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Originally Posted by outlander78
I'm glad to read this. I don't go to coffee shops to read - if I want to sit down, it is usually to treat my kids to a donut or cookie. I hate seeing all the tables taken over by people to cheap to get an Internet connection at home.
Notebooks are definitely a problem, iPads are mixed use so probably an issue, but I don't see the harm in people having a dedicated ebook reader - how much work can you really do with a kindle?
Plan B, enforce the "thank you for visiting, please don't stay for more than 30 minutes" signs you see up in many places.
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Man. I guess this is the difference between the East and West Coast. On West Coast, the mom and pops coffee shops go out of their way to entice people to stay. When they redo the places, they make sure that each table has at least one power outlet. Well... except for the communist coffee shop. They block all the outlets. If they really want to get rid of the laptop people, just turn off the wifi. Here on the West Coast, you look weird if you don't have a laptop in a coffee shop. I guess people in New York just don't have a cafe culture. On the West Coast, as in Europe, we do. The same people hang out in a coffee shop every day. I go every day and see the same people there pretty much every day. It's like going to the local pub when I was in London.