Coffee shop owners upbeat despite economic slowdown

Coffee shop owners do not expect the economic slowdown to affect their business, despite slowing consumer spending.

Emmet Daly, owner of the Cafe Sol chain in Dublin, said that sales were up 15 per cent this year compared with last year. He plans to open two more stores by the end of this year, bringing the Cafe Sol chain to 13 stores. ‘‘Things are going great, even with all the bad news about ...