Coffee crisis passes
March 19, 2008 | 11:00
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Gas is up, food is up and, in case you haven't noticed, coffee is up too. For a while, it was way up -- $1.72 a pound for green beans on the May futures market. But this week the price abruptly fell back to $1.37.
So for the moment we seem to have dodged the threat that harried businesses would cut off free coffee service to their employees. Because we all know how people react to that. As Dr. Johnny Fever said when his radio station cut off the coffee on the '80s TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati": "They can't do that! It's in the Constitution! Look it up!"
-- Charles Perry
Photo by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times
