coffee shop

Definition of coffee shop

: a small restaurant

Examples of coffee shop in a Sentence

We bought a muffin at the hotel's coffee shop.

Recent Examples on the Web Female baristas were nonexistent in Medina when the sisters first got hired at a coffee shop whose owner had decided to brave it. — Vivian Yee, New York Times, "Saudi Law Granted Women New Freedoms. Their Families Don’t Always Agree.," 14 Mar. 2020 Seidel, who works as a barista at a Boston coffee shop, said afterwards at a press conference for the medalists. — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, "The Many Surprises of the Olympic Marathon Trials," 2 Mar. 2020 The story centers Cassie, a med school dropout who lives with her parents and works at a quaint coffee shop. — Joi Childs, Teen Vogue, ""Promising Young Woman" Is an Unapologetic Revenge Fantasy Aimed at Rape Culture," 30 Jan. 2020 On Sunday, two of the students — 21-year-old juniors Sydney Brown and Christopher Garcia — met me at a coffee shop near the UTSA campus to digest their experiences. — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, "Ayala: San Antonio overcompensates for the sins of others with its MLK events," 14 Jan. 2020 After graduating high school, Tice lived in Portland, Oregon and planned to play a lot of music and got a job at a coffee shop to support himself. — Bon Appétit, "The New Oat Drink on The Block," 13 Dec. 2019 The 60-year-old attorney in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, read his Bible at a coffee shop, part of his daily devotional, after listening to part of the hearing Wednesday morning. — Tamara Lush, Twin Cities, "‘Bits and pieces’: Americans view impeachment on their terms," 13 Nov. 2019 That could help Google know that a runner stopped at a coffee shop on the way home. — Author: Matt O'brien, Anchorage Daily News, "One big step: Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion," 1 Nov. 2019 In a conversation at a Wauwatosa coffee shop, Kelly speaks slowly and quietly. — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Abolishing 'normal' and 'abnormal': How the long-marginalized autism community is becoming a bellwether of social change," 24 Oct. 2019

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17 Mar 2020

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“Coffee shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffee%20shop. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.

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