For some, it’s hard to get by in the morning without a regular cup of coffee and that might mean that that ease of heading to a coffee shop on the way to work is easier than those couple of minutes brewing a cup yourself at home.
The latest infographic from Buddy Loans has looked at the effect in which buying coffee from your regular store can have on your wallet and it’s not good.
It’s reported that in the UK alone, 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed every year which equals out to around about £730 million spent on coffee. Thanks to this, the coffee industry is booming and it’s estimated that by 2020, there will be 21,000 coffee shops in the UK.
Whilst a takeaway coffee can be more convenient than filling a flask of home-brewed coffee at home for the journey to work, it can also cost a lot more – but just how much can high street coffee right now? Based on their research, it was found that a medium cappuccino was cheapest at non-specialist outets like Wetherspoons, Subway and Gregg’s.
Wetherspoons won the trophy for cheapest at £0.99 a cup but that still worked out at over £250 a year. The most expensive went to Starbucks, which at £2.60 a cup would come in at over £660 a year… Pretty close to almost 3 times the price it’d cost at Spoons.
Having a cup of coffee from your favourite shop is a treat we should all enjoy from time to time but when it becomes a particularly regular occurrence it can really take a bite out of our wallets. Put your coffee ‘addiction’ into perspective with their useful infographic below and see whether it’ll have any effect on where you get your coffee from in the morning.
See the infographic HERE
