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A board in the cafe of London's Royal Festival Hall, offering food and drinks which have been pre-paid for by other patrons. A suspended meal or pending meal is a meal which people pay for in advance, to be provided to those that request it later. The extra meal that they purchase is suspended; that is, the restaurant will mark down the sum of ...
Container in a Naples cafe, where customers can place a receipt for a second unserved coffee, for a later customer to retrieve and claim. A caffè sospeso (Italian for 'suspended coffee', pronounced [kafˈfɛ ssoˈspeːzo;-eːso]; in Neapolitan cafè suspiso) or pending coffee is a cup of coffee paid for in advance as an anonymous act of charity.
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Recent statistics (OECD Communications Outlook 2005) indicate that 40% of the total mobile phone market in the OECD region consists of prepaid accounts. This service was invented by Portuguese provider TMN, while researching for a means to increase penetration of mobile technology by allowing anyone to buy a fully working (usually requiring a quick and simple activation process) mobile phone ...
This list of notable coffeehouse chains catalogues the spread and markets share of coffeehouses world-wide. This list excludes the many companies which operate coffeeshops within retail establishments, notably bookstores and department stores, or restaurants or convenience stores which also serve coffee.
Entry gave access to books or print news. Coffeehouses boosted the popularity of print news culture and helped the growth of various financial markets including insurance, stocks, and auctions. Lloyd's of London had its origins in a coffeehouse run by Edward Lloyd, where underwriters of ship insurance met to do business.
CafePress, Inc. was founded as a privately owned company in 1999 by Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain. [2] [3]In July 2008, CafePress acquired the specialist photographic art printing business Imagekind, [4] and in September 2010 further acquired photo-to-canvas company Canvas On Demand to add to their platform of brands.