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Anarchist Cafe in Toronto closes its doors

by sejtnjir on 5/17/23, 8:34 AM with 3 comments

• by sejtnjir on 5/17/23, 8:42 AM

  From secondary sources I understand that customers could pay what they want for specialty coffee. Other articles were priced at a premium to subsidise this money losing endeavour. Turns out, people don't pay enough voluntarily to run a business.

• by aww_dang on 5/17/23, 9:12 AM

  After reviewing the homepage, I can easily imagine why customers might not want that brand of angry political messaging with their coffee purchase.

  Maybe the pay-what-you want model wasn't the only problem?

  https://heavytable.com/5-cent-coffee-at-wall-drug/

  "5 CENT COFFEE AT WALL DRUG"

  >The 5 cent coffee is located in multiple places within Wall Drug. There is no cashier — the customer serves herself. Dropping a nickel into a wooden box is all that is needed to pick up a ceramic mug to fill up.

• by fithisux on 5/17/23, 11:10 AM

  We need on in Greece for sure