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usonian

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4. Shut up and drink yr coffee!

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 12:27 PM

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Sounds like they copied the Berkeley off-campus esthetic I enjoyed over 30 years ago.

So, there's a funk index now?

Who else remembers "All you hippies look alike"???

Beats the regimented servers and customers of the big chains.

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Indie coffee shops are meant to counter corporate behemoths like Starbucks - so why do they all look the same? [View all] marmar Wednesday OP

Because nobody wants to hang out in a coffee shop that looks like an industrial kitchen or an expensive restaurant? tanyev Wednesday #1

i'm a black coffee kinda guy... ret5hd Wednesday #2

because the coffee shops that looked like a garage sale exploded vanished in the 1980s DBoon Wednesday #3

Shut up and drink yr coffee! usonian Wednesday #4

I don't think this group did their survey in Pittsburgh FakeNoose Wednesday #5

problem for Indies is cell-holes who park themselves for hours and block out incoming customers msongs Wednesday #6

I live in a metroplex and the coffee shops do NOT look the same Skittles Wednesday #7