Two British teens are hoping to revolutionize the coffee shop. After dropping out of school, 17-year-old James Anderson launched a tech education nonprofit that has been supported by some big names in tech. Now Anderson and his teenage co-founder are taking on a new venture: Space Lounges. This high tech coffee shop concept, which they outlined at 2014’s TedxTeen, models its design and services after Apple stores, in theory making “long queues, slow Wi-Fi, rude staff, pesky dated music” a thing of the past. Space Lounges will eliminate registers, instead allowing visitors to pay for food with their phones and order coffee through an app, which will learn to predict and suggest orders. A “social map” will help cultivate conversations and hanging out by displaying who is around the shop and their interests. (Recode)
