Caffeinating Campus
Rice Coffeehouse draws students, faculty and staff to its bustling home. How bustling? See these numbers.
![Mandy Quan '20](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/inline-images/180516_-Drinks_fitlow_045.jpg)
Summer 2018
By Alice Levitt
Photos by Jeff Fitlow
85,000 cups of coffee were sold last year. Thirty-six thousand of those were poured in mugs customers brought in themselves. So, in an average day, baristas pour 400–600 cups of drip coffee.
45: the number of students employed by the coffeehouse at a given time. Ten of those are managers.
94: the number of different menu items that were entered into the system in the last three years.
$2: the cost of a large cold brew, the ideal antidote to a steamy Houston morning.
![Bulletin board at Coffeehouse](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/inline-images/180516_-Drinks_fitlow_009.jpg)
0: the number of flat whites currently on the menu, but baristas will be happy to custom-make the trendy espresso drink to order.
100% of the coffeehouse’s beans come from local purveyor Katz Coffee. They originate from around the world, including Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Guatemala, but they’re all roasted in Houston.
95¢: the cost of any order of drip coffee if you bring your own cup.
5¢: of every Nutty Bee latte goes to the Planet Bee Foundation, which educates children to help combat the current bee crisis.
![Nutty Bee](/sites/g/files/bxs4576/files/inline-images/180516_-Drinks_fitlow_019.jpg)
Make Your Own Nutty Bee
In a 12-ounce cup, combine 1 shot of espresso, 1 pump of hazelnut syrup, 1/2 pump of vanilla syrup and a liberal squeeze of honey. Top with steamed milk, to taste.