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adjl posted...

This is pretty much the reason. Evening coffee isn't really a thing for many people, and smaller coffee shops generally won't make enough from the handful of people that will stop in to justify paying staff for the extra 8 hours you're proposing. Starbucks and the like have done enough to diversify their menus and establish an identity of being a hangout spot that they can get away with it, but that's a tall order for a small business.

So is it standard for small coffee shops to close that early? I get the impression from your post that it is. The last two places I lived all the ones I knew of pretty much stayed open to 10 or later and were just local businesses. Maybe Im just now experiencing the norm or had some bias of going to the ones I knew people went to which happened to be established hang out spots.