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Cafe au Play – A Third Place with children
February 4th, 2009
Not all coffee houses that set out to become third places succeed. Here’s one, however, that I think has great potential.
The Café au Play plan excites me. Too often businesses attempt to achieve the features of third places, but exclude children. Not only does this defeat the “leveling” functions of third places, but it also deprives our children of an opportunity to learn how to act and interact with adults.
That doesn’t mean that Café au Play has a free ride to success. Lots of adults visit third places to avoid kids. I suspect the venture’s success will rest on its ability to create positive social interaction between adults and children – the opposite of a McDonald’s Playland where kids often run wild while parents relax and eat.
Tags: Cafe au Play, children, coffee shop, third places
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