Save your money and go to 7-11

When a coffee shop calls itself a gourmet coffee shop and charges $2.39 (USD) for a cup of coffee it has a responsibility to both consumers and providers to deliver a good cup of coffee. I mean each cup and every cup.

I recently visited the Cocoa Beanery at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Regretfully the coffee was not better and maybe even worse than the coffee I could have purchased at the convenience store down the street. It reminded me of what Abe Lincoln said, "If this is coffee, bring me tea. If this is tea, bring me coffee."

It amazes me that coffee shops invest thousands of dollars on equipment and fixtures and then serve poor quality coffee. When a person spends $2.39 for a cup of coffee and gets swill it's reasonable to assume that another negative opinion has been created about gourmet coffee.