Coffee chain-pain at Max Brenner

NOT a Max Brenner coffee

Oh dear, more reports that coffee prices are hitting 12-year highs on the international market.

Whenever the media talks up a price rise it’s bound to happen; because not only are bean prices actually high, but now that it’s been ‘announced’ the retailers feel super-justified about it doing it.

If you’re feeling cheap, you’ll find the coffee at Michel’s Patisserie apparently isn’t that bad though (compared to other chains like Maccas, Starbucks, The Coffee Club and Gloria Jeans), and is priced at $3.40 for an espresso. (Sydney Morning Herald).

On the subject of chain-pain… I recently tried to have coffee at Max Brenner on Oxford Street one Saturday morning.

I felt a lot like I was walking into a seedy club at the wrong time of day (i.e pre midday); with the dim lighting, awful Top 40 music poking my ‘only just woken up eardrums‘, half-asleep Gen Y staff, and utterly clueless patrons.

Not only was the atmosphere crap – but the coffee was too.

Be warned. Winter is not summer, a cat is not a dog, and chocolate venues do not deliver coffee.

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