SIR – Re the letter from David Rhodes (May 10). We all know the high prices we pay for a tea or a coffee in restaurants, but we also know that they will not buy their tea bags, Typhoo or otherwise, from the pound shop.

He does not know, and neither do I, what price the restaurant in question pays for its tea bags. It might, in fact, buy good-quality loose tea but it has to be brewed, poured into tea cups and have staff serve it with a milk jug and sugar basin etc.

I know they will make a lot of profit on it, but not as much as he suggests. He seems to think all organisations are greedy, and I am surprised he still buys the T&A, but long may he do so. Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley