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PhillipesWe had you worried there for a few seconds, right?

Well, don’t worry. This IS NOT a post about the price of your coffee from Corporate Essentials going through the roof. It’s actually about the coffee price going up at a place that we thought only sold roast beef sandwiches (that’s what we saw about them on The Travel Channel’s Sandwich Paradise).

According to Phillippe’s of Los Angeles’s website, effective February 2, 2012, the new price for a cup of coffee will be $0.45. That’s right, the price that coffee is going up to is $0.45 per cup.

The last time that Phillipe’s had a price increase was the year before I was born. In 1977, they raised the price of coffee from $0.05 to $0.09 – the price at which you can still get a cup of coffee for through the end of this month.

If you have a few minutes, Phillipe’s story is definitely worth checking out either by visiting their website, or reading one of the many articles about them today, like the one on HuffingtonPost.com.

And after reading about Phillipe’s philosophy, and the thousands and thousands of loyal customers they have, we’re sure they won’t mind digging just a little deeper for that extra $0.36.

So while the price increase at Phillipe’s does not have a direct effect on what you pay for coffee, it does give you a pretty good idea of exactly how much the price of coffee, as a commodity, has increased over the past 18 months or so.

Suzie Pinhancos

Suzie is the Client Support Specialist at Corporate Essentials. She graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Union County College. Since 2014 she’s been fueling the culture at Corporate Essentials and spreading the word about their premier office coffee service in NJ & NYC.