Setting up shop at coffee spots

At my "day job" we sometimes go to a local Starbucks for team meetings and the like. It's quite a development to see coffee shops turning into offices, business meeting places, and places where workers feel they have more privacy to make calls than they do from their cubes. Personally I think I would find it too distracting to be able to work out of a coffee shop unlike the guy in this article who says the ambient noise helps him work better. If I had the choice, I'd prefer to work at home where it's quieter, and the coffee is better!