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I've never heard of a Café doing this, but I know a lot of wedding caterers will, especially toward the end of an event. It's safer to have people who've been drinking just get tired and leave rather than get some caffeine in them and get a second wind. Plus, it's easier to just brew one type of coffee, and while caffeine could be dangerous for someone with a heart condition, no one ever dropped dead from decaf.
Uh, where I'm from decaffeinated coffee is more expensive than caffeinated.
Also I've never been charged for a coffee refill.
Coffee is usually free after you buy the first cup.
I assume you live in the USA? In Europe most coffees are just singular items you order, with exceptions in buffets / sometimes hotels.
What fresh hell... Yeah I'm in the US, where coffee flows from the taps, our plants are fertilized with coffee grounds. We may live in a dystopian nightmare police state, but we have coffee
Until it goes extinct. But for now we have coffee.
Before I visited the us myself I didn't know about the obsession with coffee y'all have. I mean coffee is also very important in Germany but I think you have us beat.
WE'RE NUMBER 1 WE'RE NUMBER 1
to be fair most Americans are drinking milkshakes branded as coffee with a single shot of the worst coffee you'll ever have just to keep the label accurate. If you go to any random coffee place and expect the drip coffee to be good you'll be disappointed.
But! If you go to a diner where the benches are sticky, they have a thousand little coffee cups from years of collecting, no two the same, and the waitress calls you 'hun,' you're in for the best cuppa joe you'll ever have.
I feel like it should be clarified that if you're ordering an actual coffee drink (espresso base) it's not going to have free refills.
Plain old drip coffee though? Super cheap everywhere, actually the cheapest thing you can buy at a lot of convenience stores.
Well the default here is that you pay even for water at a restaurant or similar...
I don't drink coffee, but shouldn't that be the case everywhere, cause of the extra steps you have to take to remove the caffeine from the beans?
🌈🌞 that's _illegal_🍨🌈
Just don't say your coffee has caffeine in it!
Honestly, you could probably argue in court that given no one complained and caffeine has proven ill effects on health no harm was done.
It's a clear violation of FDA regulations. They say an item must be labeled as what it actually is. They even have official definitions for specific items. Decaf coffee is definitely recognized by the FDA and there are regulations that limit the amount of solvent residue that they use to remove the caffeine. See: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=173.290
It's not the same product as coffee, and actually by giving people decaf, you are making people consume chemical residues that they did not sign up to consume. It's illegal for serious reasons.
to even get that far to have to say that, they would first have to prove negligence by showing proof that you knew it was happening and did nothing to try to stop it.
Only if you're caught
From my limited experience of drinking decaf, it usually tastes more watery. Probably wouldn't visit that coffee shop again if their coffee was watery
I don't think it was a coffee shop. Actually a lot of restaurants do this. Some people can't have caffeine and they'd rather not risk accidentally serving them the wrong thing when they order decaf.
I'm mostly fine with caffeine but if I drink those energy drinks I get really ill, it's weird. I can down espressos wouldn't have a problem, but there's something in the energy drinks that make me ill.
They generally have quite a few other things in them that could make you feel sick. Like a ton of b vitamins and various herbs. It could also be you react badly to the sweeteners in it.
Probably one of those caffeine replacements they use. What's the big one? Tourine or something.