No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users

As idle workers fill coffee-shop tables -- nursing a single cup, if that, and surfing the Web for hours -- and as shop owners struggle to stay in business, a decade-old love affair between coffee shops and laptop-wielding customers is fading. In some places, customers just get cold looks, but in a growing number of small coffee shops, firm restrictions on laptop use have been imposed and electric outlets have been locked.

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Aug 05, 2009
smays.com said...
Is there an official Coffee Zone position on this frightening trend?

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