THE COST OF A COFFEE IS ON THE UP AND UP

BY ANNE BYRNE

12:00 - 28 January 2003

It was once the case that when you asked for a cup of coffee, you got plenty of change from £1.

Now you ask for a 'Gutless Wonder' - and you had better have more than a £1 coin to hand.

Exeter and District Consumer Group has found that as the names given to cups of coffee get more and more exotic - a 'Gutless Wonder' is a latte made with skimmed milk - so, it seems, are the prices.

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