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Right, cause coffee is so hard to make yourself. I guess I'll never understand the point of hipster coffee shops. I'm all for cozy cafes, but all the hipster s
by njn 8y ago
Right, cause coffee is so hard to make yourself.
I guess I'll never understand the point of hipster coffee shops. I'm all for cozy cafes, but all the hipster style coffee places, like 9th st. espresso, are the opposite of that: more catering to the trendy, minimalist, i3-gaps ikea aesthetics of the mainstream of /r/unixporn.
- sergius 8y agoThey provide a place to sit and use free WiFi...
- addicted 8y agoThis was always the case. Coffee shops are more about hanging out and finding a casual environment to work than about the coffee. You could replace the coffee with an hourly charge and it would probably have the same effect, except people are not really used to paying for a place to sit, so coffee becomes the way to extract the money. At least that’s how I, as someone who doesn’t drink coffee but finds himself in coffee shops all the time, perceive it.
- ghaff 8y agoBack in the day before WiFi became ubiquitous Internet cafes were pretty common in a lot of cities. We still have them but we pretend they're coffee shops and subsidize seats with coffee purchases and assume the economics work out in the end.
- ardit33 8y agoYou are missing the point. If coffee places, cupcake stores, and bodegas (which are not luxury good sellers) can thrive and expand, then it is not necessary the story of: "rents pushing great businesses away", more of: Not so great Business that are not solving the right needs at the right price are dying. Creative destruction on steroids....
- dionidium 8y agoI don't usually carry an espresso machine with me as I walk around the city, so, actually, yes, if I want to drink an espresso while I'm out, then I'll probably need to buy it from a coffee shop.
- smileysteve 8y agoAs if half the customers aren't ordering iced coffee.