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Diligence Café, or "D-Caf," is the definitely the cafe for the "always sleepy."
It's found at Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, and it's like no other coffee shop because it welcomes anyone, especially students and professionals, who need a work space in a relaxed, sleep friendly and shower-loving nook.
For only a P60 per hour, or P350 per day, a customer gets unlimited juice or coffee and power supply, Wi-Fi connection, and a shower service — indeed a chill extension of your home
D-Caf used to offer snacks and desserts but now it has full meals for those staying the whole night. They also serve brewed coffee from our most-loved Benguet farmers.
"We want people who come here to maximize value of their money and time," says 24-year-old Elmerei Cuevas, who runs D-Caf with business partner Anna Lorraine Uy, in an interview of Inquirer
"This is not a place to chill. This is a place for people who are driven, people who want to excel, people who work on their dreams," adds Cuevas, a Materials Engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
With eight employees, Cuevas says the challenge is to make the business sustainable in three months. At the start, he admits that the idea to charge an entrance fee sounded risky—because customers may not like to be "timed."
However, he stands firm with his goal that, "those who really who want to finish something and not be idle" — would come in the restaurant. He wants people to think of D-Caf as **"a place where students thought of their goals and worked on them—where graduates could look back and say that the café was part of their success… that this is a place where dreams come true."**
