You might be in the firing line at one café-bar in Barcelona, which is taking aim at drinkers who take too long over their coffee — by charging them extra.
But if customers take more than half an hour to drink it, the price rises to €2.50 (£2.15). And if anyone takes more than an hour they will face a bill of €4 (£3.40) for their café con leche.
In an effort to make sure tourists or digital nomads do not occupy the tables for hours but only pay for one coffee, the bar has adopted this strategy.
A la Barceloneta si vols un cafè te l’has de prendre en menys de 30 minuts. pic.twitter.com/kJd0dsXjVv
— Maria (@maria_lostia) May 4, 2025“In Barceloneta, if you want a coffee, you have to have it in less than 30 minutes,” Maria Lostia posted on the social media platform X.
“All the bars are geared toward outsiders and the ones that have affordable prices end up charging us €4 for a coffee if we go over our limit. I feel like I have been kicked out of my own neighbourhood,” she told The i Paper.
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“We decided to do this because people were taking longer and longer at the tables and only buying one coffee,” a spokesman for Café Bar Perfetto said.
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