How can so many coffee shops stay in business? One reason is that customers do so much of their own business there.

Source: Twin City Business

By Colleen Sauber

Java Jack’s coffee shop in south Minneapolis doubles as an office for SGF Consulting, a Twin Cities software-development firm. There is nothing official about the arrangement. It’s just that Joe Throndson, who handles business development, and Greg Dougherty, David Hussman, and Ryan Danielson, SGF’s principals, meet at Java Jack’s regularly, spending hours at a time in a nook of the L-shaped shop, laptop computers open and cell phones on.

Other than this, SGF has no office to call its own. The partners work mostly at client locations and “we all have an office at home,” Dougherty explains, “but a lot of the time, we go to a coffee shop to break up the day.”
To work at home takes a lot of discipline, Hussman adds: “We come here to get something done.”
“Our meetings are usually in a restaurant or coffee shop,” Throndson says. That includes monthly and quarterly business planning meetings among the partners, as well as meetings with subcontractors and sometimes clients.

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