Coffee bars are always crowded, particularly in the morning when Italians need a jolt of caffeine before heading off to work.

While having a cup of coffee in America often means sitting and slowly sipping, you'll have to pay for that privilege in Italy where most people stand at a bar.

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Italian bars also manage to shift far greater volumes of coffee, adds Marco Cappellari, who runs specialist coffee bar Melaleuca in Florence. “Here, there is a stand-up, walk-in-walk-out culture ...

That's 600 shots per person, consumed in any of Italy's 110,000 coffee bars. Milan, nexus of the fashion world, has some 600 cafés alone. Sponsored Content by Taboola. Popular Reads.

It was a trip to Milan in the 1980s where he saw locals gathered at coffee bars that inspired Howard Schultz, chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, to set up a coffee shop in America. The ...