Taiwanese Cafe Prints Your Portrait on a Cup of Coffee

Well hey there! How the heck are you? Traffic in cyberspace horrendous today? Too much cyber lane changing and what have you? I'm glad you dropped in for a quick visit. Just in time for a  virtual treat and a coffee with your own face in the froth. Say what?

Imagine being able to drink your own face. Taiwanese cafe chain, Let’s Cafe, uses a special latte printer that creates portraits of customers directly on their delicious caffeinated drinks.

Let’s Cafe is a chain of small kiosks offering “fast but good coffee” to shoppers on the go all around Taiwan. Faced with the challenge of competing with larger more established cafe chains, they had to come up with a truly original gimmick in order to attract customers. Let’s Cafe needed something not even big players like Starbucks could compete with, and they found it in the ridiculously accurate coffee printing machine. 

All users have to do is upload a photo from their mobile phone to the coffee dispenser machine and after the cup has been filled with the caffeinated beverage of their choice, the incorporated printer uses edible ink to sprinkle their photo on the milk foam. 

While talented latte artists do a great job of creating beautiful designs using rudimentary tools and a steady hand, there are certain limitations to their techniques, whereas this coffee printer is able to produce photo-realistic images.

Ho boy...I can see this spawning into all kinds of weird stuff, can't you? Why stop at portraits? Print your 'ex' on there so you can 'eat the '&$*!' or how about a picture of your cat or dog. Or how about the ability to order a coffee for someone else with a photo of 'your' choice. Or...print your phone number and send it in a coffee to the cutie sitting all alone in the corner of the cafe!

The mind boggles...

See ya, eh!

Bob