SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. — Americans’ appetite for coffee remains strong, even as higher costs have created uncertainty for the businesses roasting and serving it.
Over the past 18 months, coffee roasters have dealt with volatile bean prices, changing tariff policies and weather affecting major coffee-growing regions.
Those pressures are still showing up in what consumers pay. The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show coffee prices in August were 6.1% higher than a year earlier, while roasted coffee was up 4.9%…