🍺 PUB TEST: Should Laptops Be Banned In Cafes?

Does banning laptops in cafes pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Banning laptops and cafes. Does this pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
UK cafe chain has done this. It's banned laptops at
lunchtime on weekdays and all day on weekends. The clear
room for customers who are prepared to spend more money.
He will go to buy food who aren't sitting there working.
But actually, Jami Wright said earlier, what's the difference between
that and reading a book? But I don't think anyone
sits and reads it. Not many people would sit and

(00:28):
read a book all day in a cafe, sitting on
one cup of coffee. If you read a massive, big
book like War and Peace, everyone got g he's smart.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
But if you're in there reading big and bouncy.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
But often I think now that people are working from home,
this is a thing people are on the lookout for.
Are they going to sit and do all their work
in a cafe, plugging into the cafes using their WiFi,
using their WiFi and only ordering one cup of coffee?
So how do you feel banning laptops and cafes? Is
it fair? Does it pass the pub test? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes it does as the cafe has a business to run.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh I think it does. Yes, couples going out and
sitting there on their phones laptops and not talking to
each other, I might as well sit home.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
And Yeah, no, we have to let people do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Everyone's got a job.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I think those people and the mums that have to
work from home and need.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
A bit of a coffee, you should let them have
a coffee in a cafe while they work.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yes, it because if you're own a business and people
come in and they just sit there, why not go out,
sit in the park, shitt in your car, sit somewhere else.
I know that people need company, but do it somewhere else?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Very irritating, despite the fact that it adversely affects me.
I think it does. You see people that are there
that bring out their own snacks and their own coffee,
and that's just rude and it's not fair on the
people who own the cafes.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, it takes balls. Bring out your own coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Come on, come on,