You all know better than to eat sushi from a convenience store. Heck, there are grocery stores that serve sushi not fit for a starving dog. Our point is that you know where to go to get decent sushi, and it’s not at Quickie Mart.

You also know not to get coffee at Quickie Mart. The reason is that when you pour a cup of coffee at Quickie Mart, it’s a coin flip as to how good it will taste. On one hand, it could have been made by an employee who knows what they are doing. On the other hand, it also could have been brewed by a clerk who was rushed and totally messed it up.

And then there is the stale factor. Convenience stores crank out a lot of coffee, so they have several pots on the warmers all at once. The pot you choose from which to pour your coffee may have been there awhile, which means you now have a cup of old coffee.

This is why it’s best to buy green coffee beans from Smokin’ Beans Coffee Company and brew it yourself.

You might also think that the odds of getting a good cup of coffee from an upscale restaurant are pretty high, but this is just not the case. Here are a few reasons why.

Coffee is Not Profitable

The bottom line for any eatery is making money. The average bottom line for even five-star restaurants is in the single digits. This means there isn’t much room for non-profit items.

If you do the math, you need to charge around six bucks to make a decent profit on a cup of coffee. Which is why Starbucks fairs so well. The problem is that there is no way anyone is spending six dollars for a cup of coffee at any restaurant after finishing off a 15, 20 or 30 dollar plate.

Labor Intensive

Brewing and serving great coffee takes talent, skill and a lot of effort. Which is why coffee shops have people specifically trained to make your coffee. Restaurants don’t have these types of people, they have servers who don’t know the first thing about coffee and couldn’t care less about it.

If all of the servers are busy busting out food to their tables, the job of making the coffee might then fall on the busboy or dishwasher. No kidding!

Most Customers are Taste Blind

The average restaurant customer wouldn’t know what a good cup of coffee tasted like if it punched them in the mouth. These are people who drink Folgers at home or grab a cup at Quickie Mart on their way to work. They are also people who drink that nasty stuff they call coffee at the office.

The coffee they get at that five-star restaurant is bad, but after they douse it with too much cream and sugar, nobody knows the difference anyway.

Smokin’ Beans warns you not to drink restaurant coffee and instead order some fresh, great-tasting coffee beans.