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It combines specialty craft coffee into a single serving bag. You don't need a machine. You don't

have to make a mess. All you have to do is add hot water wherever you go. Each seatpack is

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You can get your hands on steeped coffee packs at steeped coffee.com.

That's S-T-E-P-E-D coffee.com, asking your local retail stores to start carrying steeped

or having your favorite roastery reach out and kind of get in touch.

If you're in Santa Cruz, come on by any of the Catin Cloud locations locations we have it there for you basically they're just doing their best to change the coffee industry make your life more convenient with their pre-portion pre-ground innovation so tell all your friends hope your dog barks at us what are we going to talk about uh whatever let's talk about funny stuff let's just rip the market apart what kind of funny stuff stuff? Like what's happened in the market? Where do you? Where do you keep track of the market? We could talk about square. Square's the first thing. Square. We almost went to it. Jokes on you guys. We didn't. And now we've saved some cash. All right. We really were very close to switching to square.

Mm. The user interface. Mm. The front facing card stuff for the guests. They put it out

there. They got you sucked in. They love it so much. And here you are paying the fees. $24,000.

Ouch. Now, I'm actually super-boned for everybody who does have that issue. That is a very large number for cafes.

Chris, the easiest way to pull that up, if you want to just look at it verbatim.

All I had to do was type in Square into Google and the first thing that popped up was an article from Eater.

Square's fee increases is in great news for coffee shops or their customers.

Square pricing change could negatively impact your favorite coffee shop.

Both of those things are true.

So starting November 1st for existing clients and immediately for new ones,

Square will charge merchants 2.6% plus 10 cents for each tapped, dipped, and swiped credit card

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