What do you want from a cafe?

[SuperHans123]

Good quality tea and coffee, decent prices, no artisan crap that costs a grand for a sunflower seed, big cups/mugs (we're not in Italy) clean toilet/washroom, non-wonky tables genial host, consistent opening hours.

 

[YahudaMoon]

Drying room

 

[NorthernDave]

Baked beans in ramekins.

Nooooooooo! Beans must always be on the plate with the bacon, eggs, sausages, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, hash browns and the fried slice. Ramekins are wrong on every level when it comes to breakfast.

 

[Tin Pot]

1. Floor surfaces that cater to spdsl shoes
2. Outside awning to shelter on arrival
3. Place for bikes visible from all seating
4. Drier for gloves etc
5. Contactless payments
6. Espresso, bierra moretti and Chianti
7. Pasteis, bacon ciabatta and cheese platter
8. Flirtatious waitress that hates cycling

 

[ianrauk]

1. Floor surfaces that cater to spdsl shoes
2. Outside awning to shelter on arrival
3. Place for bikes visible from all seating
4. Drier for gloves etc
5. Contactless payments
6. Espresso, bierra moretti and Chianti
7. Pasteis, bacon ciabatta and cheese platter
8. Flirtatious waitress that hates cycling

I can't take your suggestions seriously. Where is TEA!

 

[Tin Pot]

I can't take your suggestions seriously. Where is TEA!

In the 'other' cafe that I'm not sitting in.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Drying room

Surely it would take a really long stop for your kit to dry?

Bike parking spaces where you can see them, clean warm toilets and a good espresso for me.

 

[summerdays]

Cake ... Most important, and it has to be homemade
Flapjacks
Coffee
Safe stands for locking your bike
Pump
A few basic tools
Outdoor seating

 

[si_c]

I think it's mostly been covered, pump and tools, spare inner tubes (but reasonably priced). Secure cycle parking, locks if he can provide them would be a bonus, people more likely to hang around if their bikes are secured with more than a cafe lock.

Then the obvious food stuff.

Only thing I might mention is that it may very well be worth his while speaking to local cycling clubs and seeing if he can persuade them to start/finish their rides at his cafe.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Haribo.

Decent coffee.

Freshly cooked Bacon/sausage for sandwiches.

 

[summerdays]

Only thing I might mention is that it may very well be worth his while speaking to local cycling clubs and seeing if he can persuade them to start/finish their rides at his cafe.

There is a village hall that has done something similar... And basically once a month does coffee and cake for very good prices, and also caters for cycling events going through the area. They are raising funds for the village.

 

[tyred]

A pretty waitress

 

[slowmotion]

Decent coffee.
Don't care about any of the bloody cakes that you lot seen to obsess about.
Ham and cheese rolls in decent bread if it's the middle of the night.
Bacon and eggs, and a few beans and fried potatoes, but shove the sausages in the bin.
Any chance of Yellow Beer at about 9 am?

 

[YahudaMoon]

Hairdresser/barber

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Nooooooooo! Beans must always be on the plate with the bacon, eggs, sausages, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, hash browns and the fried slice. Ramekins are wrong on every level when it comes to breakfast.

I'd prefer it if beans stayed in the tins where they belong.