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Latte Cost Breakdown · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Light FM, happy Friday. Big shout-out to my buddy Dan.
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  Speaker 1: He works at Safer Electric. He's my electrician, and he's
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  Speaker 1: in the van right now with Jayden heading to a job.
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  Speaker 1: And I haven't heard from him in a long time. So, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Again, the company is in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give them a shout-out because they're great. They're called
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  Speaker 1: Safer Electric.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice.
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking for a good electrician.
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  Speaker 2: I have a Dan the electrician, too.
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  Speaker 1: You do, too? That's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You have a Dan the electrician?
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  Speaker 2: Dan the electricians are great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, if you're heading to work, you got your
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  Speaker 1: latte in your hand. How much did you pay for
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  Speaker 1: that latte?
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  Speaker 2: Why does it cost seven bucks to get a latte
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  Speaker 2: when you can make it for like a dollar at home?
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  Speaker 1: Are they making money off this? Is it costing them
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  Speaker 1: to make it? Is it more to make? I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: This is pretty cool. So a barista went on TikTok
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  Speaker 2: and broke it down for us. So somebody who works
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  Speaker 2: in a coffee shop is letting us know why we're
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  Speaker 2: paying $ 7 for the latte. He said the cup and
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  Speaker 2: the lid cost $ 0. 25. The double shot of espresso cost
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  Speaker 2: the shop $ 0. 50. The milk, $ 0. 50. And the labor is
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  Speaker 2: about $ 19 an hour. He says labor accounts for $ 3. 50
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  Speaker 2: towards that latte.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought of that, actually. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: buy coffee, you are paying the workers, too. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then they said they calculated this all together. The
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  Speaker 2: latte contributes about a dollar toward rent and overhead costs.
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  Speaker 2: Put it all together, the coffee shop is paying about
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  Speaker 2: $ 5. 75 per latte. They need to turn a profit. You
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  Speaker 2: end up with $ 7. 00.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not necessarily crushing it. It does make sense, actually. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm defending a $ 7 latte.
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  Speaker 2: You and me both. I thought there would be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it costs us $ 0. 20 to make it and you're paying $ 7.
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  Speaker 2: But this is kind of breaking it down as to
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  Speaker 2: why it's so expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I just think of the ingredients. Like, how
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  Speaker 1: much are all the ingredients? But you brought up, you're
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  Speaker 1: paying the rent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're paying the workers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is there ever a price that's just too high for
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  Speaker 1: you that you won't do it? Like, that's it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just not going to buy it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes. Sometimes I look at stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I do. And I'm like, this is crazy. But like,
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  Speaker 2: if I've gone out of my way and I've got
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  Speaker 2: a craving for whatever.
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  Speaker 1: More cowbell?
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  Speaker 2: Pumpkin spice latte, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, all right, I'll do it. And I'll feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's a splurge. And I just may not be
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  Speaker 2: doing that too often. I agree. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Give us your thoughts on this. $ 7 the average for
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  Speaker 1: a latte. $ 4, $ 4, $ 3, $ 6, $ 3. All right. Coming up,
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