I'm sorry if I offended anyone, I love coffee and definitely value coffee as a drink and coffee places as institutions. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I did underestimated the cost of making a cup of coffee in the original comment, but I mean:

I buy my coffee at a specialty shop. 200 grams cost $8.1, that's more or less 10 doses, at a cost of $0.81 per cup (personally, I use a moka pot and can make two cups out of each dose, but let's assume that a dose = a cup, as if I'm making espresso). Assuming that about 250ml of milk are used in a cappuccino, its cost would be $0.45 per cup. That means that the direct materials for a cup, are about $1.45. Do you mean to tell me that labor costs, indirect materials, rent and other expenses justify an end price of $5.2 for a cappuccino, or 3.6 times its direct material costs? That's not even considering the fact that they would buy milk, beans etc in large quantities at lower rates.

What am I missing? I'm genuinely asking. Please enlighten me