Crisis-proof drink: coffee consumption is in the Corona-crisis increased

Despite the closed cafes and Restaurants, while the Corona-crisis, people in Germany drink more coffee than in the previous year.

In March and April of this year, the consumption had increased by about three percent compared to the same period last year, reported the German coffee Association on Wednesday.

While in the cafes and Restaurants, 76 percent less cups of coffee was drunk, rose to the consumption of a home by 20 percent.

Coffee is “crisis”

“The Consumer continues to drink coffee – Not just somewhere else,” said the chief Executive of the Association Holger Preibisch.

You can refer to the category of coffee, therefore, as a “crisis-proof”. Coffee machines were in the two months, with a rise in the use of 10 percent of the most popular.

In the case of filter coffee Pads and capsules, as well as soluble coffee, it went down compared to March and April 2019 in the low single-digit range to the top.

With a view to the year 2019, the bean stand for the people again. 166 litres per head which is two liters more than in the previous year, 2018, the people drank.

According to the Association, this corresponds to an increase of approximately one billion cups.

Especially the whole bean was asked. Sales in food retail and e-Commerce increased by 15 percent.

For 2020, the Association takes a positive view of the future, and expects that coffee will be after the Corona-crisis is the most favorite drink of the people in Germany.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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