Posted on 12/26/2019 6:06:53 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
The trend to reduce the use of disposable or one-time-use cups has taken a step forward in the city by the bay. A growing number of coffee houses in San Francisco are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies. What started as a small trend among neighborhood cafes to reduce waste is gaining support from some big names in the city's food and coffee world. Celebrated chef Dominique Crenn, owner of the three-star Michelin restaurant Atelier Crenn, is opening a San Francisco cafe next year that will have no to-go bags or disposable coffee cups and will use no plastic.
Customers who plan to sip and go at Boutique Crenn will be encouraged to bring their own coffee cups, says spokeswoman Kate Bittman. On a bigger scale, the Blue Bottle coffeehouse chain, which goes through about 15,000 to-go cups a month at its 70 U.S. locations, says it wants to "show our guests and the world that we can eliminate disposable cups." Blue Bottle is starting small with plans to stop using paper cups at two of its San Francisco area branches in 2020, as part of a pledge to go "zero waste" by the end of next year.
Coffee to-go customers will have to bring their own mug or pay a deposit for a reusable cup, which they can keep or return for a refund. The deposit fee will likely be between $3 and $5, the company said. Larger coffee and fast-food chains around the U.S. are feeling a sense of urgency to be more environmentally friendly with Starbucks and McDonald's developing an eco-friendly alternative to the disposable coffee cup.
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The insanity continues! First it was paper bags and now it’s plastic! Wonder what is next!
They oughta hand out disposable diapers and thunder mugs to the bums.
As their corrupt little world continues to collapse around them they’ll focus on silly stuff. Virtue signaling while SF burns.
San Francisco cafes are banishing customers.
At that point, you may as well make your own coffee at home if you have to bring your own cup.
“Caves! We must get back to caves!”
Because paper does not grow on trees.
There is a consequence of a private business either voluntarily or being coerced to go “woke”. They have less customer satisfaction and lose business. Go woke, go broke.
Rental cups????? Really. What will they think of next?
Oh, I know.....sidewalk rental turds for the homeless!!!!
My list of reasons for visiting San Francisco:
How much carbon is produced to wash all those cups. Hhmmmm?
What are they going to pick up the poop with now?
Follow the money. The cafes don’t care about the environment. They care about a higher profit margin.
Never underestimate the stupidity of a liberal
There are some very nice cappuccino machines that can be had for $500 or less at Walmart. That’s about 100 cups of cappuchino.
We are thinking of going back, but not to visit San Francisco again as we planned a number of years back. They obviously don't want tourists any more. So they don't need my bucks at Fisherman's Warf - Pier 39, nor my staying at a nice hotel.
Instead I'll fly in to Monterey CA, rent a car and avoid the stinky city.
Took my kids to Disneyland in LA. Do they have the poop problem there too? Is that another city I should write off?
Yes. It's one of my favorite places on the planet. I would live there if I could, and their Fisherman's Wharf blows away San Francisco's IMHO.
People who while out and just want to stop in for a cup of coffee are not going to carry their own cup with them. So for a price or otherwise the cafes WILL have to provide a cup.
And if they use their own cups, for instore use only, they will just wash more dishes, expending more water and energy heating the water.
The eventual cost savings for the cafes will be NIL.
And there will likely by additional costs instead.
But the folks in S.F. are all so rich (LOL) they can afford to pay more just for coffee.
The elimination of take-out and carry-out food and beverage items. Everything will have to be eaten on site. Of course, once they outlaw the use of water (conservation) and soap (polluting) to clean re-usable serving items, I shudder to think of the step after that.
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