NY coffee shops restricting notebook use
The economic downturn caused a few cafes, including Naidre in Brooklyn, NY, to limit when users can surf the Internet on their laptops, says WSJ report Thursday. The local neighborhood shop offers free Wi-Fi, but a sign since the spring of 2008 warned that laptops are not allowed in certain mid-day, unless the customer is the food as well as surfing or elsewhere with their notebooks. Store owners say they find it difficult to get a client that uses the space and electricity for hours on end in order not to be nothing else.
Transactions which are not even plugged Naidre their markets to the surfer, and save electricity. In San Francisco, some stores are having a similar but less confrontational approach, with signs that ask laptop users to tables, where cafes are filled.
Others have different rules. Cocoa Bar outlets in Brooklyn and on Manhattan’s Lower East Side put up a rule for more than five months, it is not possible for notebook usage after 8PM on Friday and Saturday. Espresso 77 in Queens, has blocked three of the five outlets to the customer six months ago. Two of the three grumpy caf business in the city have also specifically banned laptops in general.
Larger coffee or bookstore chains such as Starbucks or Borders, often or always for Wi-Fi hotspot access, are not such restrictions. Another book chain Barnes & Noble, the free Wi-Fi, but no restrictions for notebook computers and their users.
A concerted effort to restrict or ban the notebook is probably an effect on Netbook and other small ultra-portable design their own they are used in cafes and other public areas.
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