While Ms. Tang and the rest of the lonely hearts club flock to the do-it-yourself furniture shopfor its clean, homey environment, they pose something of a challenge for IKEA. They sit for hours in the cafeteria, leaving behind orange peels and egg shells they have picked off boiled eggs brought from home.
Legend has it that back in the Roaring Twenties when 1, 200 people would attend nightly dinner dances into the wee hours of the night, then descend on the coffee shopfor late breakfast, one asked executive chef Fred Schmidt to create something different.
"A shop or brand can have a profile at aka-aki and you could 'meet' a shop, or a shop could tell who is passing it every morning and maybe offer that person a voucher forsomething, or tell them when they have special offers, " he said.