You are reading a single comment by @Stevethecoffee and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
Discounts for reusable cups, selling them etc.
We offer 20p discount if you bring a cup because that’s about what our printed cups used to cost. The unit price is down now, but we can’t really reduce the discount.
Why don’t we sell reusable cups on the counter? Firstly because it’s a big capital investment for something which might take ages to shift - cash flow is a twat. Secondly because fuck takeaway cups and fuck reusables too. If you care, change your routine and drink your coffee on the premises on a ceramic cup. Replacing one environmentally disastrous cup with an environmentally disastrous cup you use 20 times before the novelty wears off and you lose it is horseshit.
Stevethecoffee
cornelius_blackfoot
So was thinking about this as I sipped on a takeaway coffee, from my uppercup. With the growing awareness of the need to recycle and reduce plastic waste and to be more eco friendly, was wondering why more coffee shops aren’t offering discounts/incentives to coffee drinkers to use reusable cups.
I know a couple that give you 20p off when you use one, but was wondering why that wasn’t standard practice, and why more don’t offer reusable cups for sale at the counter?
@StevePeel @Matisse do you guys know why this is the case, what’s the financial case for not doing it/doing it would be?
Is this something that the independent coffee shops start and then the larger chains take on, or vice versa?
And what’s an acceptable % of reusable cup to takeaway cup usage which actually helps the environment.
This is all based on the premise that takeaway cups and lids for them in most coffee shops aren’t recycled, I may be wrong in that assumption.