NYTimes: Offering Legal Advice and Lattes

Eight years ago, Mr. Hughes opened a cafe called Legal Grind in Santa Monica, Calif. Every weekday and Saturday afternoon, lawyers arrive at the cafe - which offers legal advice in addition to coffee - to make themselves available to customers for about 15 minutes for a $25 fee.

I'm thinking about copying this model for myself, selling lattes and philosophical services--tailor-made epistemologies, personal systems of ethics, individual identities for resistance and emancipation, that sort of thing.

I know what you're thinking: No one's going to pay $25 per quarter hour for that. And you're right. That's why I'm only going to charge 15 cents per hour for that stuff.

But let someone order a latte, and .... Woo, boy! Black gold. Seattle tea.