Supply Notes

The food business, explained in five minutes · Tuesday

The coffee price spike, explained

Wholesale coffee prices are at their highest in a decade. Two poor harvests in a row cut supply just as demand in Asia kept growing, and traders have been paying more to lock in beans for next year.

Cafés have mostly absorbed it so far. That's ending. Most of the owners we spoke to plan a price rise before January, usually between 20 and 40 cents a cup.

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See you Tuesday,

Rafael

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