daddy_mark

Why are so many locations so bad at making coffee? Dd has pretty good coffee, esp for the price point, but so many locations can't brew worth shit

That's unfortunate. They should really look into a system that's more foolproof. I've never worked food service so I'm not sure what your workflow is but I know there are (consumer) coffee machines that are foolproof as long as you put the right proportions in and correctly handle brew temp. I have to believe that with the money involved in the coffee business there are commercial models with similar properties, perhaps even models that take the proportion part out of the equation and leave employees only responsible for maintenance. Truly great coffee may require an artist's touch, but the good to very good can be achieved with science alone.

Thanks for the candid answer, in any case.

Agreed.. at least in terms of making sure it's not weak. Still often tastes bad, though

To what extent should public policy be directly based on economics? (To be clear, I mean issues that aren't necessarily directly economic issues. Obviously economics should inform economic policy to a large extent at least as far as it doesn't interfere with other policies.)