Free coffee pays off for ‘gift’ café
Customers are asked to pay what they think is fair.
Nestled between a hotel, and a Japanese restaurant in Auckland’s CBD is an ordinary café with a not-so-ordinary business model.
The Espresso Coffee School (which doubles as a café) is part of what is called the “gift economy” whereby a product – in this case food or beverages – is given away
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Jason Walls for NBR Food Industry Week
Fri, 27 Mar 2015
Fri, 27 Mar 2015
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Free coffee pays off for ‘gift’ café
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