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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

The idea of the protagonists hanging out at a cafe goes allll the way back to Snack Amigo in the original series, which I believe got ditched pretty early on (when Rider 2 showed up?), but it was also there from the very beginning, so I guess it left an impression.

Cafes popped up periodically throughout the Showa era. There was usually some kind of base; it was a cafe and/or motorcycle club in the original series and Skyrider, a street shop in V3, a restaurant in X, and something in Super-1.