Coffee Tycoon gives sim games a jolt of caffeine! It’s packed with awesome graphics, tons of features, and lots of fun! Start fresh with one store and customize your coffee empire from the ground up. Choose a name, logo, store design, and even what city your first store is in, from New York to Seattle and spots in between. Coffee Tycoon is filled with dozens of charming characters, and with dozens of store upgrades and coffee recipes to customize your business. How successful it is… is up to you!

[10.65M] [Win98/Me/2k/XP] [Free Trial] [Shareware] [Jamopolis Interactive]

The current spate of chain coffee shops such as Starbucks and Second Cup have a clear lineal descent from the espresso and pastry centered Italian coffeehouses of the Italian-American immigrant communities in the major US cities, notably New York City’s Little Italy and Greenwich Village, Boston’s North End, and San Francisco’s North Beach. Both Greenwich Village and North Beach were major haunts of the Beats, who became highly identified with these coffeehouses. As the youth culture of the 1960s evolved, non-Italians consciously copied these coffeehouses. Before the rise of the Seattle-based Starbucks chain, Seattle (and other parts of the Pacific Northwest) had a thriving, largely countercultural coffeehouse scene; Starbucks cleaned up, standardized, genericized, and “mainstreamed” this model.

The liquor laws in many areas in the United States generally prevent anyone under the age of 21 from entering bars, so coffeehouses in that country can often be important youth gathering places. [Encyclopedia Lockergnome]