01-12-2016, 02:27 PM
First student cafe; Williams, ca. 1995.
Another "hard to believe that in a town with two universities"... we wouldn't have an ample supply of coffee houses, but that was the case until Williams opened in the plaza next to UWaterloo around 1995. This was such an immediate success that for the first few years it was open 24hrs. It took another fifteen years before coffee houses took off in KW, with DVLB, Coffee culture (x3), Startbucks (x6), Settlement Co., 1842, A matter of taste, Queen Street commons, Darlise, Honey Bake shop, Seven Shores, etc.
Another "hard to believe that in a town with two universities"... we wouldn't have an ample supply of coffee houses, but that was the case until Williams opened in the plaza next to UWaterloo around 1995. This was such an immediate success that for the first few years it was open 24hrs. It took another fifteen years before coffee houses took off in KW, with DVLB, Coffee culture (x3), Startbucks (x6), Settlement Co., 1842, A matter of taste, Queen Street commons, Darlise, Honey Bake shop, Seven Shores, etc.