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    Quote Originally Posted by betti
    i wouldnt be seen dead in starbucks mate, they are on a mission to take over the world! why do people go in there????
    Exactly - Has no one seen "The Spy Who Shagged Me"?

    They are the McDonalds of the Cafe world, and they most certainly do their best to keep coffee bean prices so low that the people growing and harvesting them experience a subsistence existence.
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    Thumbs up

    I know a lot of Aucklanders that use Kaiaua, either the Fish n Chip place or the Pub, because it is a good little ride to get there. And to leave from there.

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    Loose Goose - opposite the pub in Tirau. awesome anti pasto platters.

    Alley Cats in Tirau (behind the towie) has awesome coffee and choc cake

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    best fish and chip shop in the world is 3 km from miranda
    Bacon and eggs -theres a cafe in devonport that does that absolutely delishimo
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    eek Taupo best

    Pub n Grub...(old Red Barrell on Lake front), then out the back roads is Rock climbing cafe on way to Te Kuiti...
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    Rock climbing Cafe

    is at Wharepapa

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    OK ... who wants to compile all these so I can stick it in FAQ's ????
    anyone???

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    Cuba Cafe at Palmerston North
    The Exchange at Taihape
    Cafe Rosetta at Raumati
    Caffiend at Petone
    Ujazi at Napier
    Main Street Deli at Greytown
    Aikmans (Merrivale) at Christchurch
    McFarlanes at Inglewood
    Manns Bakery at Dannevirke, and of course
    The Flying Fish at Martinborough
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    Good cafe is Najas in Mangawhi Heads, nice ride and walk through a garden centra to get to the cafe.
    There is also the Dome View in the Brynderwyns, Puhoi pub nearly always has motorcycles parked outside!

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    Quote Originally Posted by betti
    apologies if this has been covered before, but your top stops for brekkie and brews would be most welcome, especially cafes that are popular with local bikers anywhere in nz, so I can work some runs out!.
    thanx in advance
    betti in palmy

    Tarawera pub, Napier /Taupo Hwy

    New owner is Pommy guy who brought his Duke and Royal Star out with him, hell of a nice guy, took us out back showed us his babies. Never drive past without stopping! Friendly locals as well.

    Venison sammies with gravy are yummmmmy.



    Okoroire pub, our local, allways popular.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2
    They are the McDonalds of the Cafe world, and they most certainly do their best to keep coffee bean prices so low that the people growing and harvesting them experience a subsistence existence.
    Umm bullshit, there a bigger coffee manufacturers than that little company known as Starbucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mangell6
    Umm bullshit, there a bigger coffee manufacturers than that little company known as Starbucks.
    Growers (manufacturers) have a stratified system to sell coffee through. They don't make a great deal of profit. The distributors and futures markets on the other hand encompass everything that is unpleasant about capitalism.

    Starbucks add another layer to the distribution model, though they don't gouge to the same level as McDonalds according to Fortune.

    They do at least make money though.

    http://www.hoovers.com/starbucks/--I...n-annual.xhtml
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    Quote Originally Posted by betti
    apologies if this has been covered before, but your top stops for brekkie and brews would be most welcome, especially cafes that are popular with local bikers anywhere in nz, so I can work some runs out!.
    thanx in advance
    betti in palmy
    I started a similar thread way back called "Touring: places to see/avoid" or something similar. Quite a few mentions on eats and museums.
    Maybe a moderator could merge them and make it sticky?

    Here it is: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=340
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    eek Both excellent places

    Agree abt the venison sndwiches...it's a gotta stop place.
    Okoirore great hang out, awesome hotel for the night
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2
    Growers (manufacturers) have a stratified system to sell coffee through. They don't make a great deal of profit. The distributors and futures markets on the other hand encompass everything that is unpleasant about capitalism.
    Coffee beans are a commodity good produced by a plethora of growers and nations -- generally third world. Prices, like all commodities, are set by supply and demand. Growers generally have little leverage so therefore end up as residual price takers -- just like New Zealand sheep and beef farmers. It is those further up the supply chain who make the most money, arguably because they take the greatest risks.

    On the subject of futures' trading, this is an inevitable response to the volatility of commodity markets and is an effective mechanism for legitimate hedgers. It is also an opportunity for speculators. But as futures' trading is genuinely a "zero-sum game" (for every winner there is an equal and opposite loser) I don't have a problem with that.

    Returning to the subject of coffee, I have more difficulty with the interventions of the World Bank and the IMF on the economies of the third world than I do with "capitalism".
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