I guess so, perhaps it should be called almost-instant coffee, and the food places should be renamed sometimes-fast food, it doesn't have the same ring to it but it would be a lot more accurate!No, I can just about cope with waiting long enough for a kettle to boil. However there are plenty of "fast food" places that are anything but fast.

1. Invest in some coffee beans & a coffee grinder.
2. Invest in a coffee machine or espresso maker
3.?????
4. COFFEE!!
He's a student, I somehow doubt he can afford to shell out ~£200 on a machine/grinder.
Dow Egberts Gold. Best instant coffee I've tasted
Had to share the memory!