Rome, 28 May 2022 – Coffee at the counter, how much do you cost me? The answer is in an investigation by Assoutenti. Which certifies: the classic cup of espresso reaches increasingly higher prices in bars and in some cases double-digit increases compared to 2021.
Summary
The association draws up the map official prices of espresso in the main Italian provinces hit by the flare-up of inflation that is sweeping Italy and Europe and that also affects other products.
The national average price of coffee today is around 1,10 euro versus € 1,038 in 2021, notes Assoutenti.
The palm of the dear-coffee belongs to Trentino Alto Adigewith the bars of Trento who sell the espresso consumed over the counter on average a 1,25 euro, € 1.24 in Bolzano. In Cuneo too, coffee costs 1.24 euros. In 3 provinces ofEmilia Romagna (Ferrara, Ravenna and Reggio Emilia) the espresso breaks down the psychological threshold of 1,20 euroas well as in Veneto (Rovigo e Venezia), while a Padua and Vicenza the average price is 1,19 euro. I
The cheapest coffee in Italy – Assoutenti warns – is the one served by the bars of Messina (0,89 euro), followed by Napolia city where espresso is a historical tradition (0,90 euro) and two Calabrian provinces (Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro0,92 euro).
The coffee mapping carried out by Assoutenti thus records abnormal differences in the price lists between northern and southern Italy: coffee costs Trento even 40,5% in addition to Messina, despite being the same product and made in the same way.
Only 5 provinces, Naples, Biella, Lucca, Novara and Maceratathey kept the average price is stable of coffee, while in all the other Italian cities there are also heavy increases.
“In recent months we had denounced the first adjustments of the coffee price lists in Italian bars: the official numbers today confirm our alarm, and the upward trend, which today is close to an annual average of + 6%, it is destined to continue in the coming months, “says the president Furio Truzzi.
“To generate the increases – in the president’s analysis – on the one hand there is the expensive-billswhich imposes higher energy costs on merchants then passed on to final consumers through retail prices, on the other hand the tensions in the prices of raw material, which have led to higher prices for goods such as coffee and sugar. Consumers are at the expense of this situation, considering that in Italy they are consumed every day 9.3 million cups of espresso at the bar “, concludes Truzzi.