Café Lounging Or Wi-Fi Scrounging… Which Is It To Be?

Let’s face it, café’s are no longer places where you come to have a cup of coffee and leave. Instead, successful café’s are a kind of ‘third place’ somewhere in between work and home. They’re places where you can relax, read a paper, meet friends or business colleagues and of course use the free Wi-Fi facilities. The trouble is that the very success that establishments offering free Wi-Fi brings may also be their downfall. Why, because of so called Wi-Fi scroungers.

We’ve all seen them, and we might have also been one of them from time to time. You know, the person who buys the smallest and cheapest cup of coffee going, only to sit there for the next six hours or so chatting to friends on Facebook. However there comes a point when café lounging becomes Wi-Fi scrounging, but the question is at what point is this surpassed? When does it become okay for the owner to ask the person to leave?

The unwritten rule

There does seem to be an unwritten rule which every self respecting café goer using the wi-fi services of a busy café adheres to and that’s the ‘coffee an hour’ law. To put it basically, every hour you’re in a café using their electricity and their Wi-Fi, you really need to buy something. Whether it’s a coffee, a doughnut or a slice of scrumptious apple pie, it’s a fair trade off and most definitely good manners to boot.

The lure of a great café

There’s no getting away from the pull that a great café has on the public and if you put this into perspective, many libraries also offer free Wi-Fi, they also provide comfortable seating (in most cases anyway) and they’re probably a lot quieter than most café’s However they’re drastically under used. Why, because they don’t serve skinny latte’s and cappuccino’s. People just like going to café’s and to many it can become part of their life’s routine For this reason it’s important to get the décor and the setting absolutely right, so great looking and comfortable furniture is key.

Here at Cafe Furniture Melbourne we supply a wide variety of great looking, commercial café furniture in a wide range of styles, designs and composites. The result is that you’re bound to find something that suits. Give us a call on 03 9357 9688. Alternatively if you’re in the Preston area of Melbourne, then check out our showroom, or visit our website at www.cafefurnituremelbourne.com.au