Author Topic: Cosplay Cafe?!?!? Would anyone want one here in Portland?!?! (Read 53189 times)

u2205 · « **on:** January 12, 2007, 05:54:59 pm »

Some of my friends and I are thinking of starting a Cosplay Cafe. It would be your regular coffee shop accept that you'd be served in people in Cosplay.

We would also have other things like a gamer room. It would be filled with "gaming computers" X-Boxes and other consoles. We would also have anime viewing nights where we would pick an Anime and stay up all hours watching the whole series!

Just wanted to get some input!

Thanks,
PK (AKA Mr_Mustash)

Daidouji · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2007, 05:59:32 pm »

OMGeez! I don't live in portland, but i'm close by and i'd come as often as possible! Along with all my anime friends! That's funny a friend of mine and I were thinking about having one wherever we are living after highschool or college. But that sounds really fun!

pieisexactlythree · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2007, 06:00:49 pm »

Sounds great, but thumbs down to the video games - they will attract teenagers. I'm kind of afraid of them.

totemo_oishii · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2007, 06:07:30 pm »

i vote yes - sounds like a fun idea.

Hazuza · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2007, 07:27:12 pm »

I love you o_o

YES! OMGYES!

I'd definitely come

It'd be the perfect place for me to meet up with some of my friends~

BoredHorror · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2007, 07:38:19 pm »

Quote from: "pieisexactlythree"

Sounds great, but thumbs down to the video games - they will attract teenagers. I'm kind of afraid of them.

lol, i think cosplaying+coffee+anime will attract teenagers anyway. I'm 16 and I would go with my friends

Hazuza · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2007, 08:07:23 pm »

hum... I'm only 13

But I won't be a hassle! I promise!!

Daidouji · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2007, 10:06:22 pm »

Only 15 here...but...but i will be polite.

Vondan · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2007, 10:11:28 pm »

yeah go for it and have Senior night ware every one is 30 to 40.

I want to open a nerd cafee ware all the tables look like R2D2 with the serving trey and the waitresses are dresses like Uhura from Star Trek. A room for video games and one for RPG games.

wasent there some one talking about this in portland a few months ago and some one called Animeshop girl in seattle wanted to open one

totemo_oishii · « **Reply #9 on:** January 12, 2007, 10:18:38 pm »

yeah, i hear it's open but i've never been there.
here's a link to their myspace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=87669163

reppy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2007, 01:03:06 am »

Quote from: "Vondan"

yeah go for it and have Senior night ware every one is 30 to 40.

I want to open a nerd cafee ware all the tables look like R2D2 with the serving trey and the waitresses are dresses like Uhura from Star Trek. A room for video games and one for RPG games.

"This is our Dungeons and Dragons room."

Vondan · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2007, 01:46:42 am »

Quote from: "reppy"

Quote from: "Vondan"
yeah go for it and have Senior night ware every one is 30 to 40.

I want to open a nerd cafee ware all the tables look like R2D2 with the serving trey and the waitresses are dresses like Uhura from Star Trek. A room for video games and one for RPG games.

"This is our Dungeons and Dragons room."

Yes and for the gaming table I want the 12 by 5 foot 3 inch thick granett slate they had on display at Jerry hardware it still had roughed out edges but an almost mirror polish and would look Quatro Cool (thats one more then trey) on a rough timber frame.

pieisexactlythree · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2007, 12:45:46 pm »

Quote from: "reppy"

"This is our Dungeons and Dragons room."

What part of your parents' house is that located in?

The Night Bringer · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2007, 02:15:28 am »

How do I sign up? I would love to work at a place like that.

Disco Pete · « **Reply #14 on:** January 15, 2007, 04:19:08 am »

Well, I wouldn't be a regular (I don't go down to Portland that often), but I would check it out and if I liked it, maybe make a point of stopping in when I AM in the city.

Sounds like a fun idea.

Kayoe · « **Reply #15 on:** January 15, 2007, 10:00:42 am »

Quote from: "pieisexactlythree"

Quote from: "reppy"
"This is our Dungeons and Dragons room."

What part of your parents' house is that located in?

The Basement.

But honestly a cosplay café in Portland sounds fairly cool!
I'm not a coffee drinker, (I Know and I live in the Northwest too!)
But I would definitely have to check it out!

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #16 on:** January 15, 2007, 11:44:54 am »

that sounds fun. You cannot be scared of teenagers now..If they go and hang out at a anime cafe they are probobly harmless.
I would go..I would want to work there...and have everyone see me..Cause I am too cute..and obviously into myself. XD

superjaz · « **Reply #17 on:** January 15, 2007, 11:57:00 am »

it would be fun, i'd hope you's serve thing other then coffie cuz lots of people no like

Kayoe · « **Reply #18 on:** January 15, 2007, 01:12:18 pm »

The more I hear about it the cooler it sounds!
As for the location, it probably would be better for business to put it in a more populated area (although I’m not sure if it would be enough to cover the higher rent cost), but I think somewhere kind of out of the way would have a nice feel to it.
So I think it will be cool no matter where you put it, so long as I can get there! :mrgreen:

TomtheFanboy · « **Reply #19 on:** January 15, 2007, 02:23:40 pm »

Most of the Asian community in Portland is moving out of Chinatown and over the 82nd avenue. I've seen some evidence of this and read about a lot more. I think that it wuould be great for you guys to get one of the shops in the Fubon shopping center.

I would visit on a regular basis if it was open late enough. My friends and I are nightowls and they all drink coffee.

If you make sure to have a wide selection of tea then I'm sure you'll do well.

I can actually imagine having a deal with certain distributors to have their characters be the ones serving. You could actually arrange it so that there was a set of costumes for each week or so, like FMA Tues-Thurs, Naruto Friday and Saturday, Ouran on sundays, etc.

Edit: Side note I forgot to mention. My favorite webcomic, Conscrew, just started a new storyline about starting up a restaurant! Here is the beginning of the story!
http://www.conscrew.com/index.php?strip_id=769

There's two sides to the venture of course. Getting a coffee shop, and then getting the rights/materials/people for the costumes.

Lit_of_Fey · « **Reply #20 on:** January 18, 2007, 09:26:16 am »

Wow you're very ambitious!

I would definitely bike to it from PSU, lol all my money would go to there X3.
I would work there too!

!!!
for some reason I'm imagining anime characters on roller skates. Lol "Raito! come back!!!"

Ruriko · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2007, 01:07:51 am »

Oh my goodness~ I'm so glad somebody else wanted to do this too. ^_^ We are wanting to do something of the Maid Cafe / Ridiculously-cute-bakery theme. I think that it would be hard to do on its own, but maybe we could go in together and do something together? ^_^

Plug:: http://www.myspace.com/nekopanbakery ::pluG

I would love to get together and talk shop!! PM me and let's scheme.

-j

Flatline · « **Reply #22 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:50:51 pm »

Cosplay Cafe + Portland = Epic Win. I'd give money to that place. My humble request is catgirl maids/schoolgirls/lolitas that are heavily armed.

Keenon Williams · « **Reply #23 on:** February 07, 2007, 11:49:51 pm »

Hey, a cosplay cafe in Portland, that idea would rock!

Would there be waitresses dressed in Anna Miller's uniforms? *kitty face* (Look it up.)

Pie Row Maniac · « **Reply #24 on:** February 08, 2007, 10:32:09 am »

Serving caffinated beverages to an otaku while dressed up as hot schoolgirl. What could possibly go wrong

The idea is interesting and I'd definitely go out of my way to see it. I just wonder how long it'd be able to stay in business, considering the amount of money and effort it would take to keep the cosplay angle going with things like specialized laundry for certain fabrics and having to deal with the costumes themselves for the employees.

None the less, it sounds fun

makichan · « **Reply #25 on:** February 17, 2007, 09:28:24 pm »

heck yes!
I'm moving to portland next Fall... do you know how great it would be to have a cosplay cafe?!?!?! I could meet other cosplayers such as myself! It could be a great way to bring all of us even closer together~*
LUUUURVE HAHAHA!

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #26 on:** February 18, 2007, 06:03:24 pm »

Yeah, uniforms and such would cost how much?
But I would definitly want to work there! lolx

superjaz · « **Reply #27 on:** February 18, 2007, 10:48:39 pm »

i would like to see this acutaly happen some time because over the years this is the 3rd or 4th time this idea has poped up and yet no cafe

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #28 on:** February 19, 2007, 12:38:33 pm »

yeah this sounds dagerously like a nerdier backspace.

i think something like that would have the potential of working in portland. you would probably be better off with not going all out cosplay (real characters) and going with cute uniforms, and maybe doing a thing like catgirl fridays or something.

the location would be key. but i would stay the hell away from 82nd area, no one goes over there, and while you might get some very specific people who know its over there buissness, ou wouldn't get any reputable walk by traffic. you need a local with lots of walk by, somewhere in the belmont area or just a busy part of close in se would be advisable (if not down town) ive seen a couple of lots openin up recently. in fact there is one of those new gray percelle buildings going in on like...26th and devision. right kitty corner form a neiborhood sushi place. i think you wouldent want to deck it out so bad that it would be off putting to "normal" people. get the kitch goin, lots of old movie posters and toys and crap on the walls. and youd have a place that people would come for. also, the nearer you are to a high school the better, lunch rush, after school etc.

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #29 on:** February 19, 2007, 12:57:48 pm »

yeah an all out cosplay seems...iunno the wprd,but I agree with Pinku.
for waitresses be cat girls, or bunny or something? possibly a choice?
and Yes Jaz is right, this idea has come up a few times in thepast and it just dissapeared, and idea was all it was.
How would you plan out the uniforms? Like the cost and who is going to make them? So does this mean the employee must pay the intire 'who knows how much' cost for the uniform?
Also, Are all uniforms going tolook the same? I think they should.but be different in a way, like each waitress have a different color or color scheme? Kinda like a Tokyo Mew Mew thing? (still talkin' about colors)
You are also going to want something flashy, what I am imagining is kinda like a place for boba? But thatseems alittle...kinda over done?
a place that is 'different' catches many peoples' eyes. Not just an idea, the look matters by ALOT. Like clothing, people pay attention to brand, but no matter who it is by, if it is ugly,boring, or plain, they are not going to buy it. So maybe be white( like a PURE white) and bright colors? Clears and translucents, weird lookin' lights? lolx

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #30 on:** February 19, 2007, 01:25:52 pm »

exsactly,

and i mean, as far as the uniforms go, i mean if this really came about, i would make them for material cost and free coffies.

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #31 on:** February 19, 2007, 02:13:32 pm »

yeah,

i say if youre serious about this go for it. small buissness loan this thing into exsistence. pick a roaster, look into used apliances, get a buissness licence. all thiese things are far more accessable than people think.

Flatline · « **Reply #32 on:** February 19, 2007, 02:20:13 pm »

Quote from: "Mr_Mustash"

I was thinking about the 82nd area, but a few of my friends also told me not to go there. So my options are still open.

Yeah, 82nd is a really, REALLY bad place for anything nerd related. It's pretty much a trash hole once you go far down enough on either end. Really just a bad place. Not the right people either. I always thought Hawthorne would be a great place for this.

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #33 on:** February 19, 2007, 03:13:00 pm »

yaya. Hmm how much would the uniforms be approximetly and such.
Also a design for the uniforms, so many types of uniforms *0*
I really do hope that this goes through , sounds phunn.
Location has ALOT to do with it.so be careful. lolx

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #34 on:** February 19, 2007, 03:16:47 pm »

i agree entirely, anything in the clinton to stark neighborhood would be infinitely better than 82...full of..unsavory characters.

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #35 on:** February 19, 2007, 03:26:37 pm »

And avoid Killlingsworth and Albina lolx

pieisexactlythree · « **Reply #36 on:** February 19, 2007, 03:28:39 pm »

I expect a retail space such as that would go for at least $16-$20/sf/year on a triple-net lease arrangement. Therefore the space alone would end up costing at least $32-40,000 annually, and would likely edge closer to $50,000 when utilities, insurance, and taxes are included. Then there'd be the overhead of running a business. Do you think such a business could earn about $7,500+ in gross receipts per month? I'm guessing this is the minimum it would take for the project to succeed.

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #37 on:** February 19, 2007, 03:33:34 pm »

I think thiscafe could make alot of money acually, and be okae'. You just need to pin point intrest of many people, not just otaku and such. So again, appearance is VERY important. and advertising can be easy.

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #38 on:** February 19, 2007, 03:44:40 pm »

the profit margin on coffee is extremly high, you get some decent barristas and youll get alot of walk in traffic pretty much anywhere in portland. people will generally go the the coffie shop closest. and if the place has wifi and good tables even better, especially if something makes it different from the other 15 cafes in a one mile radius. also if its open later than most places.

there arent many hang out places in portland for the 18-20 crowd. i remember when i had just graduated from highschool there were like 3 places in town we could go to after 9. the hotcake house, the fireside, the pied cow (which for about a year was 21 and over in the garden, which pissed us off), and like...the park. im over 21 now but i still feel that there should be more safe things for that age group to do at night.

and a place like this would be poised to cater to that buissness, especially in the summer.

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #39 on:** February 19, 2007, 04:20:38 pm »

yesh late nights are a good thing lolx

totemo_oishii · « **Reply #40 on:** February 19, 2007, 05:35:55 pm »

that is so awesome! you're very good at planning things out. ^_^ go you!! i'll definately be one of your first (and perhaps best) customers!

Vondan · « **Reply #41 on:** February 19, 2007, 07:18:25 pm »

And don't forget on the week end no cover charge for girls...with glasses

xRIxKUx · « **Reply #42 on:** February 19, 2007, 07:40:52 pm »

Then it seems you are getting somewhere!
What are your ideas about uniforms?

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #43 on:** February 20, 2007, 01:04:50 am »

you sound surprizingly on top of this. most of the time when a post like this happens its someone just makin **** up and nothing would come of it.

im serious about those uniforms though.

TomtheFanboy · « **Reply #44 on:** February 20, 2007, 08:45:07 am »

Since my mom is the co-owner..... I would like to suggest you contact Oregon Coffee Roasters when it comes to your coffee needs. The company is based in North Plains and services coffee shops all throughout the Portland Area.

pinkrandomattack · « **Reply #45 on:** February 20, 2007, 04:24:36 pm »

awe man, thats vital information. are you graduating this year, and this is lie your after school plan?

Vondan · « **Reply #46 on:** February 20, 2007, 04:49:28 pm »

Quote from: "Mr_Mustash"

Yah, i'm graduating early from my highschool and then taking 2 classes at PCC next year to get my High School Degree.

But even though i'm young, i'm ambitious and would LOVE to get this project off the ground.

we all know it's about surounding yourself with a staff of anime Maids

totemo_oishii · « **Reply #47 on:** February 20, 2007, 05:12:32 pm »

questions :

- do you have a name for it? or is it just going to be 'cosplay cafe'?
- ...would you hire me? XD

Vondan · « **Reply #48 on:** February 20, 2007, 05:29:29 pm »

Quote from: "totemo_oishii"

questions :

- do you have a name for it? or is it just going to be 'cosplay cafe'?
- ...would you hire me? XD

wants an esscuse to wear her Azumanga Daioh waitress outfit every day

totemo_oishii · « **Reply #49 on:** February 20, 2007, 05:34:06 pm »

*jumps for joy!*

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Author Topic: Cosplay Cafe?!?!? Would anyone want one here in Portland?!?! (Read 53189 times)

u2205