New concept of shared Cafe | Cafe provides free food and drink, as long as "buy time"

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A coffee shop chain in France can eat and drink for free, as long as "buy time".

The coffee chain called Anticaf é is different from the usual coffee shop in that it feels more at home, and its rich and fresh colors make it comfortable to stay inside.

Customers clock in and record the time they enter the store, and then they can drink coffee, tea and various drinks for free, help themselves with all kinds of sweet and salty foods such as biscuits, cakes, fruits and cheese, and use the free Wi-Fi. It's like having a party or chatting with friends in your living room or working in a team, and then clocking in when you go out and paying for your stay. Coffee shops even prepare picture games and books for customers' entertainment.

So how much is the cost of time? 5 euros an hour, 24 euros a day (more than 5 hours), 240 euros a month. You can also register as a member free of charge, and then enjoy a discount of 15% for one hour and 10% for one day.

Kim Hamisultane, owner of the chain store in Louvre neighborhood, said: "the guests in the store often have tourists in groups, students doing homework together, friends chatting together, and firefighters coming here for breakfast."

Some self-employed people also choose to work here, and web developers Guillaume and Ludovic told Le Parisien: "We are more distracted when we work from home." So they pay a package fee of 240 euros a month and can work in any Anticaf é. Tommaso, a philosophy researcher, said: "I can choose to work from home, but I'd rather come here because time is paid for, so it motivates me to work quickly."

Anticaf é sometimes offers painting workshops, yoga classes, knitting classes, English or Spanish classes in the evening.

The founder of the chain, Leonid Goncharov, is a Ukrainian young man who went to school in France, first developed the coffee shop concept in his hometown and then developed it to France. "We want people to feel at home and there will be no pressure for waiters to drive you out after a period of stay," he said. "

Today, the concept of Anticaf é is very popular, so it has developed rapidly, with chain stores not only in the Louvre, Olympiades and R é publique neighborhoods of Paris, but also in provincial cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux and Provence Aix, and new stores will be opened in cities such as La D é fense and Strasbourg in the western suburbs of Paris at the end of the year.