Preference Reasons of Gaziantep Historical Tahmis Coffee House by Customers

Abstract

Because of the coffee’s potential of drawing attention of political, religious authorities and
literary figures; being prohibited and delighting, coffee has been the focus of Ottoman
intellectuals. Coffee places and coffee itself has been an integral part of the daily life in
course of time. By this way, a culture which the other beverage phenomenon in the world
cannot reach was born. In this study, a research that investigates the perception of coffee
according to the customers of Historical Tahmis Coffee being served for 376 years is
conducted. At the end of the study, it is concluded that the customers of Historical Tahmis
Coffee have positive attitudes toward it. Moreover, the customers also mentioned that they
visit the coffee on the proposals and the recommendation of their friends' about that place
is more important for them to promotions in social and written-visual media.