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As the price of coffee beans and
overheads varies, this would let
coffee bars vary the amount of coffee
served rather than the price (which
means that you always have to wait
for change).
So, you would
always be able to order a £1 (or $2,
or whatever - so long as it's a whole
number
of currency units) cappucino
and the
day-by-day millilitre variations in the
amount of coffee would provide a
ready index of cost variations in the
beverage industry.
alceconomy
http://www.halfbake...lcoeconomy_20rating
another way of quantifying drinks [neilp, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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"make mine 473ml of Boddington's please" [neilp]
"certainly, that's £2" [barman] |
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Like putting $5 worth of gas in the car ... just with beverages ... I like. [+] |
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I can't say, "Fill it up"? + |
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As with gas, "fill it up" would yield a non-integer bill, but "gimme $3 worth of nonfat half-caff latte" would get you a volume of said beverage equivalent to $3. While I'd never pay $3 for a cup of coffee, + for the idea. |
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Todays special: Buy a full cup of coffee and get a croissant free. (Price may not be full dollars. Full dollar orders do not qualify.) |
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sorry, but i'd like to know exactly how much i'm getting for my money. and i'd rather have a consistent size than different amounts of caffeine each day. i'd be wired one day and hardly awake at all the next. plus, implementing the technology (to measure fluid ounces?) wouldn't be worth the trouble saved just to avoid getting/giving back change. imaginitive idea, however (-). |
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[FarmerJohn] - its pronounced "Filler up" |
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There's a cap on my cappucino! |
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There could be a cup on the counter representing today's $2 worth, like fish prices, then you could choose whether to ask for it. |
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Would they advertise in the price per volume format? (+) if they went so far as to always give the price with an extra 9/10ths of a cent (smallest physical piece of currency) like the gas stations here in America do. |
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Most smart retailers WANT to give you change. It forces the register to open, and the register won't open unless a transaction is logged. This cuts down significantly on employee theft. |
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(A common employee theft method is to pocket the customer's money and not ring up the sale. Having to give change really makes this method very hard for the dishonest employee.) |
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I'd say a better way to cut transaction time would be to have smart-debit-cards (but high overhead) or pre-paid tokens (low overhead, and nicely tactile). This gets the $ out of the hands of employees & customers. |
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[sophocles] less of a problem here, as it could/would be easy to do a dynamic stock take of products which had been dispensed during each sales session. Agreed, obv. in supermarkets etc. |
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And coffee companies really do
have beancounters |
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