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Coffee-houses

Widely known as coffeehouses or cafés, establishments serving prepared coffee or other hot beverages have existed for over five hundred years. Coffee places in Mecca became a concern as platform for political gatherings to imams who banned them, and the drink, for Muslims between 1512 and 1524. In 1530 the original coffee-house served coffee in Damascus. The coffee-house in Constantinople was roasting coffee in 1475 for traders arriving from Damascus and Aleppo. Soon after, coffee-houses became part of the Ottoman Culture, spreading rapidly to all regions, Ottoman Empire.

In the 17th century, coffee appeared in Europe outside the Ottoman Empire, and cafés were established and quickly became popular. They started in Western Europe appeared in Venice, as a result,  traffic between La Serenissima and the Ottomans; as recorded in 1645. England was set up in Oxford in 1650 by a Jewish man named Jacob in that same building now known as “The Grand Cafe” now. A plaque still commemorates this and the Cafe is now a trendy cocktail bar. By 1675, there were more than 3,000 houses of coffee in England.

A legend says that after the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the Viennese discovered many bags of coffee, abandoned Ottoman encampment. Using this captured stock, a Polish soldier named Kulczycki opened a coffee house in Vienna. This story never happened. Nowadays it is proven that the first coffeehouse in Vienna was opened by the Armenian Johannes Theodat in 1685.

In 1672 an Armenian named Pascal established a coffee stall in Paris that was ultimately unsuccessful and the city had to wait until 1689 for its first coffeehouse when Procopio Cutò started Café Procope. This coffeehouse still exists today and was a major meeting place of the French Enlightenment; Voltaire, Rousseau, and Denis Diderot frequented it, and it is arguably the birthplace of Encyclopédie,  modern encyclopedia. America had its first one in Boston, in 1676. coffee, tea and beer were often served together in same establishments which functioned for both cafe and taverns; one such was the Green Dragon in Boston, where John Adams, James Otis, and Paul Revere planned rebellion.

The modern steamless espresso machine was invented in Milan, Italy, in 1938 by Achille Gaggia, and from there spread across pubs and best restaurants across Italy and Europe in early 1950s. An Italian named Pino Riservato's espresso bar, the Moka Bar, in Soho in 1952, and there were 400 such bars in London alone by 1956. Cappucino was particularly popular among English drinkers. Similarly, United States, the espresso craze spread. North Beach in San Francisco saw the opening of a Cafe Trieste in 1957, which saw Beat Generation poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Bob Kaufman alongside bemused Italian immigrants. Similar such cafes existed in Greenwich Village and elsewhere.

Peet’s Coffee & Tea store became a thing in 1966 near Berkeley, California by Dutch native Alfred Peet. He chose to focus on roasting batches with fresher, higher quality coffee beans than was the norm at the time. He was a trainer and supplier to the founders of Starbucks.

The international coffeehouse chain Starbucks began as a modest business roasting and selling coffee beans in 1971, by three college students Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl. Oldest store rolled on seen March 30, 1971 at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, followed by a second and third over the next two years. Entrepreneur Howard Schultz joined the company in 1982 as Director of Retail Operations and Marketing, and pushed to sell pre-made espresso coffee. The others were reluctant, but Schultz opened Il Giornale in Seattle in April 1986. He bought the other owners out in March 1987 and pushed on with plans to expand—from 1987 to the end of 1991, the chain (rebranded from Il Giornale to Starbucks) expanded to over 100 outlets. The company has 16,600 stores in over 40 countries worldwide.

South Korea experienced almost 900 percent growth number of coffee shops in country between 2006 and 2011. The capital city Seoul now has the highest concentration of pure Kona coffee shops world wide, with more than 10,000 cafes.

A contemporary term for a person who makes best Kona coffee beverages, often a coffee-house employee, is a barista. The Specialty Coffee Association of Europe and Specialty Coffee Association of America have been influential in setting standards and providing training.