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"might as well rent an office for that price". Exactly. The coffee shop owners are not there to provide a free(or cheap) office space to you. They are there to
by boundlessdreamz 17y ago
"might as well rent an office for that price". Exactly. The coffee shop owners are not there to provide a free(or cheap) office space to you. They are there to run a business and people like you will drive a coffee shop out of business.
I can see a "sense of entitlement" in you comment. Why do you disagree that if you are sitting in a coffee shop and occupying one of their seats and using up electricity for your laptop, you should buy something regularly
- neilc 17y agopeople like you will drive a coffee shop out of business. That is more likely to be true if the shop is full to capacity (e.g. during the lunch rush, etc.). When there is free space, your marginal cost to the coffee shop is just electricity, which isn't that much. That said, I agree it's only decent to purchase something regularly -- a coffee every 2 hours or some food seems reasonable to me.