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Wouldn't this cafe eventually be filled with freeloaders who pay 9 pounds per day in order to get gourmet coffee and food all day long? That's a pretty good dea
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Wouldn't this cafe eventually be filled with freeloaders who pay 9 pounds per day in order to get gourmet coffee and food all day long? That's a pretty good deal if you're a cheapskate living in london. Sandwhiches can be 9 pounds by themselves.
- sreevishwa 13y agoThat's Quite possible. Or if someone is a real cheapskate, they could come here twice a day (£3.6) for two meals. They have coffee, fruits, veges and a kitchen - what else do you need?
- michaelt 13y agoThe impression I get from [1] is when a reporter visited the food was biscuits, peanut butter, toast and an onion (Apparently customers are invited to bring and cook their own food) £9 would get you four loaves of bread[2] and three jars of peanut butter[3]. You'd have to be pretty hungry to eat enough of that for them to make a loss. I assume the concept is fairly experimental at the moment, presumably they won't want people sprinting in, making an espresso for 3p and running out. Or I might have misunderstood what I read in [1]. In any case, it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out. [1] http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/01/08/pay-per-minute-cafe/ http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/01/08/pay-per-minute-c... [2] https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Wholemeal-Bread-Medium-Sliced-essential-Waitrose/15887011 https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Wholemeal-Bread-Medium... [3] https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Crunchy-Peanut-Butter-essential-Waitrose/10637011 https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Crunchy-Peanut-Butter-...
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoI used freeloader as a nicer word for "vagrant". You can't buy four loaves of bread if you don't own a fridge to store it in.
- patmcc 13y agoSmall tip: don't store bread in the fridge, it goes stale fast (and then it's cold, who wants that?).
- ams6110 13y agoHowever if there's a sale on bread you like, you can freeze it.
- elohesra 13y agoThis sounds ridiculously frugal, but if you're hard up for cash but have a freezer and a toaster, then freezing bread and toasting it up again can make some pretty awesome sandwiches. You can also stick really cheap bulk-buy cheese on it and make a mini cheese toastie. That said, if I were still poor, I wouldn't want to keep my stuff in the freezer at one of these pay-per-minute cafes, because it'd be gone by the next time you got to it. I also assume that they lock up at night, so I'm not really sure how this'd help vagrants all that much. However, if you happened to be lucky with the other people in the cafe (i.e. no-one being obnoxious or noisy), then it makes a ridiculously cheap coworking space.
- veemjeem 13y agoIf you were really poor, a bread machine is probably the easiest & cheapest way to make bread. It comes out to be around 25 cents a loaf, and you can control how much you want to make per batch. You only really need yeast and flour. However, the $25 bread machine is a small investment required.
- themodelplumber 13y agoA toaster oven with small bread pans also works great and is more versatile for about $10 more. Among other things I made sweetbread this way for several months when I was in college using instant pancake mix mixed with cracked wheat.
- dhughes 13y ago
- michaelt 13y agoNo, but if you have £9 a day you can buy a single loaf of bread and still have £8 left over. I guess if you were homeless it might be worth £9 a day to have somewhere warm and indoors to stay, but the free entry museums, art galleries and libraries don't seem to get full of homeless people. I have heard reports of 'pay what you like' restaurants getting filled up with homeless people, so I can see where you're coming from.
- yetanotherphd 13y ago>I have heard reports of 'pay what you like' restaurants getting filled up with homeless people, so I can see where you're coming from. That's really funny. Who would have thought there were more people who like eating for cheap than people who like paying for other people to eat for cheap?
- rmc 13y agobut the free entry museums, art galleries and libraries don't seem to get full of homeless people. Security Guards.
- jakobsen 13y agoSo in the UK you are not allowed to enter museums if you are homeless???
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoHomeless people don't always have the energy to walk around 24/7 in the museum, and they probably have "no loitering" laws. As in you can't just sleep on a bench in the basement all day and scare the children. Also, dress codes are most likely in effect.
- kokey 13y agoI think the fact that you can buy 4 liters of White Lightning for that money instead negates the necessity to find somewhere warm and indoors.
- TheSpiceIsLife 13y agoDid this comment thread actually happen? Where am I.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoFood hacker news.
- Crito 13y agoSounds like halfway to a decent ploughman's lunch.
- hk__2 13y agoI don’t think so. The Anticafé in Paris has the exact same concept with roughly the same pricing (€14/day), and has been open for more than 8 months now. AFAIK they don’t have such problem and the place is crowded by students and 20-something with MacBooks everywhere. They don’t offer sandwichs so it’s hard to have a "real" lunch here, you’d better go buy a €4 sandwich elsewhere and come back eat it there. As students, we don’t really come there for the free food, but because you can stay all the day working without being disturbed by a waiter asking you to leave.
- elohesra 13y agoIs the cafe very loud? Are people generally respectful of each other? These are the only real concerns I'd have with using such a cafe as a working space.
- hk__2 13y agoYes, it’s loud on the afternoon because everybody is talking, but apart from that, people are respectful of each other.
- nodata 13y ago> Sandwhiches can be 9 pounds by themselves. Where?
- Wintamute 13y agoYou can go and sit downstairs in the Google Campus cafe for free and get 70MB/s internet, which is just around the corner. That's where the freeloaders go :)