Coffee Shops Are On the Brink Of Losing Their Place In American Culture

Who’s going to want to spend the day holding meetings and typing inside a coffee shop now?

Max Ufberg
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10 min readJul 1, 2020

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There was a time, not too very long ago, when a place like Ox Coffee, a small café in Philadelphia’s Queen Village neighborhood, wouldn’t have been the object of nostalgia. In those days, Ox…

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Max Ufberg
GEN
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Writer and editor. Previously at Medium, Pacific Standard, Wired