Family Cafe: corner Cafe

Trainee journalist Wang Peishi

Recently, a family-style coffee shop has opened in the urban Hengbei residential area, which is named "nook and cranny" because it is located in a quiet corner. Every detail of the decoration here reveals the thoughts of the shopkeeper when decorating his cabin: the business cards and menus in the store are drawn and copied by the shopkeeper himself, and the CD and magazines on the shelves are taken with the guests, and the corners decorated by colored single sofas and floor lamps are quite warm.

The shopkeeper, Xiao Zheng, a post-90s student who is still studying in Nanjing, likes to spend his spare time in family-style cafes such as book cafe. This kind of family-style coffee shop is very popular in Shanghai, Xiamen and other places, but it is rare in Wenzhou, so as early as a few years ago, she came up with the idea of opening a family-style coffee shop. When she returned from a trip to Dali last year, due to the infection of local culture and living conditions, she decided to start planning her own family-style cafe.

"nowadays, many people begin to pursue a slow life, hoping to find a friendly small coffee shop to read books and drink coffee to pass the time." Xiao Zheng, who likes baking and coffee, currently takes care of it in the store during the summer vacation. When he returns to school, he will be taken care of by his family and friends.

Xiao Zheng said that because the storefront is small, it is more necessary to pay more attention to the details and highlight the characteristics. Large open green wooden doors and windows, floral cloth curtains, Japanese wind chimes swaying in the wind, all kinds of dolls, dolls can be seen everywhere, walls, doors and windows cartoon stickers jump into the line of sight from time to time. Xiao Zheng also brought his favorite CD from home, and books were placed in the store for guests to read. From the store style design, decoration and then to the set, it seems simple and lovely, but it took nearly half a year.

The warm and lovely family-style decoration style of the nook cafe soon attracted the attention of students in nearby schools. Although Xiao Zheng is not sure whether his family-style cafe, which incorporates many personal styles, will be accepted by most people, he is confident that "there are many schools nearby and there are many students." during the trial period, a large number of students came to take a nap or pass the time. "

Xiao Zheng said that in the future, new products will be launched one after another and inspected by customers. "in the future, activities such as coffee interest exchange and dessert coffee making teaching will be held to gather popularity for this corner cafe and to make it a veritable family cafe." She said with a smile.

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