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Coffee carts return

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Coffee carts return

In the early 1990s coffee carts returned to city streets. They quickly proved popular with office workers, their success leading to a multitude of new carts and takeaway coffee outlets. This cart is on The Terrace in Wellington.

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Ben Schrader, Street life – Street trade and people, 1915–2008, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20702/coffee-carts-return (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 4 March 2010.