Along with paying and training workers, coffee shop owners must keep the lights on — literally. That coffee shop you visit every morning has to pay rent, taxes and its electric bill. And as you probably know by now — those prices are going up.

Established in 1733, Caffè Gilli is Florence's oldest café. What was once a pastry shop has since become one of the city's most popular places to convene, not to mention one of its best bars, complete with impressive chandeliers and timeless decor.

The Zum Arabischen Coffe Baum café is considered as the oldest one throughout Europe – the first mentioning about it dates back to 1556. August II. der Starke, Johann von Goethe, Napoleon Bonaparte, Johann Bach, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt visited the café for a cup of coffee in their days.

Caffè Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice. It was established in 1720 and is the oldest coffee house in continuous operation in Italy, and one of the oldest in the world (the oldest being Queen's Lane Coffee House in Oxford, founded in 1654).