What's flowering as forage in your area

[Joe123]

I'm not sure they're making bucketloads, especially when you think about how much energy prices (and others) have gone up over the last few years.

Not that I've ever been in one.

James

I remember a pub conversation with one of the auditors from one of the big coffee shops and she told me the cost per cup to them was between 17p and 23p a cup for coffee (tea was 7p). This was a few years back and certainly pre COVID as the price then was the £2 to £2.50 mark.

 

[Erichalfbee]

cost per cup to them was between 17p and 23p a cup for coffee

Including overheads?

 

[Joe123]

Including overheads?

No - that's was the delivered cost so from memory, the cup, coffee beans, water etc. It was the overheads particularly the massive rentals that started the conversation as from where we were sitting we could see 4 chain coffee shops from the pub bench and it was prime london property. So being geeks we did the maths, counted footfall, guesstimated spend, and spent an hour bouncing numbers and figuring out if they were going to go bust or keep growing....

 

[fian]

I'm not sure they're making bucketloads, especially when you think about how much energy prices (and others) have gone up over the last few years.

Not that I've ever been in one.

James

In Galicia, at Cafés Siboney you can buy a kilo of their great selection version (one of the best) for €36.50. This means that taking into account that 8g of coffee are used to make one espresso and assuming some loss you could make more than 100 coffees. Finally, assuming the hospitality rule of multiplying the cost of food by 4 to obtain the minimum retail price of €1.4-€1.5 per coffee. From there all benefits.

 

[judy12]

We were in France in October - standard price for a better espresso that Starbucks cd ever do was 1euro 50 - 2 euros.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think you would have to hold a gun to my head to get me to drink a starbuck's coffee

 

[Erichalfbee]

First crocus in the apiary

 

[Moobee]

We had a huge and very ugly Eleagnus hedge removed recently and have been busy replanting the space with wildlife & bee friendly shrubs. Love seeing a bee on something you just planted!
It’s a 40’ x 8’ bed and want it low maintenance but as much pollen & nectar year round as possible so adding viburnum, mahonia, guelder rose, hawthorn, hebes, potentilla, hellebores, choisya, miniature lilac and a bottle brush that someone was chucking away. Will interplant with summer perennials and add more bulbs in the autumn. We’re a bit limited on choice of shrubs due to coastal salt laden winds but these should be ok as they have some shelter from the worst of the winds.
It runs behind the beeshed where I’ve piled a lot of the logs cut from the hedge to make a sort of stumpery for shade loving plants & ferns.