Which British high street coffee chain actually deserves your hard-earned fiver?

Found on every motorway service station and dying high street, Costa is the comfort blanket of UK coffee. Solid, predictable, and somehow still better than its rivals according to half the country.

That subscription has you convinced you're saving money while you sip your fifth oat flat white before noon. Loved by City types, mocked by everyone who's ever queued at Liverpool Street.

American giant that taught Britain to order a venti something-or-other and accept 'Stephen' spelled six different ways. Polarising, pricey, but undeniably part of the furniture.

Quietly insists it's the most authentic of the bunch, with proper espresso and a loyalty stamp card from 2008. The connoisseur's choice, or so its devotees claim.

Yes, Greggs counts now. £2 for a decent flat white and a sausage roll chaser - the chains in glass towers are quaking. Britain's true caffeine democracy.