Have some ideas in mind of places to go near the coffee house. A sit down coffee on its own can easily turn into a kino-less interview. If you can pull it off, grab the coffee and be like, "oh hey there's a great farmers market / clothing shop / etc/ around here, let's check it out!" Being the spontaneous fun guy is always a plus, and walking around and doing something like that gives you far more opportunity to kino escalate than sitting across from each other at a table.
Also try and arrange things so that you end up near one of your two houses, so that if you do escalate successfully you have the opportunity of going back to "check out that album I was telling you about."
