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Or maybe Starbucks should install a common printer with a fee? The large items policy still makes sense, though
Is that a business they even want, someone occupying a seat for 8 hours only to consume two coffees?
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For work oriented cafe, owners can partner with Teamviewer, license seats from it and then advertise this as a fast remote service. Iirc teamviewer requires payment only for host machine, clients can be free. Though I imagine the market for such setup would be extremely small and unprofitable.
Clearly StarBucks should rent out StarBucks branded developer machines in the cloud, which you can access from home or from StarBucks terminals.
In 2014, in a Starbucks in Los Gatos, CA, I saw someone bring in a (small) desktop PC and a monitor and set it up at a table.
There is a photo in the Korea Herald article linked in op's article. https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10550038
wonder if you can bring a tent inside and camp
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They'd have to charge people for using those, which people won't be eager to. The point of coffee shops in this regard is that the use as free coworking space is "parasitic" on the space being financed by the café business.
they could integrate it with their loyalty points system, whatever it was called, starbucks card or sth either pay with points, or get a cheaper rate for points, or even get points if you pay normal for the cowirking space the card could also double as a validator, either for the reserved space or as a key card to a closed one, saving on in-store admin work if i were starbucks, i would 100% try this clearly there is…
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Nice - I tried libraries and also used friends club memberships - but I needed to do a lot of video calls, so a place I could talk freely was needed. A friend of mine seemed to manage to join nice clubs early on good terms (and low costs), and ran a mobile advertising business for a good few years without ever having a proper office space - just working from home then the clubs as needed for meetings etc. But his lin…
Boozy?
Or maybe Starbucks should install a common printer with a fee? The large items policy still makes sense, though
Is that a business they even want, someone occupying a seat for 8 hours only to consume two coffees?
For a busy cafe that's always short on seating and struggles to keep up with fulfilling orders, they want nothing to do with laptop squatters.
Every other case I imagine it's desirable to have at least some regulars presumably employed enough to be working from a cafe using modern tech.
One common problem I've noticed is van lifers and other quasi homeless folks spending ~zero money stinking up the place just for the free power and internet.
Now that battery life and cell-tethered internet is so good, some of my favorite urban cafes have adopted a no-outlets no-wifi approach, while still having tons of seating and allowing folks to be present with their computers all day. They just have to provide their own internet and power, which serves to exclude the true parasites while selecting for folks with $$ to spend because they have state of the art gadgets with their own unlimited data plans.
Cafes provide two distinct products, usually bundled into one: seat rental and food/drink. How about charge separately for each? I get that it would be awkward to try, but why not.
Newer Coworking places generally seem to have some Starbucks-vibes, but AFAIK they are not doing to well. Maybe the price of a coffee is exactly what people are willing to pay for a seat, a small table, and wifi for some hours.