Posted on 01/08/2019 9:07:33 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
It's no secret San Francisco is one of the most expensive places in the country to live, but $21 for a cup of coffee? It could put some over the edge.
The ridiculously pricey cup of joe isn't being offered at Starbucks or an upscale coffee shop, but at a San Francisco hotel.
The Hilton's Parc 55 hotel will charge $170 for a gallon of coffee during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference this week.
That works out to about $21.25 for a 16-ounce cup!
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...
I’ll bet it’s Folgers.
These big companies. They just write it off. Or something.
And stupid people are parted from their money. I will never set foot in california unless for some reason, I am forced to.
JoMa
Eh.....it’s San Francisco.
“We run our coffee through winos first so that their kidneys can remove any contaminants or harsh flavors.”
A cup of coffee is 4-5 ounces. A mug is 8 ounces.
If you think the coffee is expensive just imagine the price of a bottle of water.
That probably works out to something like this:
$10 for 1/2 lb of coffee
$20 for server for 1 hour
$140 for union foreman oversight and fees to make sure everything is being done according to the union contract.
I think coffee cups are usually 8 or 12 ounces, for the price is much higher, if not calculated on 16 ounces.
Its a high-end luxury hotel. If you can afford to stay there, you can afford the coffee.
Five star coffee at Hilton.
Plus you have to make your way through feces trails to get to the shop.
...and there we have the underlying ideology of both JP Morgan and National Healthcare condensed into one sentence.
It’s basically a South American hellhole - a solid group of ‘elites’ and thousands of subhumans pooping in the streets.
Exactly. Like JP Morgan cares. And according to the hotel website, you can get a cup of coffee for $2.50 at their coffee stand.
Business clients get a per diem for this. No skin off their noses.
I remember paying $15 for a coffee in Tokyo in the 90s. In NYC last year, a diluted scotch and water at a bar was $18.50.
Bingo! The supreme irony is that they are attending to exchange ideas on how to control the rise of healthcare costs (my guess there).
As long as someone or something pays for it, the price will remain.
If it goes well, it will be higher next year.
If NOONE PAYS FOR (not buys or drinks) the price will go down.
Since a ‘5 star hotel’, Large Corp & Health care, ‘US’ taxpayers will somehow pay for the coffee.
(Think BOs’ YOU DIDN’T BUILD THIS)
When dealing exclusively with OPM, things tend to get pricy and more extravagant as the future approaches.
There is and end, somewhere...
Hotels ALWAYS overcharge on everything. Especially food and beverage.
I worked for a hotel in the sales and catering department a little over 15 years ago, and the guest price for a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey for a catered event was like $85.00, where as if someone went down the street to the local liquor store, they could pay just $20 for the same bottle.
Quick (and correct) guess was that the hotel is unionized:
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Hotel_workers_got_it_right
which means that conference organizers are not allowed to bring in their own coffee and likely requires a minimum number of worker hours per pot served.
In my office I used to buy beers and snacks for the team on occasional Friday afternoons. I’d send a couple guys to the grocery store with $50 or $60 and we’d have plenty left over and we did our own cleanup in 5 minutes. The landlord caught up with me and informed me that was a violation of the (union) catering contract which requires two people to set up, someone to serve and a two-person cleanup crew. Total cost would be over $500, which would have worked out to about $20 per can of beer, about the same as the cup of coffee in this article.
Unions were created to ensure fair pay and treatment for the workers doing work that employers needed them to do, not demanding to do jobs that don’t need doing.
And to think...it’s just going to end up as pee running down the light pole outside.
An example of how stupid the media are. A cup contains 8 ounces and a gallon contains 128 ounces; therefore, a gallon contains 16 8-ounce cups of coffee.
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