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A bias on serving coffee vs tea in restaurants

Posted on September 26, 2009

serving tea vs coffee in restaurants

Why it is so hard to find a restaurant that serves tea in style? I want my tea served with a porcelain teapot or an iron cast model. It seems that most restaurants skipped the memo about the current tea popularity.

PHOTOS by Kim Vallee:
+ Awesome teapot at Art Java on President Kennedy in Montreal – some coffee shop owners get it
+ Sugar pot at DNA restaurant in Old Montreal

An ex-lifestyle and entertaining expert and UX designer who became a STEAM educator. At Bidouilleurs, I helped kids aged 5-12 become inventors and makers. An innovative mom who cares about gender equality and to get more girls and boys interested in STEM/STEAM.

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  • RestaurantZoom
    September 27, 2009 at 05:21

    The coffee bias has been around in the US as far back as I can remember. The question is a good one. Is coffee more popular because it was here first or because of suggestive selling? Like the chicken or the egg?

  • Francois Veillette
    September 27, 2009 at 09:04

    The bias also exists in asian restaurants. But for these, the balance tips on the side of thea.

  • Elaine
    November 21, 2010 at 11:54

    How can we educate restaurants to not just add hot water to an aleady used tea bag if we want more than one cup? It would be like asking a coffee drinker to leave 1/2 inch of coffee in their cup and adding hot water. I have talked to some restaurant managers and they just don’t get it. They think because the box says it’s a two cup tea bag that it should be okay. They are obviously not tea drinkers, but they won’t listen to someone who is.