Coffee Shops

If you ask for a tea pot in a coffee chain, you will get three benefits.
Firstly, making then pouring from a tea pot will cool the tea or coffee down considerably before drinking, a useful tool for speed, secondly, especially with tea, you will get nearly two mugs from your tea pot (as in Starbucks who also have very easy to hold ceramic ware) and of course better value. Thirdly, you are helping to save the planet from waste if your eating in....my pet hate, is the use of disposable paper cups, so hard to hold,  plastic cutlery which are always seem to break when trying to cut into your favourite Toasty and paper plates when your eating on the premises.
As for Straws, I am with the famous blogger and writer, Penny Pepper on hating those paper ones which  seem to collapse so quickly at the mere sight of a hot drink, and even do not behave well in cold drinks after an hour or so, why not just give us a choice, or keep behind the counter for use if requested on the grounds of special needs.

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