Where there ain't no 7-11

I arrived at the corner gas station near Peace Corps Office in Lusaka at 7:00 am looking for a quick breakfast. They are closed!  I then made a pass around all four corner shops, a bakery and a grocery store only to find all of them closed as well. After going full circle, I found the original gas station now open. Low and behold there is an expresso machine on the counter--but no accessessories like those little mugs around it. So I ask the counter girl if it is working and she replys "Yes".  I order my coffee black so I can savor a good cuppa Java.  She is doing her thing with a cup under the steamer jet as I get out my money and when I look back up she has a can of instant Ricoffe which she is spooning into the cup.  I ask if she just made me Ricoffe and she replies "Yes".  So I guess the machine is used as a VERY expensive way of boiling water.