What data are they using? If it's amount of coffee sold vs. population, at least Luxembourg is wrong. I know people who drive 2-3 times a year around 300km from Germany just to shop gasoline and coffee in Luxembourg. Both are so cheap that it's still worth it. Cause there is no tax on coffee it's 20-50% cheaper as in Germany. The same for Belgium. So germans and belgians love to buy coffee in Luxembourg.
Edit: exactly this question is written by the author of the linked article. So it is plausible that the data or the result from the data is wrong.
Not bad not bad...I am near the German and Belgian border in South Limburg. I see Zika Grenzmarkt has some nice coffee prices. I was already wanting to go to Luxemburg this summer for a short trip.
Ooohhh let me tell you! Not only is the coffee and gasoline cheaper, but also champagne cause there is no champagne tax like in Germany (don't know if you have this as well). And also taxes for tobacco is lower so it's cheaper and at last: there is no "Pfand" for canned sodas/beers (great for things like festivals).
But the one thing a lot more expensive in Luxembourg are clothes. That's why a lot of people living in Luxembourg love shopping in Trier (Germany).
Hope you have a nice trip :) The shopping is great at every gasstation at the boarder (they have most of the time a little shop with exactly the cheaper stuff on top), but the capital of the country is nice to visit as well :)
I could be wrong, but half of the people who work in Luxembourg don't live there, so every cup of coffee they drink at work ( or buy at shops before and after work) wouldn't be counted right.
That seems true. The country is very small so a lot of people can live in cheaper places like German/French/Belgian border villages.
I once met a guy living in belgium and working in Luxembourg city and he needed 40min via car (and the city isn't right next to the belgian border). Same for the other countries.
So yeah, I would also guess 50% of the coffee consumed shouldn't count.
Part of it is inherent to the style. My morning cup of pourover coffee is 23 g of beans to 350 g of water. A cup of Turkish coffee is like 4 grams of beans.
Aye. And while it may come off as hyperbole or satire, taps are really only used for the extremely high demand situations where supply simply can't keep up.
Is free coffee at work not common in Europe? Most companies I’ve worked at in the U.S. offer free coffee in the workplace. How that’s offered has depended on the company. Some just have a traditional American coffee pot that runs water through grounds in a filter and it drips into a pot that holds 8-12 cups of coffee, sitting on something to keep the coffee warm. There might be two pots, one for decaf and one for regular. A common source of contention is if someone takes the last cup and does not start another pot brewing. Other companies have offered a Keurig system that functions largely the same way but brews an individual cup at a time using single-use disposable pods. This allows people more choices in coffee styles but is more expensive and generates a lot of trash.
One place I worked that was staffed 24 hours a day had some fancier coffee machines that would grind beans fresh for your cup and could produce several different styles like espresso, cappuccino, mocha, or americano, in regular or decaf. It wasn’t as good as going to an actual cafe, but for free and available any time of day or night it was pretty nice.