Overview

• The policy, announced on August 20 via Instagram, restricts laptop use to a purpose-built upstairs bar and prohibits laptops on the ground floor.
• Staff will ask customers once to follow the laptop and no‑outside‑food rules, then request they leave if they refuse.
• Owners cited the venue’s small size and the need to keep tables available for groups rather than single laptop users occupying seats for hours.
• The upstairs laptop bar was designed for working customers, with a power socket and a bag hook at every seat.
• Local reporting highlighted largely supportive reactions, with commenters echoing the reminder that it is a coffee shop, not a library, and noting the family-sized tiramisu anecdote.