Introduction of French Coffee Culture Paris Cafe is full of guests from morning till night

To Paris, the capital of the world, perhaps you have visited the Louvre, boarded the Eiffel Tower, toured the Seine River by boat, these famous cultural landscapes make you unforgettable, but have you noticed the cafes in Paris? It is also part of French culture. It may not be unusual or new, but through it you can feel the pulse of French life.

Cafes are everywhere on the streets of Paris, whether it is the Avenue Marini or the Champs Elysées around the Elysee Palace, where the presidential palace is located, or the narrow alleys of Montmartre. Especially at the intersection of two streets, it is often the cafe that occupies the best business position.

Dark red shop sign, canopy, sun umbrella is the uniform dress of Paris cafe; dark red table blanket, chair cover, napkin is the interior of cafe. They are as warm as coffee, and French parasol shade is in sharp contrast, coupled with the air filled with coffee fragrance, three-dimensional to stimulate the senses of visitors. Paris cafe thus moved many painters, French impressionist masters to create a lot of popular masterpieces.

Parisian cafes not only occupy the best intersections and golden triangles, but also often extend coffee seats and umbrellas onto the sidewalk to keep pedestrians away.

Cafes are Paris favorites!

Some people say that coffee shops are like tea houses in China, which is quite reasonable. But I think Parisian cafes are much denser than Chinese teahouses, and the crowds who patronize them spend much more time in cafes than traditional Chinese teahouses.

Parisian cafes are full of guests from morning to night. Customers are all kinds. In addition to leisure and communication, they also use cafes as snack shops, study rooms and conference rooms. Many French people skip breakfast and head to cafes first thing in the morning. French people love reading, love sunbathing, here can be satisfied: a cup of coffee sitting in a corner, reading a few hours of books, or sitting on the sidewalk coffee table to take off his coat basking in the sun, watching the various pedestrians and the latest models of cars speeding past on the streets of international metropolises, or just look at the sculptures of the eighteenth century in the street garden! It was so relaxing and comfortable. There were also individuals who took documents and computers to knock on the keyboard for a long time in the cafe, and there would never be a waiter to interfere.

Many coffee shops in Paris have a history of two or three hundred years, such as "Flower God" and "Pockop". Existentialist philosophers and writers who were popular in Europe in the early and middle of the last century often discussed and wrote here. Napoleon before his fortune also took his hat because he could not pay for coffee.

There are many stories in Paris cafes!

In Paris, on weekends and countless festivals, all shops are closed except cafes, which are usually open.

Apart from social and cultural traditions, the popularity of prices is also a factor in why coffee shops do so well. A cup of coffee usually costs about three euros, and the most famous cafes don't exceed five euros, which is really nothing for French people with an average monthly salary of more than 1,000 euros and a minimum wage of more than 800 euros.

It seems that the coffee shop business is booming and the profits must be considerable. Indeed, because it was a high-profit business, the French government stipulated that cafes were not allowed to be touched by outsiders. Like taxi owners, they had to be French nationals to run them. A medium-sized café in Paris, referred to locally as the "Big Bar", does not include the transfer of property management costs of about 400,000 euros, but two years to recover the investment.

Historically, Parisian cafes have also shared social responsibility for public toilets. Because Paris has few public toilets, rare public toilets are often charged, even at train stations and airports. Although the charge used to be only three francs to the current three hundred cents to one euro, but converted into RMB, it is a bit reluctant, often think of cafes free solution. But not all cafe waiters are so understanding, they can not understand the pain of unfamiliar tourists, often do not drink coffee light want to go to the bathroom. In that case, you either try your luck at a bigger cafe or bite the bullet and tip the waiter. While sketching by the Seine, I borrowed a set of tables and chairs from a cafe, and although the waiter did not interfere, my wife and I ordered two cups of coffee for ten euros and enjoyed the mood of Parisian coffee.

If the cafe closes, some anxious people will suffer. I have witnessed foreigners urinating in the street more than once, and I can only pretend not to see passers-by.

However, the situation has improved recently. The Paris city government has finally sympathized with the people and set up a large number of free mobile toilets in the streets. The stress in the cafe bathroom must have eased a lot.

Paris cafe style can be said to be a microcosm of European style, because other European countries coffee culture is also generally the same.