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A coffee shop I use gives you an hour of internet access with any purchase. They have a router with an attached thermal printer. The clerk hits a button, and
by ben1040 16y ago
A coffee shop I use gives you an hour of internet access with any purchase. They have a router with an attached thermal printer. The clerk hits a button, and prints a receipt with a password that lets you on for exactly one hour from then.
I see no problem at all with this. At the very worst, you're paying a couple bucks for internet access and getting a free cup of coffee or muffin out of it. If you're going to spend four hours there, I don't think it's asking too much for you to make a purchase every hour or so.
- mikeyur 16y agoI feel guilty if I don't buy something at least once an hour. I've had lunch with the President of a fair-sized coffee franchise in Canada and his stores give you a 1hr code with your purchase, but after that you can just go up and ask for codes each time they expire. He said 80-90% of people feel guilty and fork up another $3-5 for a drink/snack when they ask for a new WiFi code. Other interesting tidbit: coffee sales are down a lot compared with tea (which also has higher margins). So if you run a coffee shop, a good way to distinguish yourself is to carry a wide variety of teas.
- hakl 16y agoI've noticed that you can get tea that's not horrible a lot of places now. I wonder if that's cause or effect (or both).
- c1sc0 16y agoTea is hot right now, no pun intended. A few months ago I did a bit of market research for doing a tea-based startup. If anyone wants to do it, there's money to be made by simply blogging about exotic niche tea products, especially because most people drink absolutely garbage tea: there's room for education here.