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Originally posted by shakran
No one's mentioned atmosphere. The successful cyber cafes in my town have always had a well thought out atmosphere. The ones that opened up in an old laundromat, still using the 40watt fluorescent troffers for lighting and the white-speckled commercial vinyl tile for flooring went under fast. No one wants to go to a cyber cafe and feel like they're in an institution.
Make it high-tech looking. This is surprisingly easy to do. Lighting is the key. Use a lot of recessed and track lighting. Have interesting things on the wall, and highlight them with a spot-halogen tracklight. Get some colored lighting to shine upwards in various places on the wall. Blue lighting would lend it a high tech look. Basically, visitors to your cafe should feel like they're in a high-tech computer center. Above all, stay away from fluorescents. The lighting is harsh, can cause monitors to waver, and causes eye strain.
I would throw a coffee shop in there as well, although maybe not at first. Gamers love caffeine and some of them don't like those sports drinks that don't really work anyway 
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thanks for all of this, no one has mentioned anything like this yet, and i hadn't even thought of it yet.
