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[Cafe × ___] Perfect for school festivals! A collection of cafe concept ideas

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!

[Cafe × ___] Perfect for school festivals! A collection of cafe concept ideas (31–40)

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!

Vampire Cafe

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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.

cat café

When people hear “○○ café,” the first thing that often comes to mind is a cat café.

Many of you probably know this already, but it’s a place where you can enjoy food and drinks while watching or interacting with cats.

Gathering cats on your own can be challenging, but if you use a mobile (pop-up) cat café service, it should be relatively easy to set up.

Consider this option while checking the rules of the mobile cat café and your school.

Incidentally, some businesses can even set up a cat café outdoors.

Hammock Cafe

We also recommend the unique idea of using hammocks for customer seating! A place where people can sway gently in a hammock and spend time at their leisure is likely to become popular as a relaxing, soothing space.

Playing healing music, the sound of a babbling brook, or a crackling campfire as background music can make it even more comfortable.

However, when installing hammocks, be sure to prioritize safety and secure them so the entire setup remains stable even when someone is lying down and rocking.

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!

[Cafe × ___] Perfect for school festivals! A collection of cafe concept ideas (41–50)

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.

Original Drink

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Offering original drinks at the school festival sounds like a great way to stand out from other booths and build excitement! First, let’s decide what kind of drinks you want to make.

Choosing the flavor profile, whether to include ice, and how to decorate them will make it easier to finalize the menu—highly recommended.

Also decide how many types of original drinks you’ll offer.

Preparing both hot and iced options to match the season will likely boost popularity.

Definitely give it a try!