Scott,

It does not matter if you are a coffee shop, book store or a fine restaurant, you can benefit from Wi-Fi. Do you decide to leave your cell phone at home just because you are going to a fine restaurant rather than a fast food joint? Perhaps some people do. But, I believe most people who are mobile in business are going to want to take their cell phone with them wherever they go. Why do you think it is that mobile phones have allowed for Skype software that is free to be installed on them? It is because the public wants the cost-saving alternative. Even the maker of the cell phone realizes that having Skype on the phone helps to sell more phones. When I purchased my Nokia N810, guess what I discovered? Skype was pre-installed. I did not have to put the software on the phone. Nokia put it there for me.

In addition, a smart restaurant owner - and I assume New York City has a lot of smart restaurant owners - can do more with Wi-Fi than simply allow for VOIP calls in the restaurant. A smart restaurant owner can showcase his own food network via a Wi-Fi digital photo frame in the restaurant. This includes not only video and slides, but a scrolling RSS news feed. In fact, numerous Wi-Fi digital frames can be remotely programmed for free using The Frame Channel.

If the fine restaurant happens to have a large dining room that works as a conference room, a large HDTV can easily convert to video monitor and be used to show slides, video or do a video conference via Skype.

Yes, Wi-Fi works for any restaurant - large or small. Wi-Fi can be viral and provide a mutual uplift. If there is any city on this planet that is filled with FREE Wi-Fi restaurants, it should be New York City. If I am mistaken, then New York City is "the land of opportunity" for Wi-Fi entrepreneurs.

Lamar Morgan
CDMM - Synergistic Business Marketing
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