I don’t get this.
Just specify a minimum charge/hour. Send a staff person around once an hour, to ask for the surfer to order something to keep connected. Put a sign up, indicating such.
The shop gets steady revenue from surfers, and everyone’s happy.
It’s not rocket science. Sheesh.
Totally agree. Logical solution, and everyone is happy. I used to be a hostess/waitress in college at a restaurant that had 24 hour service, and a smoking section. We had the people who bought one cup of coffee (free refills) and sat at a table smoking for 5 hours a night. If you were lucky, they tipped 25 cents for the whole table. UGH. Yes, minimum order for an hour of free wifi seems fair to me!