Across the chain · topic 5 of 5
Cafés & retail
Where coffee meets people: cafés and bars, service and menus, the design of the spaces around the cup, and selling coffee to take home.
Where it comes up
- CupCoffeehouses from Mecca to EuropeHow the coffeehouse spread from Sufi circles in Yemen to Mecca, Cairo and Istanbul, then to Oxford, London, Vienna and Leipzig, and which of the famous dates and stories are documented.Source-checked
- CupEras and waves of coffeeThe “first, second and third wave” story of coffee – where the terms came from, what each wave is said to stand for, the dated milestones behind it, and why historians call the model too narrow.Source-checked
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