As I pointed out to another person, coffee was a worldwide commodity by the 18th century, and a flourishing coffee culture. Coffee shops most certainly did exist!
Highly-incorrectly, though. Actual historians cite the cheap coffee as bringing the rich and poor together in coffeehouses daily, and helping drive social reforms of the era.
So they simply didn’t exist. That’s how that worked.
As I pointed out to another person, coffee was a worldwide commodity by the 18th century, and a flourishing coffee culture. Coffee shops most certainly did exist!
Except the affordability was the issue, as previously pointed out.
Highly-incorrectly, though. Actual historians cite the cheap coffee as bringing the rich and poor together in coffeehouses daily, and helping drive social reforms of the era.