Not only a place to enjoy coffee, coffee shops are also an important social space to form institutions that contribute to the development of nations.
Since the 18th century, the economic, political and social life of Europe has faced great changes due to the impact of the industrial revolution. It is during these transitional periods that coffee shops, with the characteristic of being a place where all social classes from different ethnicities, groups, and professions can meet, chat, discuss, trade, etc. become an important social space of countries with typical coffee-enriching culture, such as: France, England, Italy, Austria, the United States… The coffee shop was not only a place to enjoy coffee but also functioned as cultural spaces, academic spaces, community spaces for social connection. Considered as a part of urban cultural space in the development history of many countries, coffee shops have taken on many roles at the same time: schools, libraries, press distribution centers, theaters, political headquarters, literature – art clubs, business… contributing to the formation of important educational, cultural, political, and economic institutions.