Saturday 11 January 2014

London's First Pay-Per-Minute Cafe

image credit: Kai Chan Vong

Ziferblat is London's first pay-per-minute cafe, based on a Russian chain where 'everything is free, except the time you spend there.' Ziferblat means clock face in Russian and German (Zifferblatt). The idea is guests take an alarm clock from the cupboard on arrival and note the time, then keep it with them, before, quite literally, clocking out at the end.

There's no minimum time. Guests can also get stuck into the complimentary snacks, or prepare their own food in the kitchen; they can help themselves to coffee from the professional machine, or have it made for them. You can stay as long as you want and in the end you pay 3p per minute (that's about 5 cents).

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