"The rise of coffee shops was mostly due to the invention of the espresso machine in Italy in 1884, which made coffee brewing much faster. And in 1927, an Italian immigrant named Domenico Parisi took advantage of the growing trend in Europe and brought the first espresso machine to the United States to start making cappuccinos in a shop that he christened Caffe Reggio."
"Domenico Parisi spent his entire life savings of $1,000 to purchase it from Italy. It was a prototype that was first designed for the 1900 Paris World's Fair to show off the technology, and it was so old that it actually ran on coal. It wasn't until the '70s that it was converted to gas, although now it's no longer in use for making drinks because of the difficulty working with it compared to modern espresso machines."
Modern American coffee shops emerged in the 20th century after the espresso machine was invented in Italy in 1884. Domenico Parisi, an Italian immigrant, brought the first espresso machine to the United States in 1927 and opened Caffe Reggio in Greenwich Village. Caffe Reggio introduced cappuccino to America and remains the oldest continuously operating U.S. coffee shop. Parisi originally worked as a barber and converted his business to a cafe after customers ordered espresso while waiting. The cafe's centerpiece is a 1902 prototype espresso machine Parisi purchased for $1,000; the coal-fired machine was converted to gas in the 1970s and is no longer used for drinks.
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