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--- public_diet [2008-07-15 15:48] – katerich
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-**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, from autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods and develop protocols for HTTP refreshment service, in line with the other public communications of the gallery. This research emerges from an interest in the public diet of cultural organisations where foods for thought and consumption might crossover; and includes testing the regulatory limits and social expectations for a cafe, as well as preparing the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. **
+**feasability study for sustained sustenance: installing a Feral Trade Cafe at HTTP gallery, London UK, autumn/winter 2008. A platform to present feral trade goods and develop protocols for HTTP refreshment service, in line with the other public communications of the gallery. This research emerges from an interest in the public diet of cultural organisations where foods for thought and consumption might crossover; and includes testing the regulatory limits and social expectations for a cafe, as well as preparing the resources, human and otherwise, required to run it. **
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 Currently Ale (Furtherfield administration and coordination) does Fri-Sat; Sundays they hire an invigilator.
-Hazards: At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity?
+Hazards: The main anticipated hazard is success, with too many customers impacting staffing.
+At what scale would the cafe interfere with other office activity?
     * roles for cafe.
 **Service:** preparation, waiting, cash-taking.
-Cafe service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel,
+Service role would be rotated amongst present core personnel,
 this kind of distributed culture is integral to the way Furtherfield works as a group.
 http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php
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 At a minimum, tables, chairs, umbrellas and signage to communicate cafe presence to the nighbourhood.
-The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area. HTTP to sound the landlord out on this between rent payments,
+The decking along the side of HTTP building is potential cafe seating area, although in terms of afternoon sun gets a total eclipse. HTTP to sound the landlord out on decking between rent payments,
 Landlord relations are distantly friendly. There is a janitor who keeps a close eye
 on the compound. If landlord rejects decking plans, the parking spaces in front are
-formally HTTP's, included in their rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally (on the decking). Decking receives no afternoon sun, another reason  to look at occupying parking.
+formally HTTP's, included in their rent. Cafe could serve from here with guests seating themselves informally (on the decking). Afternoon sun is another reason to occupy parking spaces.
     Liability would need to be thought through or ignored.
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   * other models (positive and negative)
-    Cafe Kino http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm, Bristol.
+    Cafe Kino http://www.cafe-kino.com/about/index.htm, Bristol. ((Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop & Gallery over the road.
-    Run by a collective of artists etc who also run the Here Shop & Gallery over the road.
+Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from
-    Many of their customers are from their extended social networks, probably from
+within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,
-    within a few blocks radius. People go there for the sociability, decor, wifi,
+good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social
-    good tea/coffee, cultural contagion plus pleasure of investing in own social
+networks.))
-    networks.
-    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. Expensive bespoke groceries / cafe, review covers the for &
+    Leila's Shop, Shoreditch. ((Expensive bespoke groceries europe-themed cafe, review covers the for & againsts: http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html))
-    againsts: http://londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com/2008/04/leilas-shop-shoreditch.html
 ===== HTTP structure  =====
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 [[uk_premises_regulations]]
-    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project.
     Use existing regulations as a template/ jelly mould for evasion or compliance.
+    Produce a Regulatory reading menu as research project.
 http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=jello+mold&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
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    * Stock Options
-All menu items should be also available in bulk, where possible.
+All menu items should be also available to buy as take-home groceries, where possible.
 Stock selection will involve a biodiversity of criteria, none of which should be primary or exclusionary. Considerations include:
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   * Information
-Ingredients and products with questionable ethics can be included on the menu, along with  their product information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and purity fetishes (eg. the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products); or the homogenous landscape of happy farmers that Fair Trade propagates ((an image set that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm)) http://feraltrade.org/fair;
+Ingredients and products with questionable or complex ethics should be included on the menu, along with  their product information. The main thing is to expand the product monologue beyond simple boasting and purity fetishes (eg. the truth claims, elevated origins and destinies - gourmet, organic, health - promoted by fresh and wild style packaging http://feraltrade.org/research/righteous_products); or the homogenous landscape of happy farmers that Fair Trade propagates ((an image set that reverses earlier breaks with tradition in visualising agriculture labour as a statement on rural poverty as opposed to example of pastoral virtue. See Gleaning, François Millet 1857 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~waste/timeline/story-pic1.htm)) http://feraltrade.org/fair;
 to articulate a broader picture of the world the product moves through.
 [[tea_from_bangladesh]] for example.
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       - Cola from Bristol.
       - Salt from Gujarat
-      - Zaytoun olive oil and other products http://zaytoun.org / local distributors at http://www.zaytoun.org/index.php/sellers/#London
+      - Zaytoun olive oil and other products
+http://zaytoun.org / local distributors at http://www.zaytoun.org/index.php/sellers/#London
    * Other organisational contenders