[aestra]

Significant savings for some.

If you had a 2 cups a day coffee habit, this works out to about $.73 a cup or $1.45 a day. Pretty good deal if you like coffee shop coffee.

Assuming you'll otherwise spend $3 per cup you'll save about $1657 a year. $2190 vs $532.90.

[pwthornton]

The coffee included with the $45 plan (there are two tiers), is not $3 coffee. It's black coffee. In DC, a small drip coffee or pour over runs around $1.80 or so. It's $85 a month for the plan that includes lattes and other more expensive espresso drinks.

A small latte usually runs around $3 or so. An espresso might be $2.25-2.50. Two small lattes a day (not a lot of caffeine) would save you a ton of money a month with this plan.

If you drank even one cup of coffee a day, you'd save money with this, with either plan. A lot of people drink a cup in the morning and the afternoon, and that's where the savings really add up.

I'd personally be more interested in a hybrid plan that got me unlimited black coffee and a certain amount of espresso drinks a month. I know they have a more expensive plan with espresso drinks, but I don't want that daily. How about a $65 plan?

It's a great idea though. If you live and work in an area with coffee shops supported by this, you can basically have a monthly fee that covers all of your coffee needs. You can also no longer worry about having any coffee equipment in your apartment. Saving space is important to city dwellers.

If this came to DC, I'd strongly consider signing up for it. It's a great way to encourage people to go to non-chains, and to make paying at non-chains easier. Many of the big chains, including Starbucks, have long had ways to pay for drinks with an app. That's part of what this product does, and why small coffee shops would want to get on board.

[mertd]

By "pourover", they don't mean machine drip coffee. It's the coffee a barista individually brews per order on a pourover cone. I've never seen it cheaper than $3, including DC.

[pwthornton]

I know. I've gotten it for cheaper in DC, and at Starbucks they'll often make pourover for the same price as drip coffee if you order at an odd hour.

I would imagine not all of the coffee shops on this list do pourover, and not all users will want to wait for a pourover, if there is fresh drip coffee.

[aestra]

>A small latte usually runs around $3 or so. An espresso might be $2.25-2.50.

I don't live in NYC and lattes are more like $4-$5 here.

[aestra]

I just did some price research and it looks like coffee shop coffee in NYC will cost you $1.50 to $3. Regular coffee.