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		icebraining on March 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit (Sta... There's obviously more to it than efficiency. Here in Portugal an espresso (bica) is about $0.85 and that includes an higher IVA/VAT (23%).

carlob on March 15, 2012 [–]

As far as I recall the espresso experience in Portugal is very close to Italy. Cheap, good and quick. Compare to France: almost as slow as the US, much worse than your average Starbucks and around 1.5-2$.

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