I have long since lost count of the coffee shop clerks {they are certainly not brewers of any sort} who I have had to dissuade from adding ingredients other than water, then a tea bag, to my take out in the AM.

If you want decent tea, add the water to the tea or tea bag, let it steep for 3 or 4 minutes, remove the tea [leaves in whatever form] from the cup and then add your sugar, etc.

Mickey D's and many others will only add the bag to your tea under protest. By the time you can add the tea bag, the water has lost those few critical degrees of hot water.

Let's boycott those places who conspire against a decent cup of hot tea.