Foglifter Coffee Roasters — Restaurant in Vancouver

Your typical coffee shop with some limitations that prevents you from taking your precious time with your coffee. I understood from the signs in the front of the store that there is a one hour seating limit. There were also other signs posted throughout the store stating no Wi-fi between hours of 10am to 6pm on weekends and holidays to mitigate people from overextending their stay during peak-business hours. I was well aware of all these limitations before making a purchase and seating myself to work for the one hour time limit.

What I didn't appreciate was why a staff member approached our table, and only our table, to remind us that we had to leave in 20 minutes after being seated for only 30 minutes with our beverages. I might want to add that there were many tables throughout the café that were there before us and did not receive a friendly reminder.

I have visited many coffee shops along main street such as JJ bean, Café Mira, Parallel 49th, and Forecast, to name a few, and have had a much better customer service and overall experience.

I hope this review serves as a warning to those that do not want to receive a friendly warning and want to study or work undisturbed for an hour per their own policy.

Edit: In response to the owner, whom clearly missed out on the points of my review, there was a lady with headphones who sat with a tablet before us and were not approached by the friendly staff. And you contradicted yourself by saying that your staff generally don't ask people to leave, but yet your staff did so at the 30 minute mark of our alarm. Has the owner been to the libraries in our city during peak midterm season? Good luck...

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