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There is an extra charge for de-icing coffee?! Is the extra charge for iced coffee reasonable?

Published: 2026-08-24 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/24, When summer comes, it is certainly an ice drink for everyone to be away from home. The same ice drink, some smart heads will choose less ice, or even de-ice. Because, in the case of the same amount of cups, the less ice, the more drinks. But some merchants discovered the secret and even marked ice-free drinks on the menu.

When summer comes, it is certainly an ice drink for everyone to be away from home. The same ice drink, some smart heads will choose less ice, or even de-ice. Because, in the case of the same amount of cups, the less ice, the more drinks. But some merchants discovered the secret and even marked on the menu that ice-free drinks cost an extra $1.

A foreign netizen posted a short video from an unknown coffee shop chain in Seattle on TikTok on April 4, local time. The netizen enlarged the menu of the coffee shop in the video and can see that there is a large area on the menu that belongs to the extra charge area. In the extra fee area, a project marked "NO ICE" was marked with $1.

Yes, you read it correctly. If it is an ice-free drink, this coffee shop will charge you an extra $1.

You may not know that foreign friends' enthusiasm for coffee can be said to be higher than that for money. Bizarre coffee recipe orders have been circulating on popular social platforms abroad. The hidden menu of Starbucks, which has been rarely visited in China, is still unusually hot abroad, and even there are often scenes where the list is longer than the length of the cup, which has attracted many Starbucks partners to complain about these strange menus on the online platform.

Most of the hidden menus you imagine are star cappuccinos mixed with N kinds of syrup, and the complexity of the recipe is that there are scenes like this every day:

Ma Dongmei!

Ma what Mei?

Ma Dongmei!

Ma Dong what?

In addition, there will even be some $5 orders for "just milk". Also on TikTok, a foreign netizen shared the order with strawberry cappuccino with skim milk and no strawberry puree.

With the above support, since $5 a glass of milk is acceptable, why can't you accept an extra $1 for a hot drink?

However, only from the video, it is not clear whether the netizen really ordered an ice-free drink. Nevertheless, it was clear from her words and tone that she was surprised by the extra charge of $1 for non-ice drinks.

Some netizens agreed with her and said that this is the exploitation of ordinary people.

There are also many netizens who understand why ice-free drinks need to be charged an extra $1. Without ice, merchants need to add more ingredients to the drink. Since they have obtained additional ingredients, of course, they also have to pay for it.

Ice cubes are always something people don't want to see. On Weibo, you can often see netizens complain that a glass of ice drink is gone after a few sips, and the rest is full of ice cubes.

Fortunately, the purchase of coffee or milk tea at home will not be charged extra if there is a demand for "de-icing". At the same time, more and more people choose less ice and de-ice in order to get more raw materials.

However, have you ever thought that ice actually plays an important role in ice drinks? with the dissolution of ice, the concentration of the drink is gradually diluted, which is easy for people to accept; in addition, adding ice to the drink can also reduce the bitterness of the drink. If an ice drink lacks the existence of ice, sometimes it will lack the soul.

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