Tim Hortons invades New York City
A former Dunkin' Donuts franchise owner has quarreled with the Dunkin' Donuts organization which no longer wants his business. As a result, he is turning his 13 New York City properties into Tim Hortons outlets. The Canadian coffee, donut, and lunch shops are unfamiliar in New York City, and competition is fierce there, so observers are doubtful about success. For more, see here.
Posted by David Fahey on July 11, 2009 at 07:47 AM in Canada, Coffee, Drinking Spaces, United States | Permalink
British coffee and deli chain put into "administration"
Coffee Republic, a British coffee and deli chain, is struggling during the recession. It has been put in "administration." For more, see here.
Posted by David Fahey on July 7, 2009 at 07:14 PM in Britain, Coffee, Drinking Spaces | Permalink
Le sandwich versus French cafe (with wine and espresso)
The new French habit of eating a sandwich at lunch (sometimes at one's desk) is another blow at the French cafe and a slow-paced lunch there, complete with wine and espresso. Compared with a half million cafes fifty years ago, France now has only 38,600. For more, see here.
Posted by David Fahey on June 29, 2009 at 02:01 PM in Coffee, Drinking Spaces, France, Wine | Permalink
'Predrinking' and Drunkenness
Alcohol control policy researchers are debating the relationship between these two topics in Addiction magazine, 104, Jan 2009. A link to the first two pages of commentary (following an article on 'pre-drinking' by S. Wells, K Graham, and J. Purcell) is here. The categorical accuracy/utility of the term 'predrinking' is called into question by R. Room and M. Livingston.
Posted by Dave Trippel on June 25, 2009 at 01:15 AM in Alcohol (general), Drinking Spaces, Licensing and Legislation | Permalink
Liverpool public house (book)
Alistair Mutch, The Liverpool pub: a cultural and business history (Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2008).
Posted by David Fahey on June 19, 2009 at 09:49 AM in Books, Britain, Drinking Spaces | Permalink
Sport, Beer, and Gender (book)
Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life. Wenner , Lawrence A. and Steven J. Jackson, eds. (Series: Popular culture and everyday life v. 17) New York: Peter Lang, 2009, 317 p. Here's the link to the publishers webpage for the book.
Posted by Dave Trippel on June 16, 2009 at 09:05 PM in Beer, Books, Drinking Spaces, Sport | Permalink
Proposed licensing Act, 1908, for England and Wales (article)
Luci Gosling, "Trouble Brewing: the background to the much-contested Licensing Act,
1908," History
Today 58/3 (2008): 21-23. Should be licensing bill as House of Lords rejected it.
Posted by David Fahey on June 14, 2009 at 09:52 AM in Drinking Spaces | Permalink
Rise and fall olf public house closing hours in Britain (article)
John Robert Greenaway, "Calling ‘Time' on Last Orders: the Rise and Fall of
Public House Closing Hours in Britain," Revue française de civilisation britannique 14/2 (2007): 181-96.
Posted by David Fahey on June 14, 2009 at 09:49 AM in Drinking Spaces | Permalink
Alistair Mutch replies to David Gutzke re the English public house (article)
Alistair Mutch, "Theories and Evidence: A Response to David Gutzke, 'Progressivism and the History of the Public House, 1850-1950'," Cultural and
Social History--The Journal of the Social History Society 5/2(2008): 219-26.
Mutch, the author of several articles about the English public house, had been criticized by Gutzke in his book and elsewhere.
Posted by David Fahey on June 14, 2009 at 09:39 AM in Britain, Drinking Spaces | Permalink
Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs (book)
Samuel Adams Drake, Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs (BiblioBazaar, 2009).
Posted by David Fahey on June 3, 2009 at 08:23 AM in Books, Drinking Spaces, United States | Permalink
