To make a long story short, I won’t have internet at my house ’til Friday, so yesterday I went to Swift Creek Coffee House to leech off their wireless internet.
So as not to be a complete scrub, I bought a cup o’ coffee there, insisting that the coffee wench use my handy reusable mug I had brought instead of one of those wasteful, disposable styrofoam cups.
To my surprise, she gave me a 15% discount for using my own reusable mug. She said she was only supposed to give a 10% discount for this, but she didn’t feel like that was enough. I thanked her profusely for this.
If every coffee place gave a big discount for people who brought in their own cups, think of how many disposable paper or styrofoam cups wouldn’t get used once, then thrown away.
So next time you’re going out for some coffee, try bringing your own mug and asking for a discount. If they don’t have one, suggest it (without being a jerk about it). If there’s a monetary incentive to bring your own cup, more and more people will do it.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I really like what you are doing!! keep up the good !! work!! I wish There were more people like you!!
April 10th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
You should find out how much the average paper/cardboard sleeve or styrofoam cup costs and let us know, that way we can tell the friendly barista that we are saving __ by using our own mug.
At my old job I remember them being like $.15 a piece or something like that. If that's still the case, and they serve 1,000 cups a day, that's $15 additional profit every single day.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Our company is looking at providing every employee a cup rather than spending several hundreds of dollars on the Eco cups. Does anyone know what the benefit could be other than saving money?
April 13th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Using washable cups has a great environmental benefit. Even eco-cups use resources and release toxins during production, and less landfill space would be taken up as well. Combine with environmentally friendly natural dish soap for the most benefits.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Yeah, reusable mugs are the way to go. Initially, they take a lot more energy and resources to make, but they save you money in the long haul. Also, all that stuff that Ryan said.
May 25th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
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