Cafe – No Internet Weekends

No Internet Weekends

I was at one of the nearby cafes last Friday where I noticed this sign. “Internet-Free Zone on Weekends.” I wonder if this is to encourage people to read or socialize on the weekends. Or maybe something more practical, such as not having students hog a table for the whole day. Either way I thought it was interesting and I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

  • Chris Blake

    Was this the Black Dog Cafe on Martha’s Vineyard, MA?

  • Alex Hanson

    There’s a cafe in Chicago (Lovely) where they’ve turned off the electrical outlets. You can use the internet any time, but unless you’ve got a lot of battery power, you can’t camp out there all day. It seems like a good idea to me.

  • http://coffeeandcelluloid.com Joey

    No, this is in Tallahassee.

    And that is an interesting solution in the Chicago cafe. But I feel like that hurts the people that adhere to the ‘purchase a drink every 1-2 hour’ rule. But I guess in a large city like Chicago, each cafe can afford to have an identity on what you can and can’t expect to do there. Way cool.

  • andrew

    hum… aha! Free internet is very different from internet free

  • http://slackerreform.com Carl Nelson

    I’ve seen this in a few cafés. One of my favorites in Seattle added this recently and I noticed while I’m here for two weeks. Victrola on 15th in Capital Hill.

    Also, my favorite café in NYC went entirely laptop free which is discouraging to me. I loved the atmosphere but now I’m much less likely to stick around and buy a couple drinks.

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