Suspended coffee
Suspended coffee
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Jennifer: £2 for a coffee? How often do you buy one?
Neil: Hmm, I buy one every day before I catch the train for work.
Jennifer: So, a £2 cup of coffee, Monday to Friday – that’s £10 per week. That’s quite a lot of money! But what would you do if you did not have enough money to pay for a coffee though, if you couldn’t afford it?
Neil: I suppose I would have to go without. If you go without something, you don’t have it.
Jennifer: Well, lots of people don’t have money to spare for a coffee, but now a new scheme means that they can go to a café…
Neil: Are coffee shops giving away free coffee?
Jennifer: Not quite. A new trend, or pattern, has started around Europe, where people can pay for a suspended coffee.
Neil: I know that train services can be suspended. But, what’s a suspended coffee?
Jennifer: A suspended coffee is where you donate, or give, money for a coffee that someone can drink later.
Neil: So, someone can come into a coffee shop and ask for a coffee that someone else has paid for?
Jennifer: That’s correct. So, when you buy your morning coffee, you might hand over £4 – that’s £2 for the coffee you want to drink and £2 for a suspended coffee for someone else.
Neil: That’s an interesting idea. So who would drink a suspended coffee?
Jennifer: Let’s listen to a clip from Hettie Clark, who works in a café, to find out who might ask for a suspended coffee.
Hettie Clark
A suspended coffee is where someone buys a coffee for somebody else who is in need of it. So, they could be homeless, they could be hard on their luck or it could be collaborative with the refugee centre down the road.
Jennifer: So, Hettie Clark mentioned three different types of people. Did you hear who they were?
Neil: She said “They could be homeless”. If you’re homeless, you don’t have anywhere to live.
Jennifer: Hettie also said “They could be hard on their luck”. If you are “hard on your luck”, you are unlucky.
Neil: What was the third group of people?
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