The coffee industry in NZ during WWII
New Zealanders have become great coffee drinks after the Americans came to New Zealand to do their training before going off to the Pacific to fight the Japanese for WW2. In America they drunk quite a bit of coffee and the New Zealanders didn't know much about it, they brought their coffee with them and New Zealanders were hooked and it has been drinking coffee since then and now New Zeland per capita consumption ranks among top 20 in the world, at 0.94 cup per day. (How did NZ become such a coffee-mad nation?, 2016)
Coffee bars during 6 o'clock closing
At around the 1917s bars starting closing at 6 o'clock, at first to was suppose to be a temporary war measure but it was made permanent the next year. It was made permanent because there was criticism on the drinking conditions and they wanted New Zealanders to cut back on their drinking. (NZhistory , 2016 )
1960/70s – effect of television, instant coffee
Americans came up with an answer to drinking coffee without going out to get it. Around the 1960s and 1970s the television was invented, people did not want to go out to drink their coffee anymore instead they wanted to watch their TV. At that time instant coffee came along so that people did not have to go out anymore.
1980s cafés / chain cafés
In the late 1980s cafés were getting fashionable again in the UK and in America, then New Zealand soon followed on. Cafés started opening up and they didn't have that instant coffee but with real beans. (NZhistory , 2016)