The idea of a coffee shop being a place where people mingled comes from centuries past. Wikipedia has a decent article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_co

The idea of a coffee shop being a place where people mingled comes from centuries past. Wikipedia has a decent article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17th_and_18th_centuries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17...