[Cafe × ____] Recommended cafe concept ideas for a school cultural festival
When setting up a booth at a school or cultural festival, a café is highly recommended.
It’s popular and you can create originality by combining various concepts.
However, when you actually start discussing what kind of café to make, you might find it surprisingly hard to come up with ideas—or you might end up with too many to choose from.
So in this article, we’ll introduce a whole range of café concepts perfect for cultural festivals.
Try launching a café with a concept that no other class or group is doing, and make sure to delight all your visitors!
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[Cafe × ____] Recommended cafe concept ideas for a school culture festival (1–10)
A retro-style classic kissaten (traditional Japanese coffee shop)
Originally, the term “jun-kissa” referred to a purely non-alcoholic coffee shop.
However, in recent years it’s increasingly been used with the nuance of “a genuine café with a retro atmosphere that attracts true coffee aficionados.” So how about opening a café themed around that retro, authentic jun-kissa vibe? You could play slightly old-school jazz as background music, use indirect lighting… It might also be nice to serve nostalgic items like firm, old-fashioned custard pudding.
Give it some thought and create a one-of-a-kind jun-kissa of your own!
Fantasy Cafe
Another recommendation is a fantasy-themed café that combines the currently popular quizzes and puzzles with a fantasy world.
It’s fine to draw the fantasy elements from the worlds of Harry Potter or Alice in Wonderland! When serving drinks at the café, adding a small puzzle will boost that school-festival excitement.
If customers can’t crack the code on the cookie box and can’t eat the cookies unless they solve it, it’s sure to fire everyone up.
For simple puzzles, refer to books on riddles and puzzle-solving.
Vampire Cafe
When you hear “kyuketsuki” (vampire), it can sound scary, but “vampire” also has a somewhat stylish ring to it.
Whether it’s a haunted-house-style scary vampire or a pop, playful vampire, either way it seems like it would make for a buzzworthy café.
If the image of vampires doesn’t quite come together, works like the anime Vampire Hunter D or Van Helsing could offer some hints.
A menu staple would be a drink using tomato juice to resemble blood.
Cakes shaped like eyeballs or red puddings modeled after a heart might be good too—even if they’re just unsettling enough to make you squirm a little.
[Cafe × ___] Recommended Cafe Concept Ideas for a School Culture Festival (11–20)
Local production for local consumption cafe
How about a farm-to-table café that cooks with vegetables and other ingredients grown in your own area? It’s recommended both as an initiative mindful of environmental issues and the SDGs, and simply as a way to support your local community.
It can also be educational—learning things like “What specialties does this place have?” and “Why have they been produced here?” In towns with roadside stations, it’s especially easy to find local products.
You could even try negotiating directly with farmers to see if they’ll sell you ingredients.
Puzzle-solving cafe
In recent years, there’s been a trend of creating content that combines puzzles with various other elements.
So how about combining puzzles with a cafe to create a “Puzzle Cafe”? For example, the cafe’s interior and menu could hide puzzles that customers solve as they go.
You could set up a specific worldbuilding theme or story and design puzzles to match it.
Alternatively, it might be fun if solving the puzzles deepens people’s understanding of cafes, coffee, or school.
Haunted House Cafe
Serve eerily grotesque-looking foods and have ghosts wait on customers… Even though you’ll feel chills down your spine, you’ll somehow end up feeling warm and fuzzy—so let’s try running a haunted house café.
Keep the room dim with spooky décor, and pay special attention to the costumes.
Even ordinary drinks can look like suspicious concoctions if you serve them in, say, a lab beaker.
With a series of small, clever touches, you can turn it into a high-quality haunted house café.
Angel and Demon Cafe
https://www.tiktok.com/@angel_and_devil32/video/7360639050593684752Do you know the angel-and-devil images that stirred up the internet a little while ago? Of course, they weren’t real angels or devils—it was an image contrasting actress Kanna Hashimoto styled as an angel and talent Ano-chan styled as a devil.
How about a concept café that uses those opposing angel-and-devil themes? For the angel side, you could center the menu around white, and for the devil side, focus on black, really emphasizing the contrast to make it easy to develop lots of items.
Cute white angel outfits and cool black devil outfits—both would probably be very popular!