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The modern coffee shop is modeled on the espresso- and pastry-centered Italian coffee houses that arose with the establishment of Italian-American immigrant communities in major U.S. cities such as New York City's Little Italy and Greenwich Village. New York coffee shops were often visited by the Beat poets and writers in the 1950s. It wasn't long before Seattle and other parts of the Pacific Northwest were developing coffee shops as part of a thriving counterculture scene. The Seattle-based coffee company Starbucks took this model and brought it into mainstream culture.
現代咖啡館是模仿意大利咖啡館而建的，這些意大利咖啡館以賣蒸餾咖啡和酥皮點心為主，它們是隨著美國大城市中意大利裔移民聚集區（如紐約的小意大利和格林尼治村）的建立而出現的。20世紀50年代，垮掉的一代的詩人和作家經常光顧紐約的咖啡館。不久，在西雅圖和太平洋西北部的其他地方也開始出現咖啡館，并成為蓬勃發展的反主流文化的一部分。總部位于西雅圖的咖啡公司星巴克采用了這種模式，并將其帶到主流文化之中。
Although coffee houses today continue to serve their traditional role as lively social centers in many communities, they have also adapted to the times. Rediscovering their roles as centers of information exchange and communication, many coffee shops now provide their customers with Internet access and newspapers. It has become common to see someone sitting in Starbucks listening to music or surfing the Web on a laptop. Coffee shops today also have their unique, easy-to-recognize style: wooden furniture and comfortable sofas, paintings on walls and soft lighting, which combine to give coffee shops the cozy feeling of a home away from home.
盡管現在的咖啡館仍然像過去一樣，在很多地方扮演著活躍的社交活動中心的角色，但它們也適應了時代的發展。現在，許多咖啡店重新發現了它們作為信息交換和通訊中心的角色，因此顧客在這些店里可以上網、看報紙。經常可以看到人們在星巴克聽音樂或用筆記本上網。直到今天，咖啡館仍然具有其獨特、易識別的風格：木制的家具、舒適的沙發、墻上的繪畫以及柔和的燈光，所有這些元素給咖啡館營造了一種家一樣的溫暖舒適的氛圍。
