The Diverse Pleasures of the All-Day Café

As comfortable as this sounds for a customer, I must wonder how the business plan pans out for the café itself. Table turnover is important for wait staff who want to maximize their tips, and food service already works on very thin margins as it is. Making food items expensive to compensate for people sitting there for hours seems like it's not going to foster the idea of sitting around ordering drinks and meals all day.

I do rather like this idea in theory, but I'm not sure how the reality of it works out.

Nice! Uh, how do you make that work with Manhattan rents of $10-$100 per square foot monthly?

American here: Do places like this exist en mass in European countries and this is something that's coming fresh to America? Most American restaurants seem to try and hustle you out, not invite you to stay for another meal.