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title: "Idea: a club café for business people, geeks, startuppers and other tech maniacs"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/idea-a-club-cafe-for-geeks-and-startuppers
published: 2010-07-17
summary: "Tablets on every table instead of waiters, free space for tweetups and barcamps, a franchise network. My 2010 notes for a café built for geeks."
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# 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")