coffee now."
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Nothing really new here. Sounded like the reporter needed something to write about when arguments over a rusty ute and leaky public servants are dominating the news but...
AFTERNOON coffee breaks could be the latest casualty of the economic downturn.
As jobless losses mount, industry analysts have predicted caffeine lovers will try to save money by limiting their coffee consumption to just one a day.
"Were still getting our coffee, but instead of having a couple every day or a couple every few days were just going to have one," an analyst at BIS Shrapnel, Tim Emmerson, said.
The chief executive of Restaurant & Catering NSW, Robert Goldman, said the coffee industry could not escape economic hard times. "Does it have an impact on the first cup of coffee? Obviously not. But it does make an impact on that second one. And in many offices they have instant coffee now."
...etc
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