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Tag Archives: coffee shops
The steaming hot market for drive-thru coffee shops
Across the country there is an ongoing boom in freestanding drive-thru/walk-up coffee shops. These units rarely, if ever, incorporate indoor seating, though they may have some outdoor seats. Instead these shops are designed and meant for customers on the go … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, bicycling, branding, business, Cars, Cities, coffee shops/cafes, commerce, consumerism, Cuisine, economic development, food systems, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, marketing, placemaking, planning, product design, shopping, spatial design, Statistics, third places, traffic, Transportation, Uncategorized, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged BCubed, Biggby, cafes, coffee, coffee shops, double drive-thru, drive-throughs, drive-thru, Dutch Bros., food, freestanding, modular, planning, prefabricated construction, restaurants, Scooters, zoning
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Best brewed coffee shop names from around the globe
The following is a list of my favorite coffee shop names that have creative, catchy, edgy, and fun names from across the world. Part of the success in any business is a memorable name. That being said, a great name … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, branding, cities, coffee shops/cafes, Cuisine, culture, economic gardening, entertainment, fair trade, Food, food systems, fun, geography, land use, marketing, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, Small business, tourism, Travel
Tagged brews, cafes, cappuccino, coffee, coffee shops, espresso, java, joe, latte
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“Going to a ‘coffee’ go-go”
One the first things any traveling urban planner (or traditional tourist) will notice in the Medford–Ashland metropolitan area of Southern Oregon is the amazing plethora of freestanding drive-thru coffee shops. They are literally and figuratively everywhere! To clarify, when I say freestanding, drive-thru coffee … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, cities, coffee shops/cafes, Cuisine, culture, density, economic development, food systems, fun, geography, infrastructure, land use, music, North America, placemaking, planning, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, third places, tourism, transportation, urban planning, zoning
Tagged coffee shops, cuisine, Dutch Bros., food, Human Bean, land use, music, restaurants, Starbucks, Third places, transportation, urban planning
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Two celebrity cafes
For fun, here are photos of two coffee shops/cafes in the United Kingdom that have a certain amount of celebrity status associated with them. The first is the Beatles Coffee Shop in London. If you take the excellent and interesting … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, Cities, consumerism, Economy, entertainment, Europe, Food, fun, history, land use, pictures, Travel, U.K.
Tagged Beatles, cafes, coffee shops, Edinburgh, harry potter, London, UK
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Brewing up great third places – coffee shops (updated)
This is to be the first of a series of posts that I plan to write on “great third places.” It is an excellent and accurately descriptive term coined by Ray Oldenburg in his book, The Great Good Place. A third place … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, cities, culture, diversity, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, history, land use, music, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, tourism, urban planning
Tagged cafes, coffee shops, dining, hangouts, land use, restaurants, Third places
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