11/11/2026
One in five cafes across Australia has already been forced to raise its coffee prices, and the rest are expected to follow.
Phil Di Bella says the real pressure point is disposable income. Once the mortgage, the power bill and the groceries are paid, people have less left over each week, and a $7 coffee starts to feel like a luxury.
Cafe owners are caught in the middle. Their power and insurance bills keep climbing, wages have gone up, and the ban on card surcharges takes away one of the few ways they had to cover rising costs. Lifting prices is the obvious answer, and it runs straight into customers who already can't stretch to a $7 coffee.
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