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Looking Back and Ahead with Coffee Shops and Franchises

If you want to trace the history of coffee shops in the world, you will need to go back a good five hundred years. In those days, while locals gathered in Mecca, Imams were concerned about the negative consequences which might arise from so many citizens meeting together. Coffee shops were already a force that could not be ignored. Their popularity and influence on society has only increased over five centuries. English monarchs were worried about them in the 1800s; musicians and hippies gathered in them in the 1960s; today just about everyone passes through the doors of a coffee shop every month.

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Understanding Countries and Their Different Coffee Beans

There’s more to drinking coffee than just walking into a shop and asking for a small, medium, or large cup of whatever the house blend is. The amount of time and effort it takes to grow and harvest coffee beans around the world deserves a little more respect from the average consumer, especially since the delicate taste you get has nothing to do with the barista at Starbucks, and more to do with faraway volcanic slopes and mountain ridges.

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