Idea: a club café for business people, geeks, startuppers and other tech maniacs

A menu on a tablet

1. a tablet on the table for every guest,
2. with a menu app on it,
3. you order with “Add to tray”,
4. login, pur­chase his­tory, dis­count, rat­ings for what you’ve already tried,
5. book­ing a table and dishes in advance, by login,
6. the tablets are net­worked, each with its own iden­ti­fier: table, seat;
7. you can watch a video about a dish if you like,
8. google the ingredients,
9. read reviews of the dishes on a ded­i­cated net­work or on Twitter,
10. inte­grated with social net­works (Foursquare, Twitter: for exam­ple, tweet that you’ve dropped into the café),
11. free fast inter­net on the tablet,
12. you can send a doc­u­ment to print (the print­outs come on a tray :)
13. you can buy a tablet like it.

Pluses:

• frees up wait­ing staff;
• happy cus­tomers who don’t wait ages for some­one to come over, bring the menu, take the order or bring the bill;
• happy geek cus­tomers: they get to play with a tablet.

Free space and treats for internet-related events:

• tweetups
• seminars
• sctest
• hub
• train­ing for journalists
• gadget presentations
• get-togethers of PR people, mar­keters, pro­gram­mers, etc.
• barcamp

Plus: during these, anyone who wants to can drop in and join the con­ver­sa­tion (open­ness can be a con­di­tion for hosting).

Plus: the option to stream what’s hap­pen­ing online (with the right equip­ment: for exam­ple, the tablets have front cam­eras so a speaker can stream his face to a shared mega-screen, using a pro­jec­tor, and online, on the club’s website).

Quickly develop a fran­chise net­work of these cafés across Ukraine, since the idea is easy to copy.

Sales and earn­ings on the spot:

• busi­ness books
• gadgets
• pre­mium ser­vices (haven’t fig­ured out which yet)
• sub­scrip­tions to events held at the club
• pre­mium seat book­ing for events (pre­sen­ta­tions of new gad­gets, for example)
• free test­ing of new products

Name:

• Habl: sounds like Habr (Habrahabr, the Russian-language tech com­mu­nity), bad
• Hab (“Hub”): taken, but we could try to come to an agreement :)
• Kub (“Cube”): there may be shops with the same name (Podarki v kube, “Gifts in a cube”, for example)
• Kubl: klub with the l in the wrong place, but unique (though it does echo kublo, “a nest of vipers”)