# Where's the weirdest place you've seen a coffee bar/kiosk?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-weirdest-place-youve-seen-a-coffee-bar-kiosk/416546 "2007-08-22T20:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-weirdest-place-youve-seen-a-coffee-bar-kiosk/416546/1 "2007-08-22T20:02:03Z")

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I thought it was odd when coffee bars started popping up in movie theaters, but then I visited one of our local library branches not too long ago, and they have a Starbucks kiosk inside the library. I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around this one.

Anyone feel like topping that?

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**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-weirdest-place-youve-seen-a-coffee-bar-kiosk/416546/2 "2007-08-22T20:05:54Z")

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The Student Learning Center at UGA is a four-floor electronic library, study hall, and collection of classrooms. There’s a Jittery Joe’s stuck randomly on the second floor (and thank Og for it, especially during finals). The main library here also has a small restaurant in it, although I’ve never eaten at it.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-weirdest-place-youve-seen-a-coffee-bar-kiosk/416546/3 "2007-08-22T20:17:27Z")

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A [Presbyterian church](http://www.preshouse.org/abt.home.cfm) in Madison, Wisconsin has a pub/café open to the public in its basement. I like how the website justifies this oddity, using Oprah-speak:

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> Pubs and cafés are where communities gather and share ideas, where thoughts are processed and dialog takes place.

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-weirdest-place-youve-seen-a-coffee-bar-kiosk/416546/4 "2007-08-22T20:19:39Z")

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There’s one in the Emergency Room at the hospital where I work.

There’s also a drive-through one off the freeway in the middle of Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base. I should explain that, although there is essentially a whole town built at Camp Pendleton, what you see from the freeway are miles and miles of open land.