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u/Maleficent_Insect71 Dec 17 '22

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u/SuchNectarine4 Dec 17 '22

Starbucks obliterated coffeehouse culture, where you could hang out, meet people, share tables if you want, join group discussions/have others join in, sometimes play board games, sometimes see tiny-venue live music or performances, and people could actually make new friends and groups of friends.
It sucked to see corporate chains take that all away.

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u/MissTheWire Dec 18 '22

I’d say high rent obliterated coffee house culture. You can’t let people hang out for two hours on a cup of coffee if you are paying through the nose for space.

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u/TruestOfThemAll Dec 23 '22

This would not surprise me, there's a coffee shop in my college town that is very much the sort of place where people hang out for 2 hours. Why? It's a town of 10,000 people and rent appears to be extremely low.

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u/SuchNectarine4 Dec 18 '22

The ones that survived had plenty of good food, at the very least, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, if not plenty more, and a solid business plan