A customer on TikTok First Watch Iced Coffee Viewers can make it at home instead of buying it from the branch chain.
Chloe (@chloe_xandria) has racked up more than 75,000 likes on her video. In the roughly one-minute clip, Chloe and her partner Adam sit at a table and explain how they recently went to First Watch, thinking the iced coffee was “unlimited.”
She said Adam misguidedly ordered seven iced coffees, and when he got the bill, “ended up paying $30 for iced coffees.”
Chloe says that as she and Adam stood at the counter to pay for their coffee, the barista was kind enough to share with them a recipe to make it themselves at home. “So I’ll show you how to make it,” she adds. “Naturally, we ordered it as soon as we got home.”
How to make coffee
On the table in front of Chloe is a glass of ice and a gallon of milk. After pouring the milk into the glass, about 75% full, she pulls out the bottle. Monin 1 litre premium iced coffee concentrate.
“They take this, just this, and put in an ounce,” she says. Adam adds that that’s the equivalent of “two tablespoons.”
Chloe pours the concentrate into a glass, mixes it with ice and milk, and takes her first sip, which she says “tastes exactly like First Watch iced coffee.”
Before ending the video, Khloe tells viewers, “You no longer have to go to First Watch and buy an iced coffee because you can literally make it at home and it doesn’t cost you $30.”
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The customer felt cheated
One viewer in the comments section asked: “Wait a minute, have we been tricked??? Because it’s just iced coffee flavoured syrup?”
“Just milk and sugar. No caffeine?” another questioned.
In response, another viewer explained: “It’s a concentrate in a bottle.”
Coffee concentrate is made by steeping coarsely ground coffee beans in cold water. Flight Fuel Coffee “The end result is a highly concentrated liquid that is delicious when diluted and can then be used to make almost any coffee drink,” the company adds.
Monin is Website the Iced Coffee Concentrate It contains 74mg/1oz of caffeine per serving, and they add that many of Monin’s coffee flavors contain real coffee extract and therefore “contain caffeine.”
“The amount is typically equal to or less than what would be expected to be found in an average cup of regular coffee or espresso-based beverage,” the company continues.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the average cup of coffee “contains 80 to 100 milligrams of caffeine.” Food and Wine state.
The Daily Dot reached out to Chloe via TikTok comment and email, and to First Watch via their media contact form, for more information.
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Grace Fowler
Grace Fowler is a Summer Press and Media Fellow at The Daily Dot. She is a recent graduate from Texas State University, where she studied Mass Communications.