Scottish Café

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Post by benbreen » Sat, May 29, 2021, 11:24 PM UTC

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by armSixtyFour » Sun, May 30, 2021, 1:25 AM UTC

It's unfortunate that it's so hard to find a pdf of the "The Scottish book", it looks as though any copy of it is over 150 USD.

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by the_local_host » Sun, May 30, 2021, 1:31 AM UTC

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile.

I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between.

Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by bombcar » Sun, May 30, 2021, 1:51 AM UTC

the_local_host wrote: post #3

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile. I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between. Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

Rural family restaurants can handle this - or any place where you get outside of “heavy traffic” - just ask! As long as the table would have been empty anyway it doesn’t cost them extra - or leave a generous tip.

One restaurant near me even has a plaque commemorating the group who has been eating lunch there for twenty years.

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by hellbannedguy » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:03 AM UTC

the_local_host wrote: post #3

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile. I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between. Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

Starbucks is pretty good. I have never seen them kick anyone out for not buying enough.

I miss the one that was near me.

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by miles » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:21 AM UTC

armSixtyFour wrote: post #2

It's unfortunate that it's so hard to find a pdf of the "The Scottish book", it looks as though any copy of it is over 150 USD.

There are a number of PDF versions (and much more) linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Book :

English version of Scottish book http://kielich.amu.edu.pl/Stefan_Banach/pdf/ks-szkocka/ks-sz...

Manuscript of Scottish book https://web.archive.org/web/20180428090844/http://kielich.am...

The New Scottish Book PDFs https://web.archive.org/web/20170703172619/http://www.wmi.un...

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by sho_hn » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:23 AM UTC

the_local_host wrote: post #3

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile. I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between. Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

I lived for close to four years in South Korea, working mostly from inside cafés and often spending an entire work day inside them. There were plenty that were set up for this - they often catered a student crowd that would hang out there for long durations studying (quite a few had open for 24 hours, too). It meant the drink prices were quite high since it was basically rent for a seat.

Alternatively some dedicated study cafes would require a flat fee for a time duration and make drinks cheap instead.

It was also fairly common to leave laptops plugged in and leave for half an hour to grab a meal elsewhere and come back.

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by y2bd » Sun, May 30, 2021, 2:57 AM UTC

hellbannedguy wrote: post #5

the_local_host wrote: post #3

People back then knew that "hanging out" in a public place was worthwhile. I wish there was a model of public place where you and your pals could buy breakfast+lunch, or lunch+dinner, and occupy the table for the whole time in-between. Bars let you stay for long periods, but after three or four hours everyone ends up hammered, which is a different thing.

Starbucks is pretty good. I have never seen them kick anyone out for not buying enough. I miss the one that was near me.

Folks can argue about the coffee quality as much as they want, but this why I love the Starbucks reserve roastery in Seattle. Decent chairs you can sit in for hours on end, and they blast AC in the summer. Noisy though.

Re: Scottish Café

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Post by KhoomeiK » Sun, May 30, 2021, 3:21 AM UTC

Great metaphor for how to create an innovative, collaborative culture.

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#10

Post by duxup » Sun, May 30, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

I followed Wikipedia to "Scottish Book" and checked the names of the people involved... only to find a lot of them executed in WWII :(