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Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« on: April 24, 2019, 09:14:06 pm »
A vegan feminist cafe in Australia that imposed an 18 per cent “gender surcharge” on men and gave women priority seating has closed down.

The Handsome Her cafe, which only opened a few years ago and was located in inner city Melbourne, described itself as “by women, for women”.

The venue attracted headlines in 2017 for challenging the “gender pay gap” (which doesn’t exist) by charging men extra.

At the time, the cafe’s management claimed the attention left them “jam-packed with customers showing their support”.

https://summit.news/2019/04/23/vegan-feminist-cafe-that-imposed-18-gender-surcharge-on-men-closes-down/
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2019, 09:27:25 pm »
I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard a statistic, and admittedly this is over a decade old at this point, that 9 out of 10 restaurants fail within their first couple of years.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2019, 10:41:26 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on April 24, 2019, 09:27:25 pm
I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard a statistic, and admittedly this is over a decade old at this point, that 9 out of 10 restaurants fail within their first couple of years.
True. I remember reading that many years ago. But that might have meant all businesses.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2019, 11:22:05 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on April 24, 2019, 09:27:25 pm
I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard a statistic, and admittedly this is over a decade old at this point, that 9 out of 10 restaurants fail within their first couple of years.
True. A normal business model to get around this is to remodel and reopen every few years. That is, an owner will ride the 'newness' wave until it wears off and business slumps. Then the owner will "go out of business" and open a 'new' restaurant to start all over again.

Simply rotate from Vegan to French to Italian to whatever. Keep it fresh. Keep it 'new'. Even though it is the same location, staff, and owner with each iteration.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2019, 11:27:21 pm »
It wasn't going to work as a business model, because they had to close for one week each month.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2019, 11:59:04 pm »
Guess they ran out of vegetables to serve. Literally.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2019, 03:10:01 am »
Quite a few commenters on TripAdvisor ripped the place.  Most of the the negative reviewers were men although there were a few women who thought the business model was stupid.
Apparently, the servers there went out of their way to be nasty to any men who ate there.
I can't believe the men who got treated shabbily by the awful personnel didn't know that beforehand. All the pictures of radical feminists and ugly stares should have  given them a clue.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2019, 07:13:22 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on April 24, 2019, 09:27:25 pm
I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard a statistic, and admittedly this is over a decade old at this point, that 9 out of 10 restaurants fail within their first couple of years.
That's true, and purposefully excluding (or mistreating) half of your potential customers doesn't help much.
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2019, 07:15:31 pm »
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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2019, 07:34:45 pm »
I would gladly pay the surcharge if it meant I could get them to make me a water-cress sandwich.   I'd have tipped them my usual 20% which makes the 18% surcharge a bargain.

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Re: Vegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2019, 08:32:42 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 25, 2019, 07:34:45 pm
I would gladly pay the surcharge if it meant I could get them to make me a water-cress sandwich.   I'd have tipped them my usual 20% which makes the 18% surcharge a bargain.

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