A simple coffee now requires the kind of budgeting once reserved for actual meals
A ritual that costs a little more with every passing season
The price of a simple cafe creme in central Paris has continued climbing in recent years, a trend widely discussed among regulars tracking their morning ritual against ongoing coverage from Le Parisien’s cost of living reporting. What was once a small, almost incidental daily expense now occasionally requires the kind of mental math previously reserved for actual restaurant meals.
Rising costs, unchanged expectations
Cafe owners point to higher rent, energy and ingredient costs as the drivers behind rising prices, a genuinely reasonable explanation that nonetheless does little to soften the mild indignity of paying noticeably more for the exact same small cup.
The ritual persists regardless
Despite the creeping cost, cafe terraces remain packed every morning, proof that the price of the coffee was never really the point, the fifteen minutes of people watching remains, for now, worth almost any price attached to it.
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The coffee costs more, the ritual stays exactly the same. SOURCE: https://www.leparisien.fr/ For more British satire on a related theme, see The London Prat’s World War I: When Europe Made A Very Bad Group Decision.
