I don't know if Turk's Head Coffee House was a chain like Starbucks's, but there were quite a few of them. Altogether at least two thousand (2000) coffee houses were in business in London by 1700 A.D.
Considering that coffee by the pound cost as much as a working man's used winter coat, London residents must have been for the most part well-off financially at that time. Hey, wait a minute. Less than a pound of coffee costs us as much as a used winter coat too.
Coffee houses were attended by people who wanted to discuss politics, science, poetry, literature and the like.
Some information from A History of Coffee Houses, Ayton Ellis, 1956
