A Linux Cafe In Phoenix

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:57 -0700, shadow wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Another factor that would really help such a business, considering the
> > mostly male geek community,  would be to make sure to hire some cute
> > college girls as barristas.  You can call me a dirty old man, but there
> > are certain Starbucks that I like for that very reason.  :-)
> 
> OK - "You're a dirty old man".  But then again, I make a weekly lunch 
> visit to a specific Long Wongs for the very same reason.  <grin>
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duh - Hooters just officially embraced what most restaurant and bar
owners have known all along. And I didn't think I needed to pipe a
confirmation that he's a dirty old man since the self declaration pretty
much suffices.
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> 
> To take this idea to the extreme we could pattern the Linux Cafe after 
> the "Maid in Japan" cafes, where they treat geeks like lords.
> 
> http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=11125879&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews
> 
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This is awesome - gotta hand it to the Japanese...they understand male
psychology even if Geisha is all but dead...it just had to shift form
for newer, younger culture.

Craig