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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.
现代咖啡馆是模仿意大利咖啡馆而建的，这些意大利咖啡馆以卖蒸馏咖啡和酥皮点心为主，它们是随着美国大城市中意大利裔移民聚集区（如纽约的小意大利和格林尼治村）的建立而出现的。20世纪50年代，垮掉的一代的诗人和作家经常光顾纽约的咖啡馆。不久，在西雅图和太平洋西北部的其他地方也开始出现咖啡馆，并成为蓬勃发展的反主流文化的一部分。总部位于西雅图的咖啡公司星巴克采用了这种模式，并将其带到主流文化之中。
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.
尽管现在的咖啡馆仍然像过去一样，在很多地方扮演着活跃的社交活动中心的角色，但它们也适应了时代的发展。现在，许多咖啡店重新发现了它们作为信息交换和通讯中心的角色，因此顾客在这些店里可以上网、看报纸。经常可以看到人们在星巴克听音乐或用笔记本上网。直到今天，咖啡馆仍然具有其独特、易识别的风格：木制的家具、舒适的沙发、墙上的绘画以及柔和的灯光，所有这些元素给咖啡馆营造了一种家一样的温暖舒适的氛围。
