it sounds like you are talking more about higher-end places. Those types of places I would feel awkward sitting and doing my work the whole day.
I’ve been doing it for years and it’s fine. Not for the whole day, but if you come for lunch, you can usually stay until a bit before dinner and they’re fine.
Think of it from their perspective. They just don’t want you to be taking up valuable real estate that could be filled with paying customers. Between lunch and dinner most restaurants are pretty empty, so you don’t have any counterfactual costs for the retaurant.
Before lunch you can either get breakfast and do the same thing, or come between breakfast and lunch and order a coffee or two, and the same logic applies.
If you want to stay all day, you’d definitely want to order three meals, which could be a lot, depending on your budget and the country.
For the bike, since it’s folding, I just take it into whichever place I’m working from. ~99% of the time, it’s fine. ~1% of the time they ask you to keep it near the front desk, where somebody’s watching over it.
And since they’re so small, you can put them in your luggage, so you can travel with them just fine!
I’ve been doing it for years and it’s fine. Not for the whole day, but if you come for lunch, you can usually stay until a bit before dinner and they’re fine.
Gotcha, that makes sense. I think you’re right about the socially acceptable period being something like the timespan of a breakfast/lunch/dinner service rather than the whole day.
For the bike, since it’s folding, I just take it into whichever place I’m working from. ~99% of the time, it’s fine. ~1% of the time they ask you to keep it near the front desk, where somebody’s watching over it.
Makes sense.
And since they’re so small, you can put them in your luggage, so you can travel with them just fine!
Oh wow that’s really cool! Thanks for pointing this out, I’m considering a folding bike now. Something about traveling with a bike, even a folding one, just didn’t click in my head before, sorta like a round peg in a square hole. It makes sense now though.
I’ve been doing it for years and it’s fine. Not for the whole day, but if you come for lunch, you can usually stay until a bit before dinner and they’re fine.
Think of it from their perspective. They just don’t want you to be taking up valuable real estate that could be filled with paying customers. Between lunch and dinner most restaurants are pretty empty, so you don’t have any counterfactual costs for the retaurant.
Before lunch you can either get breakfast and do the same thing, or come between breakfast and lunch and order a coffee or two, and the same logic applies.
If you want to stay all day, you’d definitely want to order three meals, which could be a lot, depending on your budget and the country.
For the bike, since it’s folding, I just take it into whichever place I’m working from. ~99% of the time, it’s fine. ~1% of the time they ask you to keep it near the front desk, where somebody’s watching over it.
And since they’re so small, you can put them in your luggage, so you can travel with them just fine!
Gotcha, that makes sense. I think you’re right about the socially acceptable period being something like the timespan of a breakfast/lunch/dinner service rather than the whole day.
Makes sense.
Oh wow that’s really cool! Thanks for pointing this out, I’m considering a folding bike now. Something about traveling with a bike, even a folding one, just didn’t click in my head before, sorta like a round peg in a square hole. It makes sense now though.