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Workspaces at restaurants and coffeeshops?

2 points by pavantalla ↗ HN
Does this idea make sense, pls share your thoughts.

digital nomads, freelancers, remote pros. are growing fast and they need more decent workspaces.

restaurants & coffeeshops are facing challenges due to more options and home delivery.

my idea of gigdesk.co is to provide workspaces pnhourly basis at popular restaurants and coffeeshops, without disrupting their current business. this helps restaurants to gain additional revenues, offer F&B at discount and enhance brand. For remote pros. they get lot more options to work on the go.

please share your thoughts as i am building the idea. the webpage is live, www.gigdesk.co and we are working on mobile app.

your inputs would help us to make it better and right!

2 comments

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ugochiowo
Assuming this is done during hours, the benefit of your service is increased foot traffic + additional revenue. If the location of the shops/restaurants are in prime real estate areas, the space will be limited + they wouldn't want to give up customer space for a non customer, especially at peak hours.

What if you could offer this before and after hours? You'd partner with these coffee shops and convert their space into co-working space. This way, there's a set window of time that activity would be going on, sans true disruption to their business. Probably Mom and Pop shops, easier to get a yes + foot traffic is more of a pain point for them vs larger scale franchise ;)

[dead] TokyoKid
Personally I’ve been using them as workplaces for a long time and it’s really been expensive to sit there for 3 hours and order a drink and some food throughout. Plus the tip, which I feel obliged to make pretty decent since I’ve been taking up the space.

Then there’s the odd distraction and the closing hours, etc.

If there was some monthly service that, say, reduced prices to all-day happy hour and set a max tip of 10%, that would be cool. You could issue like a member card that enabled this and pay out revenue that went partly to tips and stuff.

Hope I understand your idea right.