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Is that a bad thing?
by ykonstant 1y ago
Is that a bad thing?
- silvestrov 1y agoit is if you want the place to be financially viable.
- bombcar 1y agoI’m going to build a cafe inside a faraday cage someday. Just to see what happens. Maybe I’ll not serve alcohol and call it Zero Bars.
- dpb001 1y agoBetter yet, serve alcohol and call it Bar/No Bars.
- mananaysiempre 1y agoThe common non-tourist behaviour in a café in Vienna is to sit there talking for hours, buying a few cups of coffee total. It has been like that since before laptops were a thing. Yet the cafés remain viable.
- ykonstant 1y agoSame here in Greece.
- lupusreal 1y agoFor the case of > Some people open cafes specifically because they dream of creating a place for the community to hang out Having people sitting alone looking at a laptop for hours while buying the minimum amount of coffee needed to not be just flat out loitering, I think it would be a problem both from a cold business perspective, and even more so from the human perspective.
- ghaff 1y agoI think it's pretty common today though. There are a number of cafes with a lot of seating where I see a whole lot of tables with someone seated working on their laptop.
- cess11 1y agoCafés as a place to be for cheap where the weather can't reach you while you read the newspaper you can't afford or a book or plan a revolution is quite old. Like centuries old, perhaps millenia if you count gossip and include inns.
- ghaff 1y agoI suspect the economics have changed in a lot of cities though.