Magazine: An anti-café concept

It was back in 2011 that Anticafé Babochki in Moscow started the trend of opening cafés with the so-called time club or a pay-per-minute café concept. At these places guests don’t pay for the drinks and the food they consume, but they are charged for the time they spend there. Anti-cafés have board games, computers, X-box, wi-fi and the like to entertain guests who can read, play, relax or work in these cafés – and of course they eat and drink. Anti-cafés opened in London, Paris, Madrid, Vilnius, Bucharest, Rome, Montreal and in August in New York.