Coffee Shops in America

Coffee shops that are very uniquely American can be found all over this great country of ours. There are coffee shops in big American cities and coffee shops in dusty little off-the-beaten-path towns that you have probably never heard of. Now I am not talking about big chain coffee shops like Starbucks here. I’m talking about the locally famous coffee shop that are the gathering places for friends or an escape hatch for those who can’t stand being chained to a desk for even one more minute.

In many of the large American cities, locally famous coffee shops offer wi-fi Internet service, sometimes even for free. In those small, out-of-the-way towns, there is rarely a wi-fi connection offered, but you can find out who is getting married, divorced, having a baby, or the going price of cows and hogs.

There is one thing that coffee shops all over America have in common, though. They all smell the same. There is …

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