Planning Your Internet Café

Process Overview

<p><span style="font-size:small;">what you will serve at your cafe, and the kind of experience you want your customers to come to expect are some of the questions you need to answer. The following are some examples of questions:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;">– Will this be a casual place, or is there going to be some requirements?</span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">– Will your patrons be able to sit in your cafe indefinitely, or will they be paying by the hour for internet access?</span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">– Do you plan to provide Wifi for those who bring their own devices, and if so, will there be a charge for this?</span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">– Will you serve food and beverages, and if so, what does your menu look like?</span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">– Will you limit it to just a few standard options, like coffee and muffins, or will you serve light fare, like sandwiches?</span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">– What kind of an experience do you want to provide to your cafe customers?</span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">– Do you plan to have live entertainment, like poetry readings or a string quartet?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span>Whether the idea of the internet Cafe appeals to you or not, it raises </span><span>natural questions</span><span> about how long you want people to be able to sit at your computers, what the hourly charges will be, will you have an open-access computer for quick use, of perhaps less than 10 minutes, and will you have laptops and tablets for patrons to use. Beyond this you want to ask if you are going to offer beverages and light fare, so as to manage expenses in the beginning, or what kind of a menu might you have.</span></span></p>