Cybercafes - A Dying Trend?

A not-so-anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "I've been considering opening up a CyberCafe for a while now, and I've been searching the web for cyber cafe websites. I've found several cybercafe databases, but was disappointed to find that a majority of the sites I found were either taken over by register-this-domain pages or hadn't been updated for a couple of years. Another Cyber/Gaming Cafe I found online announced today that they were closing. So are Cyber/Internet/Gaming cafes just another bubble the net will burst, or are they actually worth investing in? Any cafe owners with experience to point one way or the other? Where are the success stories?"

Comments

Re:Just like restaurants...

[Thu Anon Coward]

correction: It's not hard to open an Ethiopian restaurant in the bar-b-que belt where I live (Austin, TX).

The problem is actually getting people to go there time after time so that the restaurant will make money and stay open. Austin is extremely liberal but we have a lot of "funky" and "off-the-wall" local restaurants already. Personally, I love Ethiopian food. When I was visiting Chicago 4 years ago, I made it a point to get to Mama Desta's Red Sea restaurant. Growing up overseas in a military family exposes you to a lot.

Most of the slobs in America that never want to try anything are people that have never travelled anywhere. And, NO, crossing the state line to visit Oklahoma City or Nuevo Laredo does NOT count as travelling-to-expand-your-horizons.