Ritual Coffee House Roasters/Canvas Cafe

[Brad Neuberg]

Just a little note: Ritual Coffee House Roasters has blocked all their
plugs along the walls, even during the weekday (they just use to do
this on the weekend). They just have two open in strange locations.
For folks that don't know, Ritual Coffee is one of the epicenters of
the SF "bedouin hacker" places that folks are setup with their laptops
all day long working. Lots of folks have been working from here
instead of coworking, and I think they are going to phase out all
their plugs soon. They started this 3 weeks ago. They _really_ don't
know who their clientèle is. Coworking folks should market to these
people, putting up signs near here.

Also, the other bedouin hacker place, The Canvas Cafe, is reportedly
being sold to be replaced by a fish market.... should be possible to
convert alot more folks to coworking in SF now that these two places
seem to be disappearing from the hacker-friendly map.

Best,
Brad

[Tara Hunt]

Yep. We had a meeting at Ritro this morning and have another one at 3 pm in the Lower Haight, so decided to spend the day working over here...but discovered the plug situation and are now at The H Cafe at 17th and Sanchez, which is still pretty friendly (they even supply big power strips)...they just ask for the 'workers' to buy something each hour. Fair enough.

So, yes, there are alot of potential coworkers watching their batteries die and wondering where they will be able to recharge. The only issue I see is the hours...cafes are open later on, with set hours and staff for people to just walk in.

Tara

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