According to fresh research we were treated to this week, a growing number of young people are apparently too shy to set foot in a coffee shop.

​Stats provided by multinational health tech firm Philips suggest that seven per cent of Gen Z-ers have admitted they are too intimidated to approach a barista, and that almost half (47 per cent) are choosing to order their ‘Joe’ through delivery apps so as to avoid a wrong order or awkward interaction, skipping the cafe experience entirely.

Whatever next…

This so-called ‘coffee anxiety’ among the young apparently doesn’t stop with cafe staff interaction. One in ten Gen Z-ers are supposedly now turning to AI to figure out how to make a cup of coffee, with two out of five (38 per cent) also saying that making it for someone else fills them with dread, for fear of getting it wrong.

Members of Generation Z are currently around 13 to 28 years old. Aside from obvious points about the WWII generation having been drafted for service at this age and having had a lot more to be anxious about than making or ordering a brew, stats like this are of course generally........

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