Comment by gchamonlive
7 months ago
In my opinion it's already quite unfriendly to have an unpaying customer wasting limited time in your café.
This solution by itself would function like this, but you are leaving out a crucial point that it also doubles as a hub to advertise your café as a place that will welcome you as long as you pay.
The client can know beforehand which cafés are ok with you using it as a cowork space, and cafés make sure they don't have dead space, which in many parts of the world is very expensive.
Those who disagree with the system can always default to just paying for an actual coworking space.
I have the opposite experience.
I am friends with the Cafe owner on my street.
He has a ton of regulars that hang out there all the time, myself included. I spend a lot there, so do they. Often times they are having their real estate sales meetings there, startup discussions, etc (you know, doing business).
They all, including me, known the owner well, we are friends.
Something like this would completely ruin that dynamic. It would push away the customers like me and the others I described that regularly spend a lot there in favor of getting $5 from the "randos".