for restaurants and cafes in 2025, community formation is more than just business its about survival and narrative-building too.

a city with thousands of mostly empty cafes is good for little when team members don't really understand social media or community building.

writer, explorer. wandering through life.

yes, this is what i've been told! wide open for a cafe-turned-learning/meetup space to build a world and legend of their own in cities like these to stand out

sounds a lot like in jakarta, and a lot over here are to launder money for their main businesses, usually online gambling

most of the coffee shops here sit empty (used for tax evasion, and money/land dumps) while others have overpriced coffee that doesn't taste amazing to pay for the nice views, tons of people go just to take photos for likes on facebook 🤦‍♀️  others people sit for hours or all day but don't spend much