There are coffee house chains in various parts of the world.  
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company has 210 Cafe Coffee Day shops 
in India and expects to have 500 there within a couple of years and 
also plans to open another 50 abroad (including coffee-rich Vienna but 
mostly in China).

On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:54 AM, Gerald Groenewald wrote:

> In his recent book, The Coffee House: A Cultural History (Wiedenfeld & 
> Nicolson, 2004), Markmann Ellis dates the resurgence of the coffee 
> house to the late 1950s (in Britain, that is) and the 1960s, and 
> associates it with the so-called 'Angry Young Men' movement (Martin 
> Amis and co). Ellis also points out that while most of the well-known 
> chains started in the 1970s it was only in the 1990s that they started 
> to become so internationally successful (most notably Starbucks). I 
> should say that all of this is of course from a British perspective.
>   
> Gerald Groenewald
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>  From: David Fahey
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> Subject: contemporary coffee house chains
>
> Does anybody have an idea why coffee house chains started their success
> story in the 1970s or thereabouts?  Both Starbucks and the mall-chain
> Gloria Jean began in the 70s which is why I single out this decade.
> Maybe a later time when the coffee houses began to perk is more
> important to study.  Must confess ignorance.  By the way, I am mostly a
> hot tea drinker and my wife a year round iced tea drinker.  Am glad to
> hear that tea houses are now booming in parts of the USA (but, sadly,
> not in SW Ohio).  PS: I recall that in his study of the Chicago/Boston
> saloon Duis argued that where to drink is as important historically as
> what to drink.  This may be true for hot caffeine drinks as well as for
> alcoholic beverages.  Maybe we should also ask the question when.  I
> notice that the fast food restaurants say that at breakfast they now
> sell as many chilled soft drinks as hot coffee.
>