The help prepares salads and sandwiches and steamy coffees behind a long bar. Everyone is very attentive. He's instructing them on how best to build Web pages on the space the ISP gives its subscribers. For that, a patron also can set up a free e-mail account and get 10 Mb of free space for a Web page. Couture is a Linux aficionado and his cafe hosts the San Francisco Linux Users' Group the first Saturday each month.
Couture asks with a grin.
Hell, nobody makes money with Internet cafes. He says he makes his real money consulting on cybercommunications projects for top corporate clients. The cafe is his love.