This Café Serves Free Coffee But Charges You By The Minute
If you're not brewing coffee in your car during your commute, then you likely make a pit-stop at your nearest coffee shop for a cup in the morning on your way to work. Or maybe you're the type that likes to work in the coffee shop. At one café, the coffee is completely free and you're only charged for the time you spend there. However, there is a catch.
At the Glass Hour in Brooklyn, customers can drink unlimited free coffee and tea-and even snack on endless granola bars and candy-during their stay. But they have to pay for their time. And before you think about grabbing a cup and dashing out the door for super cheap coffee, you'll need to cough up $6.
Business Insider reports the café has fixed its first-hour pricing with no pro-rating, so if it doesn't matter if you spend two minutes there or the full 60, you'll have to hand over six bucks. After your first hour, you'll be charged 10 cents per minute. And if you stay more than four hours (which would set you back $24), the rest of your time there is free.
This might be an attempt to ward off squatters who dominate comfy chairs and take over tables as their own novel-writing space for hours on end, a problem that plagues Starbucks locations across the country. At the very least it's an effort to benefit from the laptop-toting bunch and compensate for potentially lost revenue if fewer customers come in when the café is packed and there are no available seats.
If you're someone who likes to sit and stay for the better part of your day to get work done, then you'd be better suited to ordering one coffee elsewhere and hunkering down for a day's worth of work for about $3. But if you're someone who likes free coffee and cheap dates, this metered system might be ideal-just make sure you don't OD on caffeine.
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