My Office at Panera

I have had a number of business meetings at Panera.  When I meet at Panera, I notice that there are a lot of business meetings going on.  In fact, I have noticed the same people can be there multiple times.  I have speculated that Panera bread is the office for a lot of people.  Panera has long had a policy of free Internet and I think that enters into it.  Starbucks used to charge for Internet, but now they give it away as does McDonalds.  I have seen people who get a cup of coffee and then spend hours using the Internet at Panera.  I noticed most recently that Panera has instituted a policy where you are limited to a half hour during peak times.  This is to avoid situations where at lunch you can’t find a table because free-loaders like this are monopolizing the tables.  If you are Panera, you can gently encourage, but then do you really need a big guy to act as a bouncer and forcibly evict these free-loaders?  After all, Panera does not make money on these people.  They don’t trusting that most people recognize that Panera is not the library.