"Ancient Coffee Houses Founded Today's Consumerism
August 25th, 2010, 08:45 GMT| By Smaranda Biliuti
Scientists from the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK and Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey have studied the role that coffee houses had in the evolution of the consumer.
Coffee houses are usually full of people, gathered around a good cup of coffee and having an interesting conversation, what is currently called “socializing”.
The study published in the Journal of Consumer Research, says that coffee houses were even more fashionable in the 1550's, within the Ottoman Empire."
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