Illustration: An editorial still life connecting a ceramic coffee cup at a small cafe table, an unbranded bag of roasted beans and a manual coffee brewer. Leafy suburban shopfront suggested softly in the background.

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A coffee before work, a long catch-up and a bag of beans for the kitchen are three different shopping trips. Yet a search for “coffee near me” can put them all on the same map.

That is the useful question behind this part of The Maroondah Exchange’s food research: what can you actually do at the place you have found? A business can be part of the local coffee scene without operating as a sit-down café.

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