Please leave us alone we are comfortable with our Sardine life.Thanks.

This bit of news is meaningless unless you can do a comparison of how Grumpy prepares their Nekisse versus how Trabant handles it. Not to mention insurance, rent, and other costs comparing the two.

Just because reporters get paid like migrant farm workers doesn’t mean they should have to provide the same level of critical thinking.

With all due respect, let us not put the horse before the cart or mix apples and oranges here. It is correct that people pay for most things based on value. But how is value determined? For example, water is technically free, but bottled-water can not be free because somebody bottled it. One bottle of water may have cost the owners less than .25 cents to package, but it will cost the consumer at least one dollar to buy it at a convenient store. Why? Because it has to be transported from the creek, mountain-top to cities and towns. By the time the water hits your local Seven Elven, the value has more than doubled. And if you come to my restaurant, right across the Seven Elven, to buy the same water, it will cost you $4.50. Why? Because I had to cool it, pour it in a glass for you, add Ice (if requested) and serve you with a white-glove and a big smile That is a value money can’t buy, but more than justify, from my perspective, the $4.50 per bottle price. The same concept applies to the coffee industry too. At end of the day though, it is all rests on basic economics: supply and demand. Plus, cost of living in New York is considerably more expensive than Seattle. Let’s compare the monthly rent and expenses of operating business for the two companies: Cafe Grumpy in New York and the Fonte Coffee Roaster in the Northwest. I bet you there is not even comparison.

This new over dramatized lot of coffee roasters need to get a dose of reality!