I'm a bit confused at what this article is trying to prove.
I live in Australia, which surprisingly has some of the best coffee culture in the world, but here you sort of just expect that all restaurants serve pretty crap coffee. I would never, ever use it as a benchmark for good coffee...
In my city (third largest in the country), we have hundreds of little cafes that either roast on-site or are supplied by local artesian roasters. The quality of the product that many of these places are producing is pretty incredible (to my taste at least), and I have never had a capsule coffee that comes close...
The real content of the article comes in the second half, after the coffee discussion is over.
I am tempted to comment on the coffee content as well, though.
I live in Australia, which surprisingly has some of the best coffee culture in the world, but here you sort of just expect that all restaurants serve pretty crap coffee. I would never, ever use it as a benchmark for good coffee...
In my city (third largest in the country), we have hundreds of little cafes that either roast on-site or are supplied by local artesian roasters. The quality of the product that many of these places are producing is pretty incredible (to my taste at least), and I have never had a capsule coffee that comes close...