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Or maybe Starbucks should install a common printer with a fee? The large items policy still makes sense, though
by jiehong 1y ago
Or maybe Starbucks should install a common printer with a fee?
The large items policy still makes sense, though
- sschueller 1y agoThat will ruin them at $1,500 to $2,000 per litre of ink...
- unglaublich 1y agoThey could provide Starbucks branded ink of which 95% of the cost is licensing fees which they pay out tax-free to themselves.
- krogenx 1y agoMaybe they could do some R&D to see if coffee could be used as ink.
- londons_explore 1y agoI just put coffee in my printer to see... It kinda works, but the printouts are very faint. I was expecting it to clog immediately (the jets are ~10um), but it didn't.
- ctxc 1y agoDamn. The kind of friends I need in my life.
- dvfjsdhgfv 1y agoSorry to bother you but I have so many questions! Like, did you actually do it or was it just a middle joke I didn't detect? If the former, wasn't you afraid the printer won't be usable after that experiment? Didn't that worry you? Do you often experiment in this way? (Just stopping there to give otherwise the list gets too long.)
- londons_explore 1y agoI have literally hundreds of HP print heads from a project, many partly blocked or burned out (they burn if you send them the wrong signals, and like 10% of the time I hit 'break' on my debugger it burns a few jets out if they're firing at the time), and had a coffee sitting right next to my desk so thought "why not".
- librasteve 1y agoyeah, but can you bubble jet maybe a photo onto a flat white?
- londons_explore 1y agoThat is a stretch goal of my project, but right now I wouldn't be confident I have a method to flush out the OEM and probably toxic ink.
- FredPret 1y agoThis is incredible - you should write a blog about it. I want to see what that printout looks like!
- londons_explore 1y ago
- cm2187 1y agoIs that a business they even want, someone occupying a seat for 8 hours only to consume two coffees?
- PaulRobinson 1y agoThey'd rather that than an empty seat, especially if that person is turning up 5-6 days/week. Most coffee shops where I live (London, UK, specifically out in West London) are at best 20% full through most of the day, that's a lot of dead real estate not paying for itself. When I tried working out of coffee shops a bit some years ago the "etiquette" seemed to be ~1 drink/hour to pay for your seat. I don't like coffee that much, so was consuming more like 0.66/hour (i.e. around 2 drinks every 3 hours), and people were fine with that, as it was effectively a rent payment of £20/day, or £100/week, which is a little under what a hotdesk would cost me in the same area but with a lot more flexibility (never pay for idle!), and of course its good margin sales for them. Of course, they could just say "no laptops". There's a pub chain in the UK that did that (Sam Smith's - no screens, no swearing), but the rule is not widely followed or enforced and where it is the pubs are empty far more than the ones that welcome customers.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoObviously some coffee shops are gonna want that but some coffee shops are making all their money by selling to customers during short periods in the morning, lunch and maybe in the afternoon and if this person is sitting there blocking the chair that could be used by many customers during the time the total of two cups of coffee will be less than what they are losing from not being able to serve those customers. Of course for some coffee shops they are never full and they probably benefit from this and they would love to have those type of customers.
- gambiting 1y ago>> but the rule is not widely followed or enforced and where it is the pubs are empty far more than the ones that welcome customers. I mean, I went to one in SOHO and it was packed and indeed, no one was on their phone and people were being actively told off if they used a phone. That was nice. The fact that I paid £9 for a pint was much less nice though.
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- barryrandall 1y agoThen they'd have two problems: people camping out in the stores and managing thousands of printers.