The real estate developer Jamestown approached Kaffe 1668, which has two shops in TriBeCa, about opening a tiny coffee bar in the lobby of an office building at Fifth Avenue and 45th Street; Michael Phillips, Jamestown's chief operating officer, said the company wanted a shop that would set the tone for the building.
So a batch of start-ups that includes about a dozen in Los Angeles County have built online marketplaces in which any company, from a tiny coffee shop to 20th Century Fox, can sign similar deals with minimal effort.
Nearly 25 years after her parents started a tiny coffee roasting company in a basement in Duluth, Minnesota, Alyza Bohbot agreed to take full ownership of the family business.
Add a beanbag and a tiny coffee table in the corner.
If you can't tell from the image, that's a tiny frying pan mounted on top of a tiny toaster, all attached to a tiny coffee machine.
Working for a Swedish housewares company, Schultz made a business call in 1981 on a tiny coffee-bean store in Pike Place Market in Seattle, was handed a mug with freshly brewed coffee and, as he explains in his book "took a small, tentative sip.... My eyes shot wide open...
Mexico officials raised the death toll to 80 after devastating storms led to massive landslide smashing through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country's southern mountains, where fresh waves of rain threatened to unleash more danger for rescue workers trying to evacuate the last residents from the isolated hamlet.
"Chocolate is no longer chocolate," said Mr. Constant, perched in the tiny coffee bar next to his store.
In other words, he says, use an incredibly tiny coffee cup.
Tokyo's Kissa Seikatsu cafe may be only a three-minute walk from the Higashi Koenji subway station in the Suginami ward, but the tiny coffee shop is a world away from the city's bustling chaos.
