[HN Gopher] The world is drinking less coffee while office worke...
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The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home
Author : finphil
Score : 52 points
Date : 2020-07-11 14:22 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| stunt wrote:
| One cup of coffee in the morning, and one cup of tea in the
| afternoon. I'm on the same routine since 5 years ago.
| jt2190 wrote:
| Same article, no paywall:
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| http://a.msn.com/00/en-us/BB16BZzj
| dang wrote:
| Ok, changed from
| https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-11/the-
| world.... Thanks!
| finphil wrote:
| Thank you. Initially I posted a link from BNN (no paywall) but
| it has since been changed to bloomberg.com .
| seattle_spring wrote:
| Wow not me. Probably because my home coffee setup and beans are a
| lot better than my office.
| ubrpwnzr wrote:
| Right on my coffee game is so strong since the lockdown I think
| I might need to attend a Coffee Anonymous program right now.
| colordrops wrote:
| For sure, I bought a Breville Express espresso machine and
| don't know how I ever lived without it.
| beamatronic wrote:
| I stopped having 4 K-cups a day. Instead I grind and brew my
| favorite coffee every morning. And then I sit on the patio in
| the early morning sun and enjoy it. Life's good!
| arcticbull wrote:
| I'm sitting next to one of those to-go carafe boxes of coffee
| right now I ordered yesterday. 8-ish cups. It's empty now. RIP.
| ci5er wrote:
| I drink about 36-cups/day, so this sounds as if I would be
| really irate if I had that little...
| colordrops wrote:
| Are you being ironic or do you actually drink that much?
| ci5er wrote:
| Ummm. Pretty close. 3 pots of coffee - poured over ice -
| from about 4am ~ 10pm or so? I tend to pretty obsessively
| sip during coding sessions. Although as I have aged, I
| have noticed that it might be disrupting my aging sleep
| patterns, so I may need to start cutting it back. But, in
| Japan, in my youth, when I was working in semiconductor -
| people considered it excessive, but not extraordinarily,
| you know, extraordinary. (I didn't drink or smoke at the
| time - now I do - so I think the combo is ganging up on
| my biology's ability to support this scenario)
| chrissnell wrote:
| This, absolutely. The 'Rona shutdown inspired me to buy an old
| commercial espresso machine (1964 FAEMA E.61) and build out a
| little home coffee shop in the garage, where I learned to pull
| shots.
|
| https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgeL3dsTzW/?igshid=u06d4u494zyq
| elliekelly wrote:
| Did you set out to buy that particular machine or did you
| just happen across it? If you don't mind my asking, how much
| did it cost? I have so many questions!
|
| Do you have a blog? I'd love to read how all of this came
| about. What an awesome project. It looks great!
| wlesieutre wrote:
| Likewise. Drinking less tea though, that was the better
| alternative to bad office coffee.
| WheelsAtLarge wrote:
| I drink a lot less. I drink a cup a day now. I used to drink a
| few a day but I'm better rested and needed less of it now. Quick
| tip, McCafe coffee is great tasting and a pretty good bargain. I
| bought it for the cost and kept it for the taste.
| volkk wrote:
| i personally drink coffee less because i can simply take a 25 min
| power nap when i get my usual noon drowsiness after lunch. i also
| sleep longer because i dont need to commute as much and feel much
| more refreshed throughout the day
| eecc wrote:
| This... and I'm also more productive: 30min of off line rather
| than uselessly fight drowsiness for 2h
| [deleted]
| Mc91 wrote:
| Before working from home, I used to set my alarm to two hours
| before work. I would shave, shower, brush my teeth, have a
| quick breakfast, then commute in.
|
| Now I set my alarm for fifteen minutes before work. It's
| preferable for me if I go to bed early enough that I wake up
| with enough time for a shower, but if I don't I can take one
| after work (or during lunch). The only reason I need a whole
| fifteen minutes in the morning is that it takes a couple of
| minutes for me to log in my Mac and VPN in.
|
| At work we have nice coffee machines with free coffee. I have
| coffee at home too but I am less tired in the morning. Not that
| costing a little prevents me from drinking coffee, it's more
| that it being free is an enticement to drinking it, as if I am
| missing one of my perks of the days at the office when I skip
| coffee. Also, I am getting less physical activity every week
| now, so I also avoid coffee for the calories, and go for water
| instead.
| volkk wrote:
| > as if I am missing one of my perks of the days at the
| office when I skip coffee
|
| same mentality for me.
|
| > so I also avoid coffee for the calories, and go for water
| instead.
|
| i'm pretty sure coffee is like almost 0 calories as long as
| you dont add milk, isnt it?
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| yup black coffee is calorie free
| phonypc wrote:
| For practical purposes. If you want to get pedantic it's
| probably something like 2-5 calories per serving
| depending on brewing method.
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| im pretty sure plain drip coffee ends up way below 1. if
| you ate a bean how many kcal would that be? the amount of
| energy impregnated in the water is still way below
| bluedino wrote:
| If I can't stay at the coffee shop to work, there's no point in
| going. I can make a cup at home and save $5
| setgree wrote:
| > Shutdowns for cafes and restaurants -- which typically account
| for about 25% of demand -- were overwhelming, and it could be a
| while before things pick up again.
|
| I was originally going to theorize something about office workers
| having more options to deal with fatigue -- taking a nap, or
| staring into space (and maybe being less fatigued in general from
| all the time saved commuting?) -- rather than just drinking
| coffee and toughing it out at their desks; but in light of this
| stat, it seems that this is all about how hard cafes &
| restaurants have been hit by lockdown.
| pantaloony wrote:
| I drink a lot less _good_ coffee at home. Not worth shelling out
| for 5lb of the good stuff when everything past the first pound
| will be stale and not very good by the time I get to it, and
| purchased in smaller (usually 8-12oz) bags high-quality, freshly-
| roasted beans are way too expensive to have more than
| occasionally. So those transcendently good cups where one can
| actually taste stuff other than "coffee flavor" or "three-day-
| old rained-on camp fire" happen a lot less often for me now. :-(
|
| Upper-end-of-bad coffee beans from Costco (so, about the best
| they have there) are my go-to at home. Steeping the grounds slow
| & cold yields way less cigarette butt flavor/odor than doing
| pourovers with them, so I'm making a lot more cold brew than
| before. Good thing it's Summer.
| mtts wrote:
| You can freeze coffee beans. Helps keeps them fresh a lot
| longer.
| regularfry wrote:
| I do this. Get a kilo of good beans, freeze them in 250g
| batches.
| Ductapemaster wrote:
| The more expensive beans from Costco are great as Toddy cold
| brew! I don't like them as normal hot-brew...too much
| cigarette/burnt flavor comes through for me as you mentioned --
| but not in the cold brew!
| caymanjim wrote:
| Most workplaces have free coffee, but few have anything else to
| drink. I suspect if you looked at workplaces which stock a
| variety of free beverages, coffee consumption there would be much
| lower as well. I'm somewhat ambivalent about coffee; I'll drink
| it if someone else prepares it, but I almost never bother brewing
| a pot myself. Without an office where someone's always got a pot
| going, or where they have one of those horrible mini-cup instant
| brewers, I never drink it.
| stefan_ wrote:
| Going to fetch a coffee in the office kitchen is a social event
| or discussion break. Doesn't work as well at home.
| hprotagonist wrote:
| meanwhile i laid in a 15 pound supply in late February when it
| was starting to look scary, Just In Case.
| ksaj wrote:
| A few months ago, it was apparently the opposite.
| https://financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/we-are-dri...
| sp332 wrote:
| Maybe people are drinking the same amount of coffee, but they
| had to stock up their homes in March-April and then haven't
| needed to refill since then.
| ksaj wrote:
| That makes me wonder if the toilet paper industry is also
| seeing a short-term dip in sales because of all that hoarding
| earlier this year.
| netsharc wrote:
| Apparently industrial (enterprise? hahaha) toilet paper is
| different to home ones, and they couldn't just route for-
| office TP to retail. Although I heard this on a podcast
| which didn't cite any sources.
|
| The shittiest (ha) TPs are the ones where the buyer cheaps
| out, i.e the one you found in every AirBnB on the planet
| (when AirBnB was still a thing)...
| [deleted]
| Larrikin wrote:
| Its annoying how there was pretty much no toilet paper to
| be found for months with a massive stock pile of paper
| towels everywhere and now its the opposite. I stock up on
| toilet paper and paper towels at regular intervals and was
| lucky to only barely begin running out once stores started
| getting toilet paper again but there seems to be no paper
| towels anywhere now.
| ci5er wrote:
| I moved into a "new" apartment just over two years ago,
| and ordered TP on Amazon. 24 or 36 rolls or something. I
| fat-fingered the "Add to Cart" volume button, and got
| like 4x36 rolls. I'm a single guy - so I accidentally
| stocked up in advance! (I am not even half way through
| two+ years later - happy accident, in retrospect!)
| save_ferris wrote:
| FWIW, major grocers like HEB spent months planning and
| simulating the effects of the pandemic before it hit the
| US and still didn't see the run on toilet paper
| coming.[0]
|
| 0: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-
| coronavirus-p...
| pstrateman wrote:
| Clearly they didn't read their history books.
|
| King of the hill predicted the TP apocalypse for y2k.
|
| https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Hillennium
| antisthenes wrote:
| Different industries see regular ups and downs throughout
| the year anyway.
|
| Summer, for example, is generally considered a slow season,
| because many people are travelling and spending time
| outside, less time shopping.
| eecc wrote:
| Hmm, morning doses remain the same. In the afternoon laziness
| might delay the inevitable second moka round but eventually I'll
| go for it. I have a 6cups Bialetti Venus... should I be worried?
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