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It
is
a
good
cafe
to
spend
time
with
friends
and
family.
A
coffeehouse,
coffee
shop,
or
café
is
an
establishment
that
primarily
serves
various
types
of
coffee,
espresso,
latte,
and
cappuccino.
Some
coffeehouses
may
serve
cold
drinks,
such
as
iced
coffee
and
iced
tea,
as
well
as
other
non-caffeinated
beverages.
A
coffeehouse
may
also
serve
food,
such
as
light
snacks,
sandwiches,
muffins,
fruit,
or
pastries.
In
continental
Europe,
some
cafés
also
serve
alcoholic
beverages.
Coffeehouses
range
from
owner-operated
small
businesses
to
large
multinational
corporations.
Some
coffeehouse
chains
operate
on
a
franchise
business
model,
with
numerous
branches
across
various
countries
around
the
world.
While
café
may
refer
to
a
coffeehouse,
the
term
"café"
generally
refers
to
a
diner,
British
café
(colloquially
called
a
"caff"),
"greasy
spoon"
(a
small
and
inexpensive
restaurant),
transport
café,
teahouse
or
tea
room,
or
other
casual
eating
and
drinking
place.[1][2][3][4][5]
A
coffeehouse
may
share
some
of
the
same
characteristics
of
a
bar
or
restaurant,
but
it
is
different
from
a
cafeteria.
Many
coffeehouses
in
the
Middle
East
and
in
West
Asian
immigrant
districts
in
the
Western
world
offer
shisha
(actually
called
nargile
in
Levantine
Arabic,
Greek,
and
Turkish),
flavored
tobacco
smoked
through
a
hookah.
An
espresso
bar
is
a
type
of
coffeehouse
that
specializes
in
serving
espresso
and
espresso-based
drinks.
From
a
cultural
standpoint,
coffeehouses
largely
serve
as
centers
of
social
interaction:
a
coffeehouse
provides
patrons
with
a
place
to
congregate,
talk,
read,
write,
entertain
one
another,
or
pass
the
time,
whether
individually
or
in
small
groups.
A
coffeehouse
can
serve
as
an
informal
club
for
its
regular
members.
As
early
as
the
1950s
Beatnik
era
and
the
1960s
folk
music
scene,
coffeehouses
have
hosted
singer-songwriter
performances,
typically
in
the
evening.
The
most
common
English
spelling
café,
is
the
French,
Portuguese,
and
Spanish
spelling,
and
was
adopted
by
English-speaking
countries
in
the
late
19th
century.
The
Italian
spelling,
caffè,
is
also
sometimes
used
in
English.
In
Southern
England,
especially
around
London
in
the
1950s,
the
French
pronunciation
was
often
facetiously
altered
to
/kæf/
and
spelt
caff.
The
English
words
coffee
and
café
derive
from
the
Italian
word
for
coffee,
caffè—first
attested
as
caveé
in
Venice
in
1570—and
in
turn
derived
from
Arabic
qahwa
(قهوة).
The
Arabic
term
qahwa
originally
referred
to
a
type
of
wine,
but
after
the
wine
ban
by
Islam,
the
name
was
transferred
to
coffee
because
of
the
similar
rousing
effect
it
induced.
European
knowledge
of
coffee
(the
plant,
its
seeds,
and
the
drink
made
from
the
seeds)
came
through
European
contact
with
Turkey,
likely
via
Venetian-Ottoman
trade
relations.
The
English
word
café
to
describe
a
restaurant
that
usually
serves
coffee
and
snacks
rather
than
the
word
coffee
that
describes
the
drink,
is
derived
from
the
French
café.
The
first
café
in
France
is
believed
to
have
opened
in
1660.
The
first
café
in
Europe
is
believed
to
have
been
opened
in
Belgrade,
Serbia
in
1522
as
a
Kafana
(Serbian
coffee
house).
The
translingual
word
root
/kafe/
appears
in
many
European
languages
with
various
naturalized
spellings,
including
Portuguese,
Spanish,
and
French
(café);
German
(Kaffee);
Polish
(kawa);
Serbian
(кафа
/
kafa);
Ukrainian
(кава,
'kava');
and
others.
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