“Good coffee is a pleasure. Good friends are a treasure” is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying has been posted on restaurant signs since at least 2007. Origin is unknown.
19 July 2007, Star Press (Muncie, IN), “Bruner’s Restaurant is ‘your home away from home’” by Kathy Kirby, pg T8, col. 1:
THE ATMOSPHERE. A sign inside this restaurant says, “Good friends are a treasure; good coffee is a pleasure.”
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Hunter Freemont
@hunters1ife
Good coffee is a pleasure, Good friends are a treasure. Thanks Cracker Barrel!
11:38 AM - 9 Jan 2011
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Richard Scollon
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“Good coffee is a pleasure, good friends are a treasure” Cracker Barrell Restaurant Sign
7:10 PM - 23 Jan 2011
14 March 2012, Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), “Photos of Haiti have a heartbreaking immediacy” by Marsha Day, pg. B1:
A message on the wall at Moka Coffee Bar says “Good coffee is a pleasure, good friends are a treasure.”
Olean (NY) Times Herald
The St. Bonaventure basketball experience
By Mark Plotkin, Special to the Olean Times Herald Mar 2, 2014
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Throughout the large restaurant were placed epigrams on wood panels such as “No Act of Kindness is Ever Wasted,” “Good coffee is a pleasure, Good friends are a treasure,” and, the clincher, “Promise me you’ll always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you feel, and smarter than you think.”
askIDEAS
65 TOP COFFEE QUOTES AND SAYINGS
Published on October 16, 2016, under Quotes
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7. Good coffee is a pleasure good friends are a treasure
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Fisherman’s Friend
@Fishermans_UK
Good coffee is a pleasure, good #friends are a treasure. RT if you agree. #betterwithfriends
10:58 AM - 17 Nov 2016
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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