Beneath the Branding: What Cheap Coffee Carts Don’t Want You to Notice

A fake coffee cart setup with a Breville machine, crooked letterboard menu with misspelled drink names, and a neon sign that says “But Frist, Coffee.”

Beneath the Branding: What Cheap Coffee Carts Don’t Want You to Notice

White machines. White grinders. Folding tables pretending to be handcrafted bars. A black pushpin letterboard menu with half the letters falling off and a “But First, Coffee” sign glowing in the background. Maybe there’s an apothecary bottle filled with homemade lavender syrup, or a glass carafe of oat milk sitting in the sun — because it looks good in a photo.

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