Thanks for your replies. Good point for the time constraint, I was kinda weak on that for 1st dates, usually doing it end of afternoon at a coffee shop and wanting to transition to a bar to change place but it worked rarely.
However don't you find (for 2nd, 3rd dates etc) that it is easier/ more natural to transition from a bar to your place than from a coffee place? For afternoon dates it almost feels you then either commit to having dinner together or it is getting in the way of your logistics.
If sex is on your mind for the 2nd date you have to escalate anyway, wherever/whenever.
For me it usually didnt pay off to entertain a woman the whole(half) day. I went through the whole coffee-then-dinner-then-bar-thing a few times but in 90% of cases i either "had" them after the first location or they wouldnt go home with me (that day).
Going through 2 or 3 locations over a timeframe of 3-7 hours rather diminished the sexual tension in my experience. If she wants to **** you, she does so after the first location.
Dont forget you have to entertain/suffer her over that timeframe and we all know we would rather have fun with our friends then talk to a more or less unknown woman for 3-7 hours.
But thats me, if you really enjoy that thing, go for it.
What i would do for a 2nd date is meet for a certain thing with an again limited timeframe ..... coffee and a walk afterwards for example or some sports and a liquid refreshment afterwards at a quiet place, cinema and a (ONE) drink at the cinema, whatever gives you the oportunity to escalate at the end of the date. My timeframe for 2nd dates was about 2-3 hours max.
Of course i didnt invite them to my bed after the 2nd date, but i invited them to my place for a perfectly innocent reason.
If you can cook thats great for getting her to your place, i was very successfull with that. "Hey, i am hungry now and i got that couple of tuna steaks(whatever) in my fridge, wanna join me for dinner?"
If she agrees, fine, take her home. If not, wish her a good evening and with that show her again you have plans, options and that you are not a needy orbiter trying to get lucky.