The Blue Bottle Coffee kiosk beneath my architecture office is constantly busy, sometimes with lines exceeding 30 minutes in our Hayes Valley back alley. This morning as I approached our front door, I notices a new street addition across the street. Desiring more table space to set his drink, one of the regular customers took matters into his own hands. Across the street there have been two metal poles that sand about 40″ tall, the kind normally reserved for protecting building from people backing into them in a car. This clever customer decided that one of the poles would be the base for his new mobile table, seen in the photograph above. His plan is to bring it over to Blue Bottle everyday when he gets his coffee. His table top takes advantage of the sunny side of the street, where customers often just lean against a wall while drinking there morning coffee.
