Front of Café Gazú, café con piernas in Santiago de Chile

Café con piernas (Spanish for "coffee with legs") is a coffee shop style popular in Chile where the service staff are all or nearly all attractive women dressed in (by local standards) revealing clothing.[1] Coffee shops with waitresses serving in miniskirts and heels to businessmen had long been popular, but bikinis and similar attire accelerated the trend by the mid-1990s. The shops are very numerous and popular in Santiago.[2][3][4][5][6] It is frequently noted that the shops seem to contradict Chile's traditionally conservative culture.[7][8]

A more conservative café con piernas in Santiago, December 2010

Generally, the women walk on a raised catwalk behind the bar so as to maximize the view for patrons.[8] Not all locations feature women in bikinis or lingerie: some have stayed with the traditional miniskirt and heels.

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References

  1. ↑ Gallardo, Eduardo (13 October 1998). Coffee With Legs' Offends Some Chilean Sensibilities, Kentucky New Era (Associated Press)
  2. ↑ Flinn, John (12 February 2006). Out on a limb for coffee with legs, San Francisco Chronicle
  3. ↑ Chong, Kevin (28 May 2010). Santiago: A city with legs, Toronto Star
  4. ↑ Heather Murphy (September 17, 2008). "A Little Skin With Your Latte?". National Public Radio. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ Adam Fuller and Jason Snyder (August 1, 2008). "CAFÉ CON PIERNAS: GOOD 'TIL THE LAST DROP". The Santiago Times. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
  6. ↑ CAFÉ CON PIERNAS: ¡QUÉ SABOR! Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, chile.com (in Spanish), Retrieved March 22, 2011
  7. ↑ Ossa, Felipe (5 May 2000). Cafes ... with legs, Salon.com
  8. 1 2 (12 August 2003). Cafe With Legs Sizzles In Uptight Chile, Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A1, A13
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