[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 Café Concepts for a School Festival (21–30)
teahouse
Teahouses developed as a kind of rest stop from the medieval to the early modern period.
They were very simple places that served light tea and traditional sweets tailored to the orders of people who stopped by for a break.
Today, they’re being revisited as a cultural experience that conveys a distinctly Japanese atmosphere.
If you’re creating a teahouse-themed booth for a school festival, offering foods that evoke Japanese tradition—like matcha and dango—along with simple wooden chairs and tables to set the mood will likely catch people’s attention.
These days, room fragrances specializing in Japanese scents are also available, so just placing one can instantly create an authentic teahouse ambiance!
manga cafe
A manga café is a place where you can enjoy your favorite comics while sipping free drinks.
These days, you can find them in many locations, and more and more places offer spaces for computer work like teleworking or gaming, as well as amusements like karaoke and darts.
Why not try recreating a manga café for your school festival? Simply preparing a selection of manga for people to read is fine, and adding a dartboard for visitors to play will boost the amusement factor even more!
Coffee stand
A coffee stand with the simple goal of serving delicious coffee.
Unlike a café where you can relax and spend time inside while drinking, a coffee stand mainly focuses on takeout.
For a school festival, rather than coming up with an elaborate concept, it’s recommended to present it with a nuance like, “You can enjoy coffee that’s even tastier than at a regular café!” Prepare several varieties of high-quality coffee beans, and pay attention to the brewing methods as well—such as drip, press, or siphon.
Chant of the Eight Customer-Service Principles
https://www.tiktok.com/@sumire_qscs/video/7229627031716252929Let’s create a uniquely maid-themed atmosphere! Here are ideas for the Eight Customer Service Chants.
Many visitors to a maid café at a school festival are likely hoping to enjoy the distinctive world of maids.
With that in mind, use the “Eight Customer Service Chants” introduced in the video as a reference, and try arranging them to reflect your class’s unique character.
If your class has set an original name for the planned maid café, be sure to incorporate it creatively.
Gender-Swap Cafe
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The contrast from the usual is so much fun! Here are some ideas for a gender-swapped cafe.
When planning a maid café, many of you may be thinking about adding an extra theme.
This gender-swapped cafe concept is perfect for a class like that.
It’s unique to have male students wear long maid dresses to serve customers, while female students wear men’s suits or the boys’ school uniforms to serve.
Visitors are sure to get excited by looks you’d never see in everyday life!
Sparkling drinks to enjoy from the 100-yen shop
100-yen stores keep evolving day by day.
From everyday staple seasonings and stationery to clever gadgets that make life easier, these shops have become indispensable in our daily lives.
How about selling sparkling drinks using “aurora powder” sold at these 100-yen stores? This aurora syrup makes ordinary liquids glow gently like the aurora—it’s wonderfully mesmerizing.
It also caters perfectly to today’s photo-worthy trends! Be sure to offer plenty of color variations using shaved ice syrups and more!
Fluffy Iced Matcha Latte
People have been saying there’s a matcha boom for quite some time, but I feel like matcha is no longer just a trend—it’s becoming a part of Japanese culture.
What do you think? Convenience stores always carry new matcha-flavored sweets, right? So let’s aim to be the most popular booth at the school festival with a “Fluffy Iced Matcha Latte.” The basics are simple: mix frozen matcha with frothed milk.
Add store-bought matcha chocolate or matcha cream as toppings, and you’ll have a refreshing-looking matcha latte.
Even the time spent planning the menu sounds fun.