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.

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