Mr. Crepe Returns!

[enochs_fable]

Mr. Crepe is returning! The bad news is, it's taking the place of Someday Cafe, which will not be renewing its lease next to the Somerville Theatre

Comments

Nice

[kickindancer]

Mr. Crepe is better than the crepe place on Boston Ave, though they aren't bad.

Re: Nice

[enochs_fable]

We're fond of the Boston Ave place, but yes, Mr. Crepe is just better. I can't wait.

[enochs_fable]

Crepe-holic. That's good.

[grapefruiteater]

I've always felt like Someday is the kind of place I should like and support, but I just can't bring myself to. There are too many creepy customers, the furniture looks like it's disease-infested, the staff is unfriendly--I just have no desire to frequent the place. At the same time, it's sad to see a Davis Square mainstay go the way of the dodo, especially when Somerville is changing so much and so rapidly. Oh well.

I love crepes, so I look forward to trying Mr. Crepe! When does it open?

[enochs_fable]

I've always felt like Someday is the kind of place I should like and support, but I just can't bring myself to.

So true!

I don't know, but I'll let you know!

[echoweaver]

You also had many people who would just sit and read and just have a single drink

Um, this is the whole marketing strategy of coffeshops. "Buying a chair with chai." You create an atmosphere where people feel comfortable staying for hours, and hopefully they'll want to buy more and come back to buy more. I do this all the time when I write. And I'd happily buy more, but, well, diet.

I'm excited about Mr. Crepe though! That place was wonderful.

[enochs_fable]

I think there's a fuzzy border of drink to butt-space - how much? I don't know, but my impression from what I've read is that the place had sufficiently slow turnover that it was really hurting sales. People just weren't buying enough. Certainly, nobody wants a coffeeshop where you get harassed if you don't have a drink in your hand.

[echoweaver]

Well, I think it would be bad if the place were FULL, i.e. you can't buy a drink and get a seat if you want it. I think the goal for coffeeshop space is that it's large enough to accomodate all the long-timers with a few seats left over for the drink-and-run crowd.

[enochs_fable]

Right. I think some of it was also a price-point issue, that they should have charged a bit more than they did for specialty drinks and such. It's hard to balance out the economics of wanting to be a hang-out place with the bottom-line that you need to sell coffee and food to stay afloat. But that was really a minor point in my commentary - the larger ones being the atmosphere and service, which I'm glad to see I wasn't imagining the faults therein.