There is always an espresso across the street

Take-away caffeine snaps are and will remain popular. In Zurich, for example, new offers were added during the crisis – including those for the office.

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If nothing else works, there’s always coffee. Just the sight of a perfect espresso flowing into the cup in a mouse-tailed line provides an energy boost. But for this you need a proper portafilter machine, which requires a lot of cleaning and adjustment work and is therefore by no means found in all households. In most offices, too, you can at best find Nespresso machines or related ones. Their results don’t get any better when they puff themselves up into one-armed bandits with chrome effects like the copy in the company cafeteria of the NZZ editorial team.

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