Social Te Reo Only Cafe

[tyrael]

Inside Rotorua’s 'no English' cafe where only te reo Māori is spoken

Customers can use QR codes to hear and practise te reo phrases when ordering.

www.nzherald.co.nz

I think this is pretty cool. Would only work in certain cities and Rotovegas is one of them.

I hope that have enough capital because it might be slow going to start with, bottlenecks with non fluent speakers.

I hope it's still there when I finally get down there.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Ki to whakaaro ka taea e koe te korero i te reo e te tuakana? kei te tono pohehe ranei koe i tetahi aperol spritz?

 

[sup42]

It's interesting.

Plenty of māori won't go (shyness). But it could start a journey for others willing to make mistakes or just not know what is being said period.

Very french eh, a cafe where the staff "no speak le English".

Gonna take a lot of deft handling by the staff in regards to being inclusive and accessible. In that regard they have gone into a fair bit of thought (unlike a Cafe in Paris).

 

[Tookey 2.0]

It's interesting.

Plenty of Maori won't go (shyness). But it could start a journey for others willing to make mistakes or just not know what is being said period.

Very french eh, a cafe where the staff "no speak le English".

Gonna take a lot of deft handling by the staff in regards to being inclusive and accessible. In that regard they have gone into a fair bit of thought (unlike a Cafe in Paris).

Im able to pronounce Reo reasonably well and can say my pepeha, but I remember being quite concerned about getting it wrong, but ive been told by so many of the older generation that generally, māori are ao stoked that youre attempting their language that theyre lovely to you either way.

Maybe this place can be used for the first NZ Warriors Forum catch up

 

[Matiunz]

It's interesting.

Plenty of Maori won't go (shyness). But it could start a journey for others willing to make mistakes or just not know what is being said period.

Very french eh, a cafe where the staff "no speak le English".

Gonna take a lot of deft handling by the staff in regards to being inclusive and accessible. In that regard they have gone into a fair bit of thought (unlike a Cafe in Paris).

Could be a cool tourism thing too, “novelty” cafe in a tourist town. But your right inclusiveness and patience will help them succeed.
Funny the French stereotype, I’ve had 2 vastly different experiences in Paris, 1st time close to 20 years ago I was lucky if I got the “non anglais” -usually they’d just walk away. However if they found out you weren’t English things improved pretty quickly (NZ identifying went to all black chat pretty quick).
Visited post Olympics and it was night and day, more than happy to speak English and would often cut off my poor 3rd form French and just switch to English. Was told there had been a big campaign before the Paris olympics to try and be a bit more accomodating to tourists and it was certainly noticeable

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Wish any business owner the best. However with the razor thin hospitality margins, you have to hope that your theme attracts more customers than it repels.

 

[Rick O’Shay]

Could be a cool tourism thing too, “novelty” cafe in a tourist town. But your right inclusiveness and patience will help them succeed.
Funny the French stereotype, I’ve had 2 vastly different experiences in Paris, 1st time close to 20 years ago I was lucky if I got the “non anglais” -usually they’d just walk away. However if they found out you weren’t English things improved pretty quickly (NZ identifying went to all black chat pretty quick).
Visited post Olympics and it was night and day, more than happy to speak English and would often cut off my poor 3rd form French and just switch to English. Was told there had been a big campaign before the Paris olympics to try and be a bit more accomodating to tourists and it was certainly noticeable

Quebec can be worse than France. Shop staff speaking English when you go in and then Je Ne Parle Pas Anglaise

Rural France very few English speakers but with a bit of school French muscle memory and a lot of gesticulating you can get by.

Wish these people luck, and as Frank says, hospo is a tough gig at the moment. Although was at a Cat Cafe with the grandkids last week in the GC and it was packed. Prefer dogs myself

 

[tyrael]

Wish any business owner the best. However with the razor thin hospitality margins, you have to hope that your theme attracts more customers than it repels.

Reading the article it's more about passion and cultural identify. But I also said I hope that have capital because it'll be hard at the beginning.

They will create a core base. Those who won't go, will never go but I mean, those people are also living in a māori heavy rotorua (comparative to other cities).

 

[tyrael]

Quebec can be worse than France. Shop staff speaking English when you go in and then Je Ne Parle Pas Anglaise

Rural France very few English speakers but with a bit of school French muscle memory and a lot of gesticulating you can get by.

Wish these people luck, and as Frank says, hospo is a tough gig at the moment. Although was at a Cat Cafe with the grandkids last week in the GC and it was packed. Prefer dogs myself

Bulldogs? Phuk off

 

[WAH MAN]

It's interesting.

Plenty of Maori won't go (shyness). But it could start a journey for others willing to make mistakes or just not know what is being said period.

Very french eh, a cafe where the staff "no speak le English".

Gonna take a lot of deft handling by the staff in regards to being inclusive and accessible. In that regard they have gone into a fair bit of thought (unlike a Cafe in Paris).

It's interesting.

Plenty of Maori won't go (shyness). But it could start a journey for others willing to make mistakes or just not know what is being said period.

Very french eh, a cafe where the staff "no speak le English".

Gonna take a lot of deft handling by the staff in regards to being inclusive and accessible. In that regard they have gone into a fair bit of thought (unlike a Cafe in Paris).

Hapa mai, tika mai, me korero.

 

[WAH MAN]

Wish any business owner the best. However with the razor thin hospitality margins, you have to hope that your theme attracts more customers than it repels.

Yep it's tough in business right now if you have slim margins to start with.

We recently had Waterfall way closed for about two months and almost all businesses bled for that whole time

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Could be a cool tourism thing too, “novelty” cafe in a tourist town. But your right inclusiveness and patience will help them succeed.

You nailed it.

Being in tourism in Rotorua, the majority of customers will be non NZers and probably non English speakers there for the cultural aspect. Totally aimed at tourism.

Highly risky but I think it will actually do well if they market it right.

 

[Matiunz]

Quebec can be worse than France. Shop staff speaking English when you go in and then Je Ne Parle Pas Anglaise

Rural France very few English speakers but with a bit of school French muscle memory and a lot of gesticulating you can get by.

Wish these people luck, and as Frank says, hospo is a tough gig at the moment. Although was at a Cat Cafe with the grandkids last week in the GC and it was packed. Prefer dogs myself

Yeah it’s funny eh have heard French Canadians can be a bit elitist but ironically those people n France view them as the rednecks of the French world.
I remember being shocked during a similar thing in Denmark where the staff were speaking Danish but as soon as they realised I couldn’t understand them they switched to English and were really apologetic, to them talking so company couldn’t understand was considered rude.
Went to a few novelty cafes/Bars in Tokyo (Cat, Owl, penguin) and they were always quite busy

 

[Canadian_Warriors_Fan]

Yeah it’s funny eh have heard French Canadians can be a bit elitist but ironically those people n France view them as the rednecks of the French world.
I remember being shocked during a similar thing in Denmark where the staff were speaking Danish but as soon as they realised I couldn’t understand them they switched to English and were really apologetic, to them talking so company couldn’t understand was considered rude.
Went to a few novelty cafes/Bars in Tokyo (Cat, Owl, penguin) and they were always quite busy

Hard for me to say as I'm an French speaking Anglo but the tines I've to quebec city and spoke French it wasn't an issue.

 

[Rick O’Shay]

Hard for me to say as I'm an French speaking Anglo but the tines I've to quebec city and spoke French it wasn't an issue.

I was there in 75 when secession was a hot topic. There were also a few issues regarding flight controllers only speaking French and a lot pilots refusing to fly into Quebec. Glad to get back to Edmonton at the time.

Certainly a different place now and very cosmopolitan. I can understand the attitude between them and France. Same with the South Americans and Spain