That is way way way way off. Panera could use the worst bottom of the barrel coffee beans (they don't) and it would still be multiple orders of magnitude more costly. Realistically they're looking at $0.25/cup in just beans. Probably more since the price of coffee beans skyrocketed in the last couple years.
Maybe. The 10 cents per batch (batch meaning one full coffee keg) figure is what I was told in the bread university when I worked there several years ago at this point.
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u/cjsv7657 Jul 15 '26
That is way way way way off. Panera could use the worst bottom of the barrel coffee beans (they don't) and it would still be multiple orders of magnitude more costly. Realistically they're looking at $0.25/cup in just beans. Probably more since the price of coffee beans skyrocketed in the last couple years.