The World Drinks Less Coffee While Office Workers Stay Home

  • ‘It will be a slow and staggered comeback’ with offices shut
  • About a quarter of demand comes from cafes, restaurants
Coffee drinkers.Photographer: Yorgos Karahalis/Bloomberg
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In a work-from-home world, hitting the local cafe for a daily caffeine fix has become a ritual of the now-forgotten past. And no matter how much kitchen brewing consumers take up, that just can’t seem to make up for the demand blow.