Boycott Coffee Shops: Your Morning Round Up

Rise and shine! Time to get your day started. Here are the things you need to read from around the web before you start your day.

Eater

Actually, you should have read this one before you started. Especially if you stop by the coffee shop on your way to work. The price of coffee is down. 33% down over the last year, in fact. So why is it that the price of your morning cup is still the same? Because, stores don’t have to drop the prices. We’ll still pay for the convenience. Also, Starbucks has started a lot of awesome initiatives for its employees, and they ain’t cheap.

Grub Street

Again with the chain restaurants! Wendy’s is investigating a possible credit card breach, and McDonald’s mozzarella sticks may not have any cheese in them. At all. Just when they were starting to do better, too.

First We Feast

A new survey shows Boston has the best tippers. Your move, New York.

Vice Munchies

You can now take a course in taco studies at the University of Kentucky. Oh, to be a student again.

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