$300 isn't very much when you look at the loaded costs of setting up and running a coop. Offices are expensive.
And if not an office, I'm not sure how one would ever create a 24 hour coffee shop. A typical Starbucks lives off of customers who spend $100/mo and take up no room -- $5/latte by 20 working days and five minutes in and out. How would some coffee shop ever survive by charging three times as much for someone who takes up 100 times more time lounging around in chairs?
Someone occupying an otherwise empty chair has zero marginal cost. In fact to a restaurant, people at tables has a negative cost just before the busy period - would you pick an empty restaurant?
People in a starbucks at non-peak hours aren't a problem and may even attract other customers.
power from an outlet, higher electricity bills for cooling (more people, more heat) -- Hypothetically, this would be counteracted by people buying more drinks, but how much sugar can one consume, really?
Myself, I'd suggest some low calorie drinks people can drink to keep going.
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$300 isn't very much when you look at the loaded costs of setting up and running a coop. Offices are expensive.
And if not an office, I'm not sure how one would ever create a 24 hour coffee shop. A typical Starbucks lives off of customers who spend $100/mo and take up no room -- $5/latte by 20 working days and five minutes in and out. How would some coffee shop ever survive by charging three times as much for someone who takes up 100 times more time lounging around in chairs?
Someone occupying an otherwise empty chair has zero marginal cost. In fact to a restaurant, people at tables has a negative cost just before the busy period - would you pick an empty restaurant? People in a starbucks at non-peak hours aren't a problem and may even attract other customers.
power from an outlet, higher electricity bills for cooling (more people, more heat) -- Hypothetically, this would be counteracted by people buying more drinks, but how much sugar can one consume, really?
Myself, I'd suggest some low calorie drinks people can drink to keep going.