Originally Posted by
Jim Koepke
Back in my high school days they were called soda fountains.
During college we hung out at the coffee houses. In Berkeley there was the Forum and the Mediterranean on the same block as Pepe's Pizza. All three were popular places to socialize. The Forum was more for various coffee drinks, some sodas and food. The Mediterranean served Italian sodas, coffee and some food. Those old haunts are all gone now.
Today Starbucks is the modern coffee shop everywhere you go. There are a few others. The effects of too much coffee can be nerve jangling.
In some coffee shops they call the decaf no fat latte with artificial sweetener a "why bother."
jtk