A couple months ago I bought some of the Dark-Chocolate-covered Espresso Beans at Starbucks. It was one of those instances where I didn’t check the price when I grabbed it off the shelf. (What an Impulse Buyer!) When it got rung up, I thought it was a little high, but since I was buying that and a coffee for me and a friend, I didn’t pay too much attention. When I got back to my office (yes, Starbucks is right on campus, just a building away!), I looked and found out it was $8.95! For a big container of chocolate-covered espresso beans! DANG!

So then I had to figure out how much I was getting for that kind of money. I took a sticky note and started making tally marks on it as I ate the beans. Yes, I’d become a Bean Counter!

Turns out that the whole container had 225 dark-chocolate-covered espresso beans. At $8.95, that turns out to $0.04 per bean. With all the dark chocolate that’s on there, that’s really not a bad deal. Figure you’d pay a quarter for six of them–that seems appropriate.  Especially since most people only eat a few at one sitting.

So there you go. And now you know. :-)