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Re:How Restaurants Got So Loud by keithpeter on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:40AM (#18552965)
Strikes me as a sensible business model if you can actually cover the recurring costs by getting enough people in. UK version...

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/08/pay-per-minut...

London: https://london.ziferblat.net/

Manchester: https://www.ziferblat.co.uk/

8p/min = £4.80 per hour. Bearing in mind I'd pay £5 for coffee and a cake in many places that seems reasonable.

UK: many public access spaces have places to sit and public wifi (e.g. central reference library, University buildings, some City Council buildings &c)

Re:How Restaurants Got So Loud by amluto on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:50PM (#18555545)
In Taiwan, there are some excellent tea houses that have an unusual billing model. You can drink their tea for the list price, or you can bring your own tea leaves but use their water, etc by paying for time.

These are not generally the kind of places where you would bring a laptop.