This is the edict at Tazza on Henry Street. Considering hipsters with laptops and playas hitting each otherup on their cellys is really no environment to enjoy a latte, this move is kinda brilliant.
BHB Photo by Homer Fink
This is the edict at Tazza on Henry Street. Considering hipsters with laptops and playas hitting each otherup on their cellys is really no environment to enjoy a latte, this move is kinda brilliant.
BHB Photo by Homer Fink
Yay!
The part you don’t see from this sign is when the owner (manager?) herself is sitting at the bar on her Apple laptop during those no internet hours … I guess she’s working on her computer instead of web surfing, huh??
Has anyone ever noticed how the waitresses there just disappear? Randomly.
The owner/manager is not taking up seating for hours while nursing one coffee, it doesnt matter what she’s doing on her computer. its a business that needs to turn the table over, not the neighborhoods livingroom.
I passed Tazza once and noticed a good looking woman (that’s why I noticed) sitting at a table outside using her notebook PC. When I passed again almost two hours later, she was still there talking on her cell phone. Like anon said, this is a business, not the neighborhood’s living room. Many of us want a relaxing lunch without listening to someone’s irritating phone conversation.
BHBABE:
Did you ever think perhaps she is doing the store’s book-keeping or ordering???
I’m with Teddy — the intimate details of life that are shared in a loud voice over traffic into a cell phone, or at a restaurant or in the grocery store, are grating as hell. I love it that cell phones are banned at Overtures. I can understand needing to turn tables over, but for the peace of mind of other diners, ban cell phones as well!
Aren’t you excited for when we can use cell phones on planes?
or the subway?
“Don’t tazza ma bro!” It’s about time that some restauranteurs have decided to stand their ground against people who either can’t figure out how to make a good cup of coffee at home, or are tired of looking at their Ikea furniture. I witnessed a couple sitting opposite each other in the window of Henry St Ale House for 5 hours (!), each with a laptop propped on the table in front of them, which left no room for either a drink or food. Yoo-hoo people, it’s a bar, not a library.
the idea is a good one. I used to see Gabriel Byrne at Tazza. Conversing with a lunch mate or reading. He is clearly the model Tazza client. Haven’t seen him of late though maybe he couldn’t get a table.
I would love to be able to afford to actually buy a cup of coffee.
But with mortgage payments on the coop, two children at St. Ann’s, maxing 401k and 503bs, dealing with the ATM, and a dog, this Upper-Lower class Brooklyn Heights resident will just have to make do by smelling the aroma.
Obviously the people who can buy a cup of coffee are members of the Upper Class.
Bart
Seems to me that they actually want an environment that is a pleasant, European one, and it works for me. I go to Tazza to get AWAY from the damn computer and phone. I give them my money, they give me a nice experience, I go back. Good business!
Okay, so what the neighborhood really could use is an internet/phone-booth/sofa-lounge/cafe/bar. It’d probably make a fortune. Any investors out there?
Kind of sounds like my home, nabeguy. Show me the money.
Show me your home and I probably won’t need money. How soon can you open?