Why do you think that the demand for coffee is less elastic than the demand for restaurant meals?
What will be an ideal response?
It may have to do with the availability of good substitutes or percentage of the consumer's budget. People can always eat at home. But it's harder to find a good substitute for coffee, so people are less sensitive to coffee price changes than to restaurant meal price changes. Also coffee is a much smaller percentage of the consumer's budget than meals.
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