SPOKANE, Wash. — You may soon pay more for your daily coffee as local shops face mounting pressure from an increase in imported coffee bean costs driven by a drought in Brazil.
Cedar Coffee in downtown Spokane, like many local establishments, is grappling with record-high coffee prices that began earlier this year. The shop has managed to avoid raising prices over the past couple of years, but owner Artemis Yorke said the situation is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.
“The issue is, a lot of places use it maybe not as a primary bean, but they use it somewhere. Now they have to substitute it. So, all other beans experience a shortage because everybody is looking for substitutions,” Yorke said…