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what wrong with people carrying their own travel mug? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00015CMVE/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00015CMVE/ is what i carr

what wrong with people carrying their own travel mug? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00015CMVE/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00015CMVE/ is what i carry everywhere

Groxx 16y ago
I was kind of thinking the same thing. Can we submit the no-cup design, where one simply does not supply disposable cups? People would get used to bringing their own mug pretty quickly, methinks.
- Tichy 16y ago
  I picture a kind of coffee fountain, where people would catch coffee with their palms, like they would from a well. Ouch.
  - Groxx 16y ago
    That'd oxidize the coffee too quickly though. It'd be gas-station, burned-in-all-night coffee in 30 minutes. Wounds heal. Good coffee is forever.
jberryman 16y ago
exactly: encourage people to bring travel mugs by giving a small discount, have ceramic mugs for drinking in, and have bins for recycling or composting for people who have a left over cup in their car.
pasbesoin 16y ago
This always strikes me as a sanitation nightmare, when I see staff heading over the sink to rinse out... who knows what. Most cups are probably fairly clean, but I imagine a portion of them being a problem to one degree or another. After staff rinses the cup, do they wash their hands? How careful are or do they need to be in avoiding cross contamination when they handle the equipment to fill the cup? Then again, they are already handling money from customers, so I don't know whether it really makes much difference. But while I appreciate the sentiment of bring your own, I always wonder how much staff time, cleanliness, water (hot water?), etc. it is costing. (I don't know -- just wonder.)
- Groxx 16y ago
  How about blasting it with steam for 30 seconds? And I do mean blasting, none of that wimpy froth-your-milk-wand stuff. That'd sanitize it and pre-heat your mug, and requires no questionable fingers on the inside.
  - sparky 16y ago
    Seems like unless your power is hydroelectric, wind, or solar, generating the electricity to make and blast 30 seconds of steam for a cup of coffee may produce more undesirable byproducts than a paper cup.

what wrong with people carrying their own travel mug? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00015CMVE/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00015CMVE/ is what i carry everywhere

Groxx 16y ago

I was kind of thinking the same thing. Can we submit the no-cup design, where one simply does not supply disposable cups? People would get used to bringing their own mug pretty quickly, methinks.

Tichy 16y ago
I picture a kind of coffee fountain, where people would catch coffee with their palms, like they would from a well. Ouch.
- Groxx 16y ago
  That'd oxidize the coffee too quickly though. It'd be gas-station, burned-in-all-night coffee in 30 minutes. Wounds heal. Good coffee is forever.

jberryman 16y ago

exactly: encourage people to bring travel mugs by giving a small discount, have ceramic mugs for drinking in, and have bins for recycling or composting for people who have a left over cup in their car.

pasbesoin 16y ago

This always strikes me as a sanitation nightmare, when I see staff heading over the sink to rinse out... who knows what. Most cups are probably fairly clean, but I imagine a portion of them being a problem to one degree or another. After staff rinses the cup, do they wash their hands? How careful are or do they need to be in avoiding cross contamination when they handle the equipment to fill the cup? Then again, they are already handling money from customers, so I don't know whether it really makes much difference. But while I appreciate the sentiment of bring your own, I always wonder how much staff time, cleanliness, water (hot water?), etc. it is costing. (I don't know -- just wonder.)

Groxx 16y ago
How about blasting it with steam for 30 seconds? And I do mean blasting, none of that wimpy froth-your-milk-wand stuff. That'd sanitize it and pre-heat your mug, and requires no questionable fingers on the inside.
- sparky 16y ago
  Seems like unless your power is hydroelectric, wind, or solar, generating the electricity to make and blast 30 seconds of steam for a cup of coffee may produce more undesirable byproducts than a paper cup.