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A rented chair, a legal stimulant, and permission to do nothing productively.
means A small restaurant serving coffee, light meals, and a place to sit for a while.
from From French café, meaning coffee — which itself traces back through Turkish kahve to Arabic qahwa. The drink lent its name to the room it was served in, so you're technically ordering 'a coffee' and sitting inside 'a coffee.'
- etymology
- French for coffee, borrowed from Turkish kahve
- economics
- you're paying rent on a table, not the drink
- wifi password
- usually the real reason you stayed three hours
- vienna 1700s
- invented the idea of reading newspapers for free there