I never buy tea when I am out, they all use tea bags even in pots which I hate.
No, coffee in Australia is excellent, it is you damn foreign types that have to put up with inferior stuff 
Isnāt it sad and awful that your statement is so very true. If youāre tight on money then buying unhealthy prepared foods is the absolute worst - cheap but more costly than making healthy meals are home from simple ingredients. So we are letting people be poor and not helping them with simple cooking & nutrition knowledge. In fact I envy folk up in these towns with significant Asian communities as these always have well priced shops full of bargain ingredients - dried chick peas & lentils, spices galore, fresh coriander. Stuff I simply do not see in France. These people do not know how lucky they are.
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Thatās what I thought. We donāt what this young chap is going through. Maybe he just lost his wife. Maybe he HAS to go to work but really doesnāt want to for whatever reason. I donāt think Iād be happy working for minimum wage at a coffee shop. Maybe he has seasonal affective disorder.
None of use know whats going on in his lifeā¦Cut the guy some slack.
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Interesting Chilli, no, I never noticed it. Looks like a place where you can choose from many different exotic tasting coffees, great. 
Your workplace must have had very happy staff, receiving special treatment during coffee breaks. 
In late 80s our office was in Jermyn Street, right opposite Fortnum & Masons. Guess where we used to buy our coffee, tea and sugar? So expensive, but our manager was ok about it, all on the companyās expenses. We could only buy instant coffee as we only had a kettle in our little office kitchen, not a coffee machine.
Never heard of tea brick before. 
I just looked it up, completely new to me. 
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I couldnāt possibly imagine! 
But that must have been a kind gesture so to speak, a personal touch 
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