BBC NEWS | Europe | Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture (#)

  „But that is the problem for many French, who do not want France to be just like the rest of the world: with standardised disposal cups of coffee - identical in 7,000 branches around the world - even if they are termed handcrafted beverages.“

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BBC - Get Writing - A Forum Conversation

  „I think I get it. Quite confusing, especially since in "Allo allo" (the TV series) they use the word cafe the same way as we do (but they're supposed to be French of course, not English )So in the UK a cafe is not a pub, but rather some kind of snack bar or coffee house (I won't use the word cofee shop here, because that indeed has quite a diffrent meaning in the Netherlands ) ?And hi fari. I'm looking forward to see what story it's going to be “

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BBC News | MEDIA REPORTS | China internet cafe debate hots up

  „Up to 15% of children in China's larger cities use internet cafes China announced two weeks ago that no new internet cafes would be approved for three months while the authorities re-registered existing cafes and carried out large-scale checks on their activities. As part of the crackdown, the authorities in Anshan in the north-east province of Liaoning installed "information purifiers" in more than a third of the city's 240 internet cafes - software denying users access to pornographic web sites. Meanwhile, in Shanghai, companies specialising in information are being encouraged to enter the internet cafe market so as "to weaken the function of internet cafes as entertainment". In a debate published on the Beijing Review's website, Communist Party officials warn of the dangers of "online heroin", saying access to pornographic sites and "illegal games" in internet cafes pose a threat to the country's younger generation.“

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/.../ 1302309.stm - Cached

BBC - Mid Wales Food - The Mecca Cafe

  „The Mecca Coffee House must stand out as one of the best coffee houses in Wales... If you're in Aber, make a point of visiting this cafe - if only to see the beautiful coffee machine they have - it has a chrome eagle on top of it!“

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/listings/food/pages/ cafe_mecca.shtml - Cached

BBC - Music Live - Events 23 April 2004

  „To find a cappuccino. After being turned away from one cafe that shut at 4, another that was open, but they'd shut the cappuccino machine down, and walking past various other cafes with chairs on tables, I managed to find one. £2.25 for a large cappuccino. Safe at last.“

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Notes 2, Peru 2/99

  „COCLA’s delicious beans can be enjoyed in our Organic Cafe Peru, and blends such as our Organic Breakfast Blend and Organic French Roast.“

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