Currently eating in an extremely hipster local café (like, stereotypically so) - not by choice, but family…
It’s run by women, I suspect for women. It’s… I fucking hate it. It’s the kind of place that refused to serve “unwashed” like me, for two years…
But even now, everything has a little sign on it. “Do not touch” this. “Do not walk here”. “Do x, y and z before entering”, “Warning”, and most egregiously of all “You cannot use this table for more than x minutes, depending the value of what you order”…
Woke shit everywhere. Mostly black American woke shit, which is extra annoying, in Australia…
Eugh…
I can tolerate the rest, but all the micromanaging fucking signs, all over this junk-filled shithole, it’s very… In your face.
They just love their petty little rules, don’t they?
If you don’t want douchebags as your main clientele, don’t make your entire “aesthete” targeting cashed-up douchebags… 🤷🏻♂️
It’s actually not “a hipster area”. Or at least, it wasn’t. This was a service hub, that the wankers bought, gutted and turned into their “dream space”…
I presume it was cheap.
If you don’t want people to touch shit, don’t fill your entire space with ugly, used “arty” second-hand junk.
I assure you, this kind of shit, to this extent, is not necessary. But I suppose it makes a certain type of clientele feel “safe”…
I’d rather a fucking corner store that doesn’t condescend any day, to this sort of needless bullshit…
It’s funny you say these things like they’re busy, or they have high turnover.
Neither of those things could be further from the truth, in this instance, lol…
Treat people like “adult children”, as you say, and that’s how they are going to behave…