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Article: Cyber cafe chain bans baseball caps Dress code move in bid to cut 'deviant behaviour' threat
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- December 19, 2005
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CUSTOMERS will be banned from some cyber cafes in Glasgow and
Edinburgh if they turn up wearing baseball caps.
The new dress code is being piloted in both cities by
easyInternetCafes, which offers customers access to a computer to
surf the web.
The chain was launched six years ago by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the
founder of the successful no-frills easyJet airline.
If the pilot scheme is successful, it will be introduced
throughout the chain's 41 UK cyber cafes.
Bosses at the cafe chain have become increasingly concerned
following recent thefts and claim the cap has become associated with
"deviant behaviour".
They also claim people wearing baseball caps make other customers
feel uneasy and are ...