https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/coffee-shops-laptop-ban/
As both a barista and a blogger who works from cafes, Pat Mills of Making Nice Coffee is abundantly familiar with coffee shops that prohibit laptop use on weekends and urges owners to consider the

https://www.slashgear.com/more-cafes-ban-laptops-the-growing-push-against-tech-13333411/
Coffee shops had transformed themselves into a destination for laptop use, and that perception has stayed long after these same shops changed their mind and started cancelling their service plans.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/05/15/laptop-squatters-cafes-in-europe-are-fed-up-with-space-hogging-digital-nomads
Coffee shops and snack bars from Paris to Berlin have already established rules for so-called "laptop squatters". Cafes in Spain crack down on remote working

https://www.tryperdiem.com/post/laptop-free-zones-why-more-and-more-coffee-shops-are-banning-laptops
TLDR. With the increase of laptop-free zones in coffee shops, more and more people are debating the pros and cons of this new trend. On one hand, some people argue that banning laptops creates a more productive and intimate environment, while others claim that it's discrimination against freelancers and remote workers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/04/10/300518819/no-laptops-no-wi-fi-how-one-cafe-fired-up-sales
No Laptops, No Wi-Fi: How One Cafe Fired Up Sales. The August First Bakery in Burlington, Vt., bans laptops and tablets. Some customers were disappointed, but the owner says it has helped boost

https://www.cnet.com/culture/coffee-shop-bans-laptops-and-tablets-business-grows/
One small Vermont bakery and coffee shop, August First, wondered what would happen if it rendered them useless. So it decided to switch off its Wi-Fi, ban laptops and tablets, and prepare for the

https://www.cnet.com/culture/should-starbucks-ban-laptops/
Which leads one to wonder just how painful it would be if Starbucks took their lead and banned laptops throughout its vast network. There are a couple of coffee shops in San Francisco, for example

https://www.nationwidecoffee.co.uk/news/should-coffee-shops-ban-laptops
This has forced some coffee shops to implement a ban on laptops, to return them to their "original" purposes as gathering spots for friends and venues to enjoy a sack and a well-brewed cup of coffee. Smaller, independent coffee shops rely on frequent customers to survive the day and generate the revenue required to keep their doors open.

https://coffeebi.com/2018/06/13/coffee-shops-consumers-and-technology-reducing-the-sea-of-laptops/
Young consumers, or millennials, have increasingly turned to the coffee shop as an office space. According to Giesler, it is these two competing trends that can be understood to shape the landscape that coffee shop owners have to navigate. There has been a recent imperative to ban laptops, to try and shape consumer behaviour.

https://www.tvo.org/article/attention-freeloaders-that-coffee-shop-is-not-your-office
The "cafés vs. freelancers" debate gets recycled in the media about once a year, because there is always a coffee-shop owner trying to ban laptops. You get a half-dozen stories about why they're doing it (businesses require revenue) and how customers feel about it (they don't like it). Like the debates over tipping, strollers in

https://www.businessinsider.com/coffee-shops-are-banning-laptops-2013-7?op=1
Coffee shops across the country, including Starbucks, are limiting or banning laptop use. Crema Coffee House in Denver covered outlets to prevent laptop and cell phone users from camping out

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_coffee_shops_ban_laptops
Should coffee shops ban laptops? We academics love our coffee and our computers, but we are also supposed to think critically. With this is in mind, should coffee shops ban laptops?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/poll/2009/aug/11/coffee-shops-laptops-free-wi-fi
Coffee shops are trying to discourage customers from using laptops by turning off free Wi-Fi, blocking electrical outlets and banning computers altogether. Is this fair? Is this fair? theguardian

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/03/cafe-bans-laptops-wfh-customers-staff-quiet-zoom-calls/
A café has baned laptops after work from home customers asked staff to be quiet during Zoom calls. The owners of Fringe and Ginge in Canterbury, Kent, said people working on computers were

https://uptime.coffee/should-coffee-shops-ban-laptops/
Coffee shops are broadly thought of social hubs in lots of communities and neighbourhoods around the globe. They exist as locations for individuals to attach and work together over a cup of coffee, alongside the background hum of baristas working behind the bar. However as connection has turn into more and more digital lately, how […]

https://globalnews.ca/news/4090186/vancouver-coffee-shop-tells-customers-to-leave-their-laptops-at-home-on-weekends/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Brooklyn/comments/10xza7g/building_a_list_of_laptopfriendly_coffee_shops/
These days, a lot of coffee shops only allow people to use laptops at one small communal table, they have a time limit for laptop use (e.g., no more than 2 hours), they don't have outlets, or they ban laptops altogether. I'd love to crowdsource to come up with a list of coffee shops that have wifi/outlets and allow unrestricted laptop use.

https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/16yqci8/no_laptop_rule_in_coffee_shops_a_new_weird_norm/
If once laptops were allowed, and are now no longer allowed in most coffee shops, these coffee shops must have commontly experienced something with this very specific demographic (as opposed to other, seemingly simliar demographics, like eg. people who also drink their coffee alone, but without laptop) that made them choose to explude people

https://www.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/1ay89o5/coffeeshops_that_ban_laptops/
Yea, they also exist in New York. It's not uncommon. They exist in New York. I went to a coffee shop in east village that has a laptop ban. There were still people idling but they were reading books and there was definitely more people interacting with strangers. They take up tables for hours.

http://www.theemptycup.org/
Our Location. Adoption Resources. 9111 Executive Park DriveKnoxville, TN 37923USA. 8658019425. coby@theemptycup.org. The Empty Cup is a new kind of coffeehouse that will be a gathering space with excellent coffee, local food, a market place, and live music. But it goes beyond that.

https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Coffeeshop&find_loc=Harriman%2C+TN+37748
Get the breakfast sandwhich with their special house cheese. Just amazingly delicious." See more reviews for this business. Top 10 Best Coffeeshop in Harriman, TN 37748 - June 2024 - Yelp - Gather coffee lounge, Jolly Bowl, Coffee Whipped Cafe, T Cup Espresso, Starbucks, Sassy Sisters Cafe, Dunkin', McDonald's, Utopia Cafe.

http://www.tasteofknoxville.com/cozy-joes-cafe.html
2559 Willow Point Way • Knoxville TN 37931 • (865) 357-2699. Cozy Joe's is a new upscale cafe and coffee house serving up gourmet coffee from locally owned Vienna Coffeehouse Coffee. This is more than a coffee house — Cozy Joe's serves breakfast and lunch. On the breakfast menu is The Crusher — a Cozy Joe's original!

https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=coffeeroasteries&find_loc=Maryville%2C+TN
Laptop Friendly Cafe Free Wifi in Maryville, Tennessee. Quiet Coffee Shop in Maryville, Tennessee. Study Cafe Wifi in Maryville, Tennessee ... Tennessee. Top 10 Chai Latte in Maryville, TN. Top 10 Late Night Coffee Shops in Maryville, TN. Top 10 Lavender Latte in Maryville, TN. Top 10 Pastries in Maryville, TN. Top 10 Pastries and Coffee in

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-20/car-dealers-are-idle-across-the-us-after-second-cyberattack
Auto retailers are likely to be without software services used to run dealerships for several more days following a second major cyberattack at CDK Global, whose systems first went down on June 19.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-pennsylvania-suburban-women-voters-9d1e7276ddc0121a35b768c3b1486510
Lynn Natale, 62, right, of Newtown in Bucks County, Pa., talks to her friend Terry Sykes at a Newtown, Pa., coffee shop on June 14, 2024. Natale says she thinks Donald Trump struggles to communicate with women, but "the alternative is unacceptable," referring to Democratic President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)