咖啡是主角的店
最貼近招牌字面的一支：進門的理由就是那杯咖啡。
noun · A2
A small place that sells coffee and other drinks, usually with cakes, sandwiches or other light food, where you can take your drink away or sit down and stay for a while.
咖啡店
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a door with the word coffee over it, and a room behind the door where people sit down. The name over the door stays the same everywhere in the English-speaking world. What is on the tables behind it does not. So the safest way to read this word is to ask where you are standing.
可以想成一扇門，門上寫著 coffee，門後是一個讓人坐下來的空間。招牌到哪裡都一樣。門後端上桌的東西卻會變。在今天…更多收起
可以想成一扇門，門上寫著 coffee，門後是一個讓人坐下來的空間。招牌到哪裡都一樣。門後端上桌的東西卻會變。在今天多數地方，那是一杯咖啡配一塊蛋糕；在美國，可能是一整份早餐；在英國的百貨或飯店裡，是逛累了歇腳的地方；在馬來西亞和新加坡，指的是老式的 kopitiam。所以讀這個詞的時候，先問一句：這句話是在哪裡說的。From the word’s history
The supplied source entry gives the formation simply as coffee plus shop, and notes separately that the Dutch use of coffeeshop is a pseudo-anglicism borrowed back from this phrase.
資料上寫的組成很單純：coffee（咖啡）加 shop（店）。同一筆資料另外註明，荷蘭文的 coffeeshop 是從這個英文詞借過去後再變意思的。
Wiktionary entry for coffee shop, supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1167718816:5350)
Three branches
掛著咖啡之名的吃飯地方
同一塊招牌，門後卻是一間供餐的地方。招牌沒有換，只是重心從飲料移到了食物。
noun · B1
In American English, a small plain restaurant that serves simple meals at low prices, often from early morning until late.
簡餐小館
在地借去用的說法
英文的兩個字被在地拿去指自己本來就有的那種店，所以招牌讀得懂，指的東西卻要靠當地知識。
noun · C1
In Malaysia and Singapore, a traditional everyday eating place that serves local coffee and tea with simple hot food; local people also call it a kopitiam.
傳統咖啡店（kopitiam）