It’s just the Americanisation of the country again – get people to leave their cars as little as possible – maximum throughput of customers.
You look at traditional cafes and coffee shops and they are social places where people stop and relax (even if you were driving somewhere with roadside cafes) – now people are forced to believe that their time is so scarce that they only have time to blast through the drive through coffee and drink scalding hot coffee whilst attempting to drive and do all their socialising (legally hands-free or illegally) on a phone. It’s absolutely pathetic.
Also Costa Coffee is like processed hot vomit at a 300% price mark up. You order one of their cold drinks and they pour in some god awful sugar syrup into it. For any actual caffeine aficianados – it is literally a violation to taste.
Went to Ty Mawr a few weeks back & there’s a little coffee outlet there that makes fantastic coffee with much better surroundings.