FoodQuart aka Food Court
Why should all the old timers at Tim Hortons get to take the corner table, or the millennial-laptopistans working on their startup/onlinemagazien/poetry/ LaneyGossip reading while the rest of us schlubs wander around like a Roomba looking for a place to sit and have lunch?
That’s why today I’m launching FoodQuart as a competitor to WeWork and every other co-working space in town. Best of all I won’t need to build any office space for this I just have to partner with @Brookfield_BPY or @westbankcorp to get going once I get some funding from local Burghermisters @oneeleven_111 or @GVteam lined up.
By 9:15am every workday, after the finance bros are done their Starbucks run the whole damn food court empties out until 11:30am when the early am office-workers-with-kids-in- daycare-worried-about-pickup- time roll on down for early lunch. By 2pm everyone’s fed and watered and headed back up to their cubicle on the 43rd floor to process some more account forms. Then that’s basically it until the next day. Thousands of food court seats empty the bulk of the day…
What if…. OK, here’s the deal. It’s co-working space after 9:15am. You get wifi, direct print from the local Print Three shop, we run some talks w guest speakers, bring in some banking, legal and start-up folks. And then at 11:30 am everyone get’s the hell out so people can eat their lunch at a table! Back at 2pm until you can’t stay any later (fine lets kick everyone out at 8pm so the mall cops can go home).
FoodQuart members pay a small monthly fee for any food court they want to use. Each FoodQuart location has a Community Manager to help everyone out and program their site. Instead of one or two or six co-working spaces, we’d have DOZENS!, each that could develop their own clientele and specialization. FoodQuart would invest seed funding in the most promising startup.
If WeWork is valued at $42 billion, surely we can get a slice of that.
Why should all the old timers at Tim Hortons get to take the corner table, or the millennial-laptopistans working on their startup/onlinemagazien/poetry/
That’s why today I’m launching FoodQuart as a competitor to WeWork and every other co-working space in town. Best of all I won’t need to build any office space for this I just have to partner with @Brookfield_BPY or @westbankcorp to get going once I get some funding from local Burghermisters @oneeleven_111 or @GVteam lined up.
By 9:15am every workday, after the finance bros are done their Starbucks run the whole damn food court empties out until 11:30am when the early am office-workers-with-kids-in-
What if…. OK, here’s the deal. It’s co-working space after 9:15am. You get wifi, direct print from the local Print Three shop, we run some talks w guest speakers, bring in some banking, legal and start-up folks. And then at 11:30 am everyone get’s the hell out so people can eat their lunch at a table! Back at 2pm until you can’t stay any later (fine lets kick everyone out at 8pm so the mall cops can go home).
FoodQuart members pay a small monthly fee for any food court they want to use. Each FoodQuart location has a Community Manager to help everyone out and program their site. Instead of one or two or six co-working spaces, we’d have DOZENS!, each that could develop their own clientele and specialization. FoodQuart would invest seed funding in the most promising startup.
If WeWork is valued at $42 billion, surely we can get a slice of that.

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