Quirky cafés are all the rage lately and Manchester’s latest addition charges you for the time you spend there, rather than your food and drink purchases.
Ziferblat, the Russian word for clockface, has launched on Edge Street and is described as a “new kind of social space”.
Instead of paying for individual drinks and snacks, you’re charged 5 pence a minute for the time you spend at the venue. Fresh coffee, varieties of tea, cakes and biscuits, cereal, juice and WiFi all come free of charge.
Visitors are welcome to work, study, relax or hold a meeting, and encouraged to treat it like their home.
The concept was originally founded in Moscow in 2011 and there are now 14 Ziferblats across Europe. The first UK site opened in London last year.
Ziferblat, First Floor, 23 Edge Street, Northern Quarter. Open 10am – 10pm.
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