The Every-day-if-ication of $7 Coffee

The Every-day-if-ication of $7 Coffee

On June 23, 2016, I came to the sad realization that most living, breathing American coffee drinkers in New York City don't understand what a coffee refill is; do not comprehend the implicit social covenant that the concept stems from -- cannot manage to wrap their thoughts around the idea of a theoretically bottomless cup of coffee. The decline of coffee refills is connected to gentrification, and something I call artisanal everything.